Vasili Trofimov

Russian footballer

Vasili Trofimov
Personal information

Full name	Vasili Dmitriyevich Trofimov
Date of birth	(1919-01-07)7 January 1919
Place of birth	Kostino, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Date of death	22 September 1999(1999-09-22) (aged 80)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)^[1]
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	FC Dynamo Bolshevo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1939–1953	FC Dynamo Moscow	216	(69)
International career
1952	USSR	3	(2)
Managerial career
1963–1964	USSR (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasili Dmitriyevich Trofimov (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Трофимов; born 7 January 1919; died 22 September 1999) was a Soviet football player.

Playing career

The USSR champion in three sports: football (1940, 1945, 1949), ice hockey (1947), and bandy (1951, 1952) in the Dynamo (Moscow) teams.

International career

Trofimov made his debut for USSR on 15 July 1952 in a 1952 Olympics game against Bulgaria and scored on his debut. He also scored a goal against Yugoslavia.^[2]

Coaching career

From 1964 to 1981 he served as the senior coach of the Soviet Union national bandy team, which under his leadership eight times in a row became the world champion.