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Anatoli Kozhemyakin
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Full name Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin
Date of birth (1953-02-24)24 February 1953
Place of birth Moscow, Russian SFSR
Date of death 13 October 1974(1974-10-13) (aged 21)
Place of death Moscow, Russian SFSR
Playing position Striker
Youth career
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1969 FC Lokomotiv Moscow 0 (0)
1970–1974 FC Dynamo Moscow 62 (24)
National team
1972–1973 USSR 3 (0)
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Anatoli Yevgenyevich Kozhemyakin (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Кожемякин, 24 February 1953 – 13 October 1974) was a Soviet football player. He died in a freak accident: he was stuck in an elevator, but was able to open the elevator doors; as he tried to climb out, the elevator started moving again and crushed him to death.

Honours

  • Soviet Top League bronze: 1973.
  • Soviet Top League second-best scorer: 1973.
  • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finalist: 1972.
  • Top 33 players year-end list: 1973.

International career

Kozhemyakin made his debut for USSR on 29 March 1972 (aged 19) in a friendly against Bulgaria. He played in a 1974 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Chile. The USSR team did not go to the return game against Chile in protest against the Augusto Pinochet regime.

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