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The well-illustrated biography of the best player of Azerbaijan of all-times, Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (Azerbaijani: Anatoli Andreyeviç Banisevski).
Throughout most of his playing and coaching career, Banishevskiy was committed to his original domestic club, Neftçi Baku. He is widely considered the greatest Azerbaijani footballer of all time. He played for the Soviet Union national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 20 goals. Banishevskiy played for the Soviet side in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, as well as in European Championship 1968 and 1972. His club team was Neftçi, and he scored 136 goals in Soviet Top League competition. The striker was unofficially named Azerbaijan's Player of the Year three times-in 1966, 1967, and 1978.[2]
In November 2003, as part of the celebration of UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player for Azerbaijan by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan as the country's most outstanding player over the past 50 years.
21 x 15 cms, softback, 176 pages.
2002
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