Wednesday marks the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the famous striker of the Moscow Dynamo Gennady Evryuzhikhin.
Gennady Egorovich was born on February 4, 1944 in the village of Kinderi, north of Kazan. He started playing football in the student national team in Leningrad, later played for the local Lokomotiv and Dynamo. In 1966 he moved to Dynamo Moscow and by the end of the year he had already been called up to the main national team of the country.
Evryuzhikhin has been an integral part of the Dynamo attack for 11 seasons, having played 334 matches (6th place in club history) and scoring 63 goals (12th place). Together with Dynamo, he became the champion of the USSR, won the USSR Cup twice, silver and bronze medals of the championship, and also played in the Cup Winners' Cup final.
Gennady Egorovich had to finish playing football at the age of 32 due to a complex fracture of his leg. At the end of his career, he worked for many years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and then Russia as a diplomatic courier.