Soviet Union national football team | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-19

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Soviet Union national football team


00:01:59 1 History
00:02:08 1.1 First games
00:04:09 1.2 Sweden trials and the triumph
00:05:30 1.3 The end of Kachalin's dream-team
00:06:42 1.4 The late 1960s: Semi-finals at World Cup and European Championships
00:08:13 1.5 Kachalin's second attempt
00:09:22 1.6 Failures to qualify in the 1970s
00:09:56 1.7 Beskov recovers the team
00:10:54 1.8 Lobanovsky era and demise of Soviet Union
00:12:49 2 Kit evolution
00:12:58 3 Competitive record
00:13:07 3.1 FIFA World Cup record
00:13:20 3.2 UEFA European Championship record
00:13:34 3.3 Olympic record
00:13:42 4 Honours
00:14:26 5 Players
00:14:35 5.1 Most capped Soviet players
00:15:27 5.2 Top goalscorers
00:16:04 6 Soviet managers
00:16:26 7 Home venues record
00:16:35 8 See also



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The Soviet Union national football team (Russian: сбо́рная Сове́тского Сою́за по футбо́лу, sbornaya Sovyetskogo Soyuza po futbolu) was the national football team of the Soviet Union.
After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed into the CIS national football team (a formality name for a team of the non-existing country of Soviet Union). FIFA considers the CIS national football team (and ultimately, the Russia national football team) as the Soviet successor team allocating its former records to them (except for the Olympic records which are not combined due to the IOC policy); nevertheless, a large percentage of the team's former players came from outside the Russian SFSR, mainly from the Ukrainian SSR, and following the breakup of the Soviet Union, some such as Andrei Kanchelskis from the former Ukrainian SSR, continued to play in the new Russia national football team.
The Soviet Union failed to qualify for the World Cup only twice, in 1974 and 1978, and attended seven finals tournaments in total. Their best finish was fourth in 1966, when they lost to West Germany in the semifinals, 2–1. The Soviet Union qualified for five European Championships, winning the inaugural competition in 1960 when they beat Yugoslavia in the final, 2–1. They finished second three times (1964, 1972, 1988), and fourth once (1968), when, having drawn with Italy in the semi-final, they were sent to the third place playoff match by the loss of a coin toss. The Soviet Union national team also participated in number of Olympic tournaments earning the gold medal in the 1956 and 1988. The Soviet team continued to field its national team players in Olympic tournaments despite the prohibition of FIFA in 1958 to field any national team players in Olympics. However, in 1960 and in 1964 the Soviets were fielding its second national team.