Vitaliy Starukhin

Vitaliy Starukhin
Personal information
Full name Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin
Date of birth (1949-06-06)6 June 1949
Place of birth Minsk, Belarusian SSR
Date of death 9 August 2000(2000-08-09) (aged 51)
Place of death Donetsk, Ukraine
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1968–1971 SKA Odessa 56 (28)
1971–1972 Budivelnyk 24 (20)
1973–1981 Shakhtar Donetsk 217 (84)
Total 297 (132)
International career
1979 Soviet Union 1 (0)
Managerial career
1981–2000 Shakhtar (youth teams)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Vitaliy Starukhin's star on Shakhtar's Walk of Fame (Donetsk)

Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Ukrainian: Старухін, Виталій Володимирович; born 6 June 1949 in Minsk; died 9 August 2000) was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is considered by many fans to one be the greatest players to ever play for Shakhtar Donetsk.[1]

In 1979, he was awarded Player of the year award.[2] In 1979 Starukhin played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[3]

In 2011 Vitaly Starukhin, together with Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.[4]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Europe Super Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Shakhtar Donetsk 1973 28 10 3 3 0 0 0 0 31 13
1974 28 11 8 4 0 0 0 0 36 15
1975 25 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 9
1976 (s) 11 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 14 1
1976 (a) 10 4 0 0 5 2 0 0 15 6
1977 26 9 3 1 0 0 0 0 29 10
1978 25 7 9 4 2 0 0 0 36 11
1979 32 26 2 1 2 0 0 0 36 27
1980 21 5 8 7 2 1 0 0 31 13
1981 11 3 5 2 0 0 1 0 17 5
Total 217 84 41 23 11 3 1 0 270 110

Honours

Shakhtar Donetsk

  • Soviet Top League: runner-up 1975, 1979; bronze 1978
  • Soviet Cup: 1980

Individual

  • Soviet Top League top scorer: 1979 (26 goals)
  • Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1979
  • Best rookie player: 1973

References

  1. ^ Краткая энциклопедия побед "Шахтера". Segodnya (in Russian). 7 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Ukraine – Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. 6 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ^ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
  4. ^ Лучшими футболистами Украины признаны Анатолий Тимощук, Андрей Шевченко и Александр Шовковский (in Russian). Vol. 51, no. 346. 20 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.


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