Igor Netto: biography, achievements, personal life. Photo of Igor Alexandrovich Netto

Netto Igor Alexandrovich is a Soviet football player, coach and hockey player. For his career, he was able to earn many titles and awards. However, the athlete entered the history not only as an outstanding football player, but also as a wonderful person. Thanks to this, Netto is still remembered.

Igor Netto: biography

Igor Alexandrovich was born on January 9, 1930. The birthplace of the city was Moscow. He began to show interest in various sports from early childhood, but he was not determined for a long time what he liked best.

The final choice was made after acquaintance with sports school "Spartacus". It was her leadership that predetermined Igor's future career, providing an opportunity for training. From the very beginning, many coaches and team-mates began to notice that the young man has great potential. Thanks to this, the young football player wanted to see many eminent clubs of the Soviet Union.

The result was that Igor Netto stayed in Spartak. He began to play football in the early 40's, and spent his initial game in 1948. In that post-war time, the country, and with it football, were in a deplorable state and had just begun to come to their senses.

About qualitative specialists, as well as training fields of the appropriate level, the players could only dream of. The stadiums were also far from perfect, to which, nevertheless, a huge number of fans came. Therefore, star individuals were very required to show the attractiveness of the sport. The symbol of that generation can also be called Netto.

Football career

Igor Netto started his football career from the position of an attacking midfielder. In addition to excellent technique, he had an amazing "vision" of the field, which allowed him to make excellent cutting cuts, which represented a huge danger to the defense of an opponent. In addition, the player had a great kick, thanks to which he could hit the opponent's gate from a huge distance. Outlets "one on one" almost always finished in favor of his club. It was thanks to his talents that Igor Netto became a star in every tournament.

The football player was able to get through in a very short time. Soon, Igor Alexandrovich took over the duties of captain and team leader, becoming a true symbol of the capital's club. In total, Netto spent nineteen full seasons in Spartak, taking part in 358 games. Five times a football player was able to help his club to win the title of champion and three times the USSR Cup. On the total amount of trophies Netto takes the second line, skipping ahead of the glorified Oleg Blokhin.

In addition, the player has a considerable number of personal titles. Thirteen times Igor Netto was listed in the list of the best players of the Russian championship, taking first place twelve times.

Career in the USSR national team

No less saturated and stunning were the performances of the player in international matches. In the national team, Netto Igor Alexandrovich spent the period from 1952 to 1965. During this time, he participated in fifty-four games and scored four goals. It is interesting that in the composition of the Soviet Union, Netto played the position of a defensive midfielder, not an attacker, but such changes did not significantly affect his playing qualities.

During performances in the national team, the player was able to win the victory at the Olympics in 1956 and get gold medals at the European Championships in 1960.

Undoubtedly, speaking of performances in the team, it is worth remembering the noble act of the football player in the match against Uruguay. During the game one of the balls was scored through the torn net, but was taken into account. Being the captain of the team, Igor Netto was asked to cancel the goal. Photos and other stored information of this act still surprise many football fans. By the way, that game was won by the USSR national team. Such actions were not so rare in Netto's career.

Career of the hockey player

Despite the choice of the path of the football player, Igor Netto was able to prove himself on the ice in a certain period of his life. Acted as a professional hockey player for the team "Spartacus" (Moscow). Igor Alexandrovich has twenty-two official games and twenty-nine assists.

Completion of career and career of coach

After playing hockey, Igor Netto decided to return to the world of football. After finishing his career, he created a book that was published in 1974.

Igor Netto finished his career at 34. To train the team he did not work as well as required leadership. He did not receive invitations from good clubs. Mentor in the teams, he was delayed for a short while. At the same clubs, which he coached, could not occupy high places, and often fell into the relegation zone.

Subsequently, many experts explained Netto's failure by the fact that he could not suppress the player in himself.

Igor Netto: personal life and family

Great-grandfather Netto came to work in Estonia from Italy. Mother moved to Russia in 1917, and her father a little earlier. Igor has a brother Leo, who in 1944 found himself in German captivity and was released by American troops. In 1946-1856, Leo was in Norilleg, on charges of espionage against the US government, but the charges were dropped.

Until 1987, Netto was married to actress Olga Yakovleva. They had no children.

last years of life

Igor Netto is a footballer who became famous as the Gus. What was given such a nickname is hard to say. Some say that for a hoarse speech and a long neck, and someone says that for a sinewy body and a pronounced nose. Nevertheless, the nickname did not carry any offensive character, but rather, on the contrary. Nicknames were received only by very famous and star athletes. Some even considered such nicknames prestigious.

In the last years of his life, Igor Netto began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Memory could fail the player at the most inopportune moments. Often he forgot to turn off the gas or could not find his way home. Sometimes he changed into a tracksuit and waited for the bus, which was supposed to take him to the training. His wife refused to take care of him and almost drove her out of the house. Former team partners helped him to make out a small apartment, but most of the time he spent with his brother.

The footballer died on March 30, 1999 in Moscow. The place of burial was the Vagankovskoye cemetery. At the time of his death, he was 69 years old.

Memory

• On the house where the football player lived, a memorial plaque was installed.
• The apartment, in which Netto lived from 1955 to 1977, was obtained for the victory over the West German national football team.
• Until 2014, the stadium, where the youth trainings are held, bore the name of Igor Netto.
• Medals that were won during the career, were transferred to the museum of "Spartacus."

Player facts

• He has been a member of the CPSU since 1966.
• I took the ninth place in the list of the best footballers of Europe in 1957.
• It is part of the symbolic team of the national team of the fiftieth anniversary.
• He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
• In April 1995 he received the Order of Friendship for the merits of the development of sports and a great contribution to the development of "Spartacus."

Igor Netto became one of the symbols of Soviet football. Player's contributions to the development of sports are huge. This football player remains for many of the best in the history of Moscow's "Spartak" and the USSR team. The player did not achieve the same amazing results in his coaching career. Fate, you can say, turned away from the football player after the end of his career. She turned away from Igor Alexandrovich and his wife, who had lived with him for a long time with him, but did not take care of her husband in his last years.