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Edward. Anatolyevich. Strelizov: Athlete, meritorious athlete (1967). The best striker in the history of national football. Since the age of 14 he has been playing football for the Moscow plant "Frezer". From 1953 to 1958 and from 1965 to 1970 he was a player for the Moscow Torpedo team. In 1958 he was sentenced to seven years for robbery during a demonstration under the slogan "For the purity of the moral face of Soviet sports". Soviet champion (1965); Soviet trophy holder (1968); Olympic champion as a member of the Soviet national team (Melbourne 1956); Coach since 1971.
Strelizov - famous Soviet footballer, meritorious athlete (1967).
Strelizov - the best striker in the history of national football.
Strelizov was born on July 21, 1937 in the town of Perovo near Moscow. The parents of the future footballer did not have a good life: his father Anatoly worked in a factory, and his mother, Sophia, was a kindergarten teacher.
His family broke up after the Great Patriotic War, and the elder Streltsov, demobilized from the army, went to find another woman to settle in Kiev. The family lost a breadwinner and the mother went to work at the Fraser plant after a heart attack to raise her son alone.
In 1944, the boy was sent to school, where he did not show a talent for learning, but fell in love with physical education. In his free time, he plays soccer with children in the neighborhood and supports the Spartak team.
At the age of 13, Strelizov joined the team of the factory where his mother worked and was offered the position of center forward, which became his lifelong role. During a friendly match against the Moscow "Torpedo" youth team, the young man impressed the coach of the famous club and quickly became a player who trained under the guidance of an experienced mentor.
In 1954, Streltsov made his professional football debut as a member of the Moscow Torpedo Team. Against Dynamo FC from Tbilisi, the young striker scored the first goal of his career and established himself as the club's first team throughout the season.
The following year, he became the most efficient player in the league with a 9th finish, scoring 15 goals in 22 matches and earning a place in the Soviet national team, where he scored a hat-trick in the first two games against Sweden and India.
During the 1956 Olympic season, Streltsov helped the team become gold medalists in Melbourne, but missed the final against Yugoslavia due to tactical reasons by his coach. The sports policy at the time was that only members of the national team who participated in the finals could win the prize. Due to Streltsov's absence, he did not receive a medal.
Nikita Simonyan, who replaced the talented scorer, offered Edouard his medal after the victory, but he refused, saying he planned to win many of his own trophies. However, the payoff was not as fast as they had hoped. In the 1957-58 season, the striker brought the Torpedo team to the second line of the final table of the national championship, paving the way for the World Cup play-offs for the Soviet national team in Poland.
Unfortunately, due to criminal charges and subsequent arrests, the footballer was destined to be unable to play in major football competitions for four years.
Criminal cases and imprisonment
In the mid-1950s, Streltsov aroused the interest of French and Swedish clubs, which caused national discontent, and the authorities considered the footballer to be an unreliable "demon of Western imperialism".
In early 1957, the footballer was embroiled in a scandal involving high-ranking government officials, caused by his reluctance to marry the daughter of a member of the Politburo. A year after the incident, Edward, who was resting in the countryside with colleagues and a woman named Marina Lebedeva, was charged with rape and arrested.
The testimony against him was confusing and contradictory, and during the trial, Streltsov was forced to confess guilt in exchange for the promise to retain a place in the 1958 World Cup team. However, this did not happen: Edward was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the Gulag concentration camp and deprived of the opportunity to return to major sports.
In prison, Streltsov was brutally beaten and spent 4 months in the hospital. After recovering, he went logging along the Vyatka River and then got a job as a librarian at a correctional institution in the Tula region. Guards attract well-known soccer players to soccer matches between prisoners, both to facilitate the lives of detainees and to help maintain good health.
In 1963, the authorities released Streltsov early, and the footballer returned to Moscow.
For Streltsov, returning to sports was not easy. The striker was not taken to the professional club due to a criminal record, where he started playing for the ZIL factory again in 1963. Edouard's match attracted a large number of fans, and the goalscorer lived up to the expectations of the fans and led the club to victory in the amateur tournament.
In 1964, when Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the public persuaded the authorities to allow Streltsov to play professionally. Edward returned to his native torpedo team, and to the delight of fans, he became the champion of the USSR in 1965. The footballer was again invited to the national team and entered the field for the next 3 years.
In 1968, Streltsov set a record by scoring 21 goals in 33 games at the National Championship. The following year, the striker's football career began to take a crisis, he did not achieve a single chance to score and left the professional league due to an Achilles tendon injury.
After stopping the competition, Streltsov graduated from the Sports Academy and returned to his hometown to work as a coach for the torpedo youth team.
Streltsov's biopic, actor Alexander Petrov plays him
After the death of the great Soviet footballer, the stadium of the club where Streltsov was located was named after him and a monument to him was erected at the main entrance.
In 2020, Streltsov's biopic was filmed based on books written by people about the footballer.
After middle age, he was with friends
His personal life:
Streltsov with his son in
Streltsov was a charming young man. Rumor has it that the footballer is a misogynistic, but he has girlfriends, lovers and spouses in his life.
Edward's first wife was Alla Demenko, whom he secretly married before heading to Melbourne for the Olympics. Their union disintegrated a year after he was arrested on charges of rape, by which time the footballer had become the father of his first child, a girl named Lyudmila.
Returning from prison, Edward, who likes to drink with friends, completely loses his mind. After a chance encounter with his ex-wife, he tries to restore the relationship, but the bad habit of drinking prevents the family from reuniting.
Unable to resolve his differences with Allah, he married a girl named Raisa in September 1963. The new wife became a highlight in Streltsov's personal life. The man settled down, and after the birth of his son Igor, he became an exemplary stay-at-home man. Edward and Raisa were happy, and the marriage lasted 27 years until the death of the footballer.
Memorial tombstone of Streltsov
Commemorative stamp of Streltsov issued by Russian Post
Streltsov's commemorative silver coin
"Life of an outstanding person - Streltsov"
Illustrated photo from "The Life of an Outstanding Person - Streltsov"
Memorial statue of Streltsov
Memorial statue of Streltsov
Memorial statue of Streltsov
The order of the characters in the text is in the order of the Russian alphabet;
The first part of the text was translated by myself;
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