Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Якушин; 15 November 1910 – 3 February 1997) was a Russian football and field hockey player, later a manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR.

Playing career

Yakushin played football for Moscow clubs STS (1928–1929), SKiG (1931–1933), and Dynamo (1933–1944). He scored one goal in his three international matches for the Soviet national team. In the 1930s he also played field hockey for Dynamo, favoring hockey to football.

Mikhail Yakushin

Coaching career

As a manager, he coached Dynamo Moscow from 1944 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1960, winning six Soviet titles (1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959). He was the head coach of the USSR national football team in 1959 and from 1967 to 1968.

Mikhail Yakushin

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1910 births

Footballers from Moscow

1997 deaths

Soviet men's footballers

Soviet Top League players

FC Dynamo Moscow players

Soviet football managers

FC Dynamo Moscow managers

Soviet Union national football team managers

UEFA Euro 1968 managers

FC Lokomotiv Moscow managers

FC Dinamo Tbilisi managers

Pakhtakor Tashkent FK managers

Soviet ice hockey players

Jewish men's footballers

Men's association football midfielders

Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Mikhail Yakushin