Q:Valeri Balyasnikov - Valeri Fyodorovich Balyasnikov (Russian: ; born November 16 1943 died November 1999) is a retired Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1963 for FC Dynamo Moscow. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Athlete