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Gennadi Gusarov

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

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

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

Biography

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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

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International career

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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.

References

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  1. ^ "Скончался Геннадий Гусаров". Fc-tm.ru. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Победа торпедовских дублёров в первенстве СССР 1959 года".
  3. ^ "Динамо Москва". fc-dynamo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Могила Г.А. Гусарова".
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