Eduard Dubinski

Who was Eduard Dubinski?

Eduard Isaakovich Dubinski was a Ukrainian and Soviet football defender who won 12 caps as a member of the Soviet Union national football team in the 1960s.

Born in Kharkov to a Jewish family.

Dubinski played right back and was a member of the Soviet Union national football team in the 1960s. In 1962, two years after the Soviets won the initial European Nations Cup, Dubinsky played in the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. In the first game of the preliminary round, he was hospitalized with a broken leg caused by Yugoslavian Muhamed Mujic. The injury caused sarcoma, which eventually contributed to Dubinsky's death a number of years later.