According to Soviet Union team-mate Nikita Simonyan, speaking in 2006, Streltsov wrote home to his mother "saying he was taking the blame for someone else".
据当时是斯特列尔佐夫苏联国家队队友的尼基塔·西蒙尼杨在2006年所说，斯特列尔佐夫致信给他的母亲说“他为别人的过失承担了责任”。