At the age of 58, the vice-champion of Europe in 1988 in football as part of the USSR national team, Sergei Dmitriev, died.
The death of the ex-footballer was reported by the press service of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of St. Petersburg. “For many, he was just Sergei Dmitriev, a kind and smiling man. , the message says. - In recent years, Sergei was seriously ill, but courageously fought a terrible illness. Played football in various friendly matches. In the memory of the fans and all of us, Sergei will remain Seryoga“.
Let’s add that Dmitriev was a pupil of the Leningrad “Changes”, he acted as an attacker. In 1982, he moved to Zenit, with whom two years later, in 1984, he became the champion of the USSR, being the youngest in the championship team. He won the Union Championship once more in 1991, already as part of CSKA (he also won the only USSR Cup in his career), and then with Spartak Moscow he became the champion of Russia in 1997.
As part of the Union team, he played six matches and scored one goal. He was part of the team of Valery Lobanovsky, who became vice-champion of Europe in 1988 in Germany. True, Dmitriev did not play a minute at the tournament itself due to unrecorded injuries - a cracked toe and an inguinal hernia.
Earlier reported that the famous Soviet Olympic basketball champion Alzhan Zharmukhamedov died.
Source: Fakty
