Mikhail Yakushin

Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin, born on 15 November 1910 and died on 3 February 1997, was a Russian football and field hockey player who later became a manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR national team. He played football for the Moscow clubs STS from 1928 to 1929, SKiG from 1931 to 1933 and Dynamo from 1933 to 1944, and scored one goal in his three international matches for the Soviet national team. In the 1930s he also played field hockey for Dynamo, favoring hockey over football. As a coach he led Dynamo Moscow from 1944 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1960, winning six Soviet titles, and was head coach of the USSR national football team in 1959 and from 1967 to 1968.