Anatoliy Banishevskiy
Football, Football player
1946 – 1997
Who was Anatoliy Banishevskiy?
Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy was a Soviet footballer of Russian descent from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Most of his playing and coaching career, Banishevskiy committed to his native club Neftchi Baku.
He played for the USSR national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals. Banishevskiy played for the Soviet side in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. His club team was PFC Neftchi, and he scored 136 goals in Soviet Top League competition. The striker was unofficially named Azerbaijan's Player of the Year three times—in 1966, 1967, and 1978.
In November 2003, as part of the celebration of UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player for Azerbaijan by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan as the country's most outstanding player over the past 50 years.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1946
Baku - Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Lived in
- Baku
- Died
- Dec 10, 1997
Baku
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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