Sergei Salnikov
Salnikov at the 1958 World Cup
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| Full name | Sergei Sergeyevich Salnikov | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 13 September 1925 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Krasnodar, Russia | |||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 May 1984 (aged 58) | |||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow, Russia | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1942–1943 | FC Spartak Moscow | |||||||||||
| 1944–1945 | Zenit Leningrad | |||||||||||
| 1946–1949 | FC Spartak Moscow | 88 | (29) | |||||||||
| 1950–1954 | FC Dynamo Moscow | 112 | (29) | |||||||||
| 1955–1960 | FC Spartak Moscow | 112 | (35) | |||||||||
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| 1954–1956 | USSR | 20 | (11) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 1965 | FC Spartak Moscow (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 1967 | FC Spartak Moscow | |||||||||||
| 1969 | FC Spartak Moscow (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 1976–1977 | Afghanistan | |||||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sergei Sergeyevich Salnikov (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Сальников, 13 September 1925 – 9 May 1984) was a Russian football player and manager. He was part of the Soviet team that won the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics, where Salnikov scored two goals in the quarterfinal match against Indonesia. He is the grandfather of the Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Salnikov made his debut for USSR on 8 September 1954 in a friendly against Sweden. He played at the 1956 Summer Olympics as well as the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
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