Viktor Nosov (footballer)

Viktor Nosov (Ukrainian: Віктор Васильович Носов; 19 July 1940 – 17 April 2008) was a Ukrainian footballer and coach. He is recognized as a Master of Sports of the Soviet Union and Merited Coach of Ukraine. While being led by Nosov, in 1979-1985 Shakhtar Donetsk won two Soviet Cups and became a runner-up of the Soviet Top League.

Viktor Nosov
Personal information
Full name Viktor Vasylyovych Nosov
Date of birth (1940-07-19)19 July 1940
Place of birth Stalino, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death April 17, 2008(2008-04-17) (aged 67)
Place of death Donetsk, Ukraine
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
FC Shakhtar Stalino
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1960 FC Shakhtar Stalino 13 (0)
1960 FC CSKA Moscow 0 (0)
1961–1962 FC SKA Rostov-on-Don 28 (0)
1963–1964 FC Shakhtar Stalino 40 (0)
1965 FC Avanhard Kharkiv 36 (4)
1966 FC Shakhtar Donetsk 7 (0)
1967–1972 FC Budivelnyk Poltava ? (?)
Managerial career
1972–1973 FC Shakhtar Makiivka (ass't)
1973–1974 FC Kolos Poltava
1975–1976 FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (ass't)
1977–1978 FC Shakhtar Donetsk (ass't)
1979–1985 FC Shakhtar Donetsk
1986 Victory Sports Club
1989 FC Pakhtakor Tashkent
1990 FC Zorya Luhansk
1991 FC Dynamo Stavropol
1991–1992 FC Veres Rivne
1992 FC Temp Shepetivka (consultant)
1994–1996 FC Shakhtar-2 Donetsk
2003–2004 FC Vorskla-2 Poltava
2005–2007 FC Vorskla Poltava
2007 FC Vorskla Poltava (consultant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nosov started out his playing career in 1958 in FC Shakhtar Donetsk. With Shakhtar and SKA Rostov-na-Donu, Nosov played some 88 games at the Soviet Top League.

He retired in 1972 with FC Budivelnyk Poltava. The same year he became a coach for FC Shakhtar Makiivka. Sometimes at the end of 1980s he coached Victory Sports Club from Maldives. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Nosov stayed in Ukraine and continued to coach Ukrainian teams.

In the beginning of April 2008 Nosov was hospitalized with abdominal angina at the Husak Institute of Urgent and Reconstructive Surgery in Donetsk. However soon after his surgery, he died.

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