Vladimir Maslachenko

Vladimir Nikitovich Maslatschenko (Russian: Владимир Никитович Маслаченко, scientific transliteration Vladimir Nikitović Maslačenko; born March 5, 1936 in Wassylkiwka, † November 28, 2010 in Moscow) was a Soviet football player and long-time television commentator.

Club career

Maslatschenko played from 1953 to 1957 at Metalurg Dnipropetrovsk. 1957 changed the goalkeeper to Lokomotiv Moscow, where he won the Soviet Cup competition in the same year. After five years at Lok, he moved to Spartak Moscow in 1962 and was able to celebrate a league title and two cup wins.

International career

Maslatschenko participated in the European Football Championship in 1960 partly in France and won with the Soviet selecting the title, which he did not come to be used as spare man behind Lev Yashin. Also at the World Championships in 1958 and 1962, he was one each for Soviet squad, but remained equally without use.

After the active career

From the 1970s Maslatschenko was active as a sports commentator, first on radio and then in television, where he became one of the most famous commentators of the country. 1972/73 he worked as a coach in Chad.

Proverbs as a commentator (selection)

• Aiaiai! Are you agree with that?
• The third time Stoichkov meets the post and the third time with his head!
• The goalkeeper should come out now. Wonderful, he listens to the advice!
• For all cases the goalkeeper had got a fright.
• Robson falls in the penalty area. "Get up, my dear fellow ," Roberto Carlos told him.
• Sawitschew! Shoot! Shoot! I'm begging you! Goal, Goal, Goal!

Achievements

• European champion in 1960 with the Soviet Union
• 1 × Soviet champion: 1962
• 3 × Soviet Cup winner: 1957, 1963, 1965