Tell us, Viktor KANEVSKYI…

Tell us, Viktor KANEVSKYI…

Two weeks ago he celebrated his 80th birthday.

- What are your brightest reminiscences of 1961?

- Torches at the stadium after the game! It was beautiful and touching. I remember that as if it happened today…

- Who handed you captain’s armband?

- It was decision of the team.

- Can you tell us about your teammates, captain?

- Many of them have passed away. Great goalkeeper Oleh Makarov, defenders Volodymyr Shcheholkov and Vitaliy Shcherbakov. Valentyn Troyanovskyi, Viktor Serebryanykov and Valeriy Lobanovskyi are also gone. Fortunately when I celebrated my 80th birthday with my family in Connecticut I was congratulated by Andriy Biba and Yozhef Sabo. How can I forget Anatoliy Suchkov, Vasyl Turianchyk and Oleh Bazylevych?! And our coach Viacheslav Soloviov…

Devi ARKADYEV from Philadelphia for www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua

* photo by V. Rasner

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