EDUARD MALAFEEU CELEBRATES 80TH ANNIVERSARY
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Today, the famous veteran of Dinamo-Minsk, the great coach and legend of national football Eduard Vasilievich Malafeeu turned 80 years old!
It is impossible to name the second such person in the history of Dinamo-Minsk and all Belarusian football. Eduard Vasilievich got into the camp of the blue-whites back in 1963, moving to Dinamo from Spartak Moscow. In the same year, Dinamo won the bronze medals of the USSR Championship for the second time in history, and Malafeeu himself became the second scorer of the championship.
In total, Eduard Vasilyevich Malafeeu, as part of our club, played more than three hundred matches in various tournaments and scored 117 goals, won bronze medals in the USSR championship 1963, played in the final of the USSR Cup in 1965, and became an honored master of sports of the USSR! As part of the Soviet Union team, he won silver medals of the European Championship 1964 in Spain and took 4th place at the World Championship 1966 in England.
Eduard Vasilyevich is a member of the symbolic Scorers Club named after Grigory Fedotov, uniting Soviet football players who scored more than 100 goals at the highest level. Under the leadership of Eduard Malafeeu, Honored Coach of the USSR and the BSSR, Dinamo-Minsk won the USSR Championship in 1982 and became a bronze medalist in 1983.
Our veteran led the USSR Olympic and national teams, led the USSR national team to the FIFA World Cup 1986. He was the head coach of the National Team of Belarus. It was under the leadership of Eduard Malofeev that the national team achieved the best result in its history - in the qualifying round for the World Cup 2002, the "White Wings" almost reached the play-offs, finishing third in the group.
The management, employees, players and coaches of FC Dinamo-Minsk, as well as the fans of Dinamo-Minsk thank Eduard Vasilievich for his sincere love for the club and devotion to football. We congratulate Eduard Vasilyevich Malafeeu on his birthday, we wish the famous football player and coach good health, inexhaustible optimism, and long life!
Thank you for everything you have done for Dinamo-Minsk and continue to do.
Happy birthday!