Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mikhail Ivanovich An | ||
Date of birth | 19 February 1952 | ||
Place of birth |
Orta Chirchiq District, Tashkent Region, Uzbek SSR, USSR | ||
Date of death | August 11, 1979 | (aged 26)||
Place of death |
Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1968–1969 | Politotdel | ||
1970–1979 | Pakhtakor | 233 | (50) |
International career | |||
1978 | USSR | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mikhail Ivanovich An (Russian: Михаил Иванович Ан; February 19, 1952 – August 11, 1979) was a Soviet football player of Korean ethnic origin. An was one of the FC Pakhtakor Tashkent players killed in the 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision.
In 2020, a documentary was made about him, "Misha" by Brian Song.[1]
International career
An made his debut for USSR on September 6, 1978 in a friendly against Iran and also played in a UEFA Euro 1980 qualifier against Greece.
External links
- Profile on RussiaTeam.ru (in Russian)
- Career Statistics on KLISF
References
Categories:
- 1952 births
- 1979 deaths
- Men's association football midfielders
- Soviet men's footballers
- Uzbekistani men's footballers
- Soviet Union men's international footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
- Koryo-saram sportspeople
- Uzbekistani people of Korean descent
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Ukraine
- Soviet people of Korean descent
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1979
- Soviet football biography stubs