Gennadi Gusarov

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Gusarov.

Gennadi Aleksandrovich Gusarov (Russian: Геннадий Александрович Гусаров) (11 March 1937 – 2 June 2014) was a Soviet Russian football player.^[1]

Gennadi Gusarov

Personal information
Full name	Gennadi Aleksandrovich Gusarov
Date of birth	(1937-03-11)11 March 1937
Place of birth	Moscow, USSR
Date of death	2 June 2014(2014-06-02) (aged 77)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward/Midfielder
Youth career
	CSKA Moscow
	FShM Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1962	FC Torpedo Moscow	123	(68)
1963–1968	FC Dynamo Moscow	125	(25)
1969–1971	FC Dynamo Barnaul	75	(15)
Total		323	(108)
International career
1961–1964	USSR	11	(4)
Managerial career
1969	FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams)
1972–1973	FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams)
1974	FC Dynamo Bryansk (director)
1975–2014	FC Dynamo Moscow (youth teams)
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union UEFA European Championship Runner-up 1964 Spain
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Biography

He began playing for the youth team of CDSA (1951–1955), coached by I. P. Ponomaryov. He then played for the FShM team at the Central Stadium named after V. I. Lenin (1955–1957), from where he moved to the Torpedo master team. While playing for Torpedo, Gusarov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1962. He was a member of the Komsomol (VLKSM).^[2]

On the field, he was noted for his organizational skills, technique, and ability to read the game well. His teammates included Eduard Streltsov, Valentin Ivanov, Valery Voronin, Slava Metreveli, Viktor Shustikov, and many others.

Following the dismissal of his favorite coach, Viktor Maslov, from Torpedo and a decline in the team’s performance, in 1963 he transferred to Moscow’s Dynamo, changing his role from forward to midfielder. He quickly adapted to the new position and became the team’s playmaker. In the mid-1960s, together with Vladimir Dudko and Valery Maslov, he became a mainstay of Dynamo’s midfield.^[3]

He ended his playing career in Barnaul, representing the local Dynamo from 1969 to 1971. He entered the Barnaul State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Physical Education, graduating in 1973, after which he moved into coaching: first at Dynamo Bryansk (1974), then returning to Moscow Dynamo to train young players (1975–1981). From 1982, he served as senior coach at the Dynamo Moscow Specialized Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve (SDYUSHOR), where he trained many well-known footballers, including Sergei Ovchinnikov, Lev Berezner, Vladimir Dolbonosov Jr., Andrei Dyatel, and others.

In his later years, he worked in the Dynamo club’s division responsible for veteran players.

He was buried in Moscow at the Golovinsky Cemetery.^[4]

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1960, 1963.
• Soviet Top League runner-up: 1961, 1967.
• Soviet Cup winner: 1960, 1967.
• Soviet Cup finalist: 1961.
• 1964 European Nations' Cup runner-up: 1964.
• Grigory Fedotov club member.
• Top 33 players year-end list: five times.
• Soviet Top League top scorer: 1960, 1961.

International career

He earned 11 caps and scored 4 goals for the USSR national football team, and represented the country in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, the 1962 FIFA World Cup, and the 1964 European Nations' Cup.