Today Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan, a legend of world and domestic football, would have turned 100 years old
1956 Olympic champion, six-time champion of the USSR and five-time winner of the USSR Cup – as a player and as a coach
Olympic champion in 1956, six-time champion of the USSR and five-time winner of the USSR Cup - as a player and as a coach. The best scorer in the history of Moscow “Spartak”.
In 2022, the team of the Peoples’ Friendship Cup was lucky to meet Nikita Pavlovich for the first time at the awarding ceremony of the contest “Russia is a football country”. Later, we met him several times in the Football House on Taganka thanks to Alexander Bagratovich Mirzoyan.
Years pass, generations change, but there are people who become football itself. Nikita Pavlovich, you are one of them. Thank you for being here. Thank you for staying. In memory, in hearts, in the game, wrote Petrozavodsk resident and project leader Yuri Starodubtsev
Earlier, they wrote about the end of the NWFD tournament, in which Karelian footballers won bronze.
