Vladimir BESSONOV

Vladimir BESSONOV - Russia - 1988 European Football Championships.

Photo/Foto: Stuart Franklin

Date: 18 June 1988

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    • POSITION
      Right-back
    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Wednesday, 05 March 1958
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
  • INTERNATIONAL
  • Russia
    • CAREER DATES
      1977-1990 (USSR)
    • Debut
      28th. July 1977 in 2-1 away defeat to East Germany in Leipzig.
    • Final Appearance
      13th. June 1990 in 2-0 defeat to Argentina in Naples (WC)
    • Total Caps
      79 International games 4 goals (for USSR)
  • WORLD CUP
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Vladimir BESSONOV - Russia - 1988 European Football Championships.

Vladimir Bessonov playing for the U.S.S.R. (Russia) during their 3-1 win over

England at the 1988 European Football Championships in Germany.

 

 

1988 EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.


NETHERLANDS 0-1 SOVIET UNION [HT 0-0] (Vasiliy Rats 53m) Cologne,

Müngersdorfer Stadion. 12/06/1988, Attendance: 60,584

SOVIET UNION:

Rinat Dasayev (C) (GK), Vladimir Bessonov, Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Oleg Kuznetsov,  Anatoliy Demyanenko,

Vasiliy Rats, Alexei Mikhailichenko, Gennadiy Litovchenko, Alexandr Zavarov (Tengiz Sulakvelidze 90 min),

Oleg Protasov, Igor Belanov, 79' (Sergei Aleinikov 79 min).

NETHERLANDS:

Hans van Breukelen (GK), Ronald Koeman, Adri van Tiggelen, Frank Rijkaard, Berry van Aerle,

Jan Wouters, Ruud Gullit (C), Arnold Mühren, John van’t Schip, John Bosman,

Gerald Vanenburg (Marco van Basten 57 min).


 

SOVIET UNION 3-1 ENGLAND [HT 2-1]  (Adams 15m, Aleinikov 3m, Mykhaylychenko 28m, Pasulko 73m)

Frankfurt am Main, Waldstadion, 18/06/1988, Attendance 48,335.

SOVIET UNION:
Rinat Dasayev (GK) (C), Vladimir Bessonov, Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Oleg Kuznetsov, Alexei Mikhailichenko,

Vasiliy Rats,  Sergei Aleinikov, Gennadiy Litovchenko, Alexandr Zavarov (Sergei Gotsmanov 86 min),

Oleg Protasov, Igor Belanov (Viktor Pasulko 45 min).

ENGLAND: Chris Woods, Gary Stevens, Kenny Sansom, Dave Watson, Tony Adams, Bryan Robson [c],

Trevor Steven, Steve McMahon (Neil Webb 56 min), Glenn Hoddle, John Barnes,

Gary Lineker (Mark Hateley 70 min).

 

SEMIFINAL

 

SOVIET UNION 2-0 ITALY [HT 0-0]  (Litovchenko 61m,  Protasov 63m). 22/06/1988, Stuttgart,

Neckarstadion, Attendance 61,606.

SOVIET UNION:

Rinat Dasayev (GK) (C), Vladimir Bessonov (Anatoliy Demyanenko 35min), Vagiz Khidiyatullin, 

Oleg Kuznetsov, Vasiliy Rats, Sergei Aleinikov, Gennadiy Litovchenko, Alexandr Zavarov, Oleg Protasov,

Alexei Mikhailichenko, Sergei Gotsmanov.

ITALY:

Walter Zenga (GK), Giuseppe Bergomi (C), Riccardo Ferri, Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini (Luigi De Agostini 65 min)

Roberto Donadoni, Carlo Ancelotti, Fernando De Napoli, Giuseppe Giannini,

Roberto Mancini (Alessandro Altobelli 46 min), Gianluca Vialli.

 

CLUB CAREER:

 

1976–1990   Dynamo Kyiv 277 (27)

1990–1991   Maccabi Haifa 5 (0)

 

Total 282 Games (27 goals)


Managerial career:

1997–2000   CSKA Kyiv

2001             CSKA Kyiv

2002–2003   Turkmenistan

2004–2005   Nyva Vinnytsia

2006             Zorya Luhansk

2006–2008   FC Kharkiv

2008–2010   FC Dnipro.

 

Bezsonov is married to Viktoria Serkyh, a former two-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics.

Together they have a daughter, Anna Bessonova, who also competed internationally in rhythmic

gymnastics and became world champion in 2007, as well as winning an Olympic bronze in 2004

and 2008. In February 2022, a photo of Bezsonov on the frontline during the Russian invasion of

Ukraine was posted on social media by his daughter. Age 64.