Anatoli Bashashkin

Anatoli Bashashkin
	Bashashkin heading away in a friendly between Moscow and Poland
Personal information
Full name	Anatoli Vasilyevich Bashashkin
Date of birth	23 February 1924
Place of birth	Reutov, Moscow Governorate, Soviet Union
Date of death	27 July 2002 (aged 78)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1946	DO Tbilisi
1947–1952	CDKA Moscow
1953	FC Spartak Moscow
1954–1958	CDSA Moscow
Total
International career
1952–1956	USSR
Managerial career
1976	FC Pakhtakor Tashkent
	Krasnaya Presnya Moscow
1981	FC Spartak Moscow (assistant)
Medal record
Representing Soviet Union
Men's Football
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anatoli Vasilyevich Bashashkin (Russian: Анатолий Васильевич Башашкин; 23 February 1924, Reutovo, Moscow Governorate, Russia – 27 July 2002, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian footballer in the 1940s and 1950s and a football coach later. He played as a central defender.

He was captain of the Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympics, but following their politically embarrassing defeat to Yugoslavia he was stripped of the captaincy.

In 1947–1953 Bashashkin was a member of the CDKA team that won four domestic titles in the 1940s and earlier 1950s (1947, 1948, 1950, 1951), but following the 1952 Olympics the team was disbanded by Joseph Stalin. After that he moved to Spartak Moscow in 1953. After Stalin's death he returned to CDKA (renamed CDSA at that time) in 1954 and played there until 1958. Bashashkin was part of the USSR team which won the 1956 Olympic football title.^[1] He won USSR Gold medals five times (four times with CDKA in 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951 and once with Spartak in 1953) and Soviet Cup three times (1948, 1951, 1955).

He was noted for his ability on the ball, physical strength and his long-range passing, which started countless counterattacks.

After retirement from football Bashashkin graduated from the

Pakhtakor Tashkent FK in 1976 and he was an assistant coach (under Konstantin Beskov) of FC Spartak Moscow in 1981. According to journalist Pavel Alyoshin, Bashashkin was not very successful as a coach, spending much time telling the players of the 1970s and 80s how inferior they were compared to the footballers of the 1950s.^[2]

References

^ "Anatoli Bashashkin". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
^ Collection of press-clippings related to Bashashkin (in Russian)

External links

Anatoli Bashashkin at National-Football-Teams.com

[1] "Anatoli Bashashkin". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 November 2021.

[Sbornaya-2] Collection of press-clippings related to Bashashkin (in Russian)

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