Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anatoliy Banishevskiy

Azerbaijani footballer

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1946

Place of Birth: Baku

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1997

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (Azerbaijani: Anatoli Andreyeviç Banisevski; Russian: ???????? ????????? ???????????; 23 February 1946, in Baku – 10 December 1997, in Baku) was a Soviet footballer from Azerbaijan.
Throughout most of his playing and coaching career, Banishevskiy was committed to his originally domestic club, Neftchi Baku.
He is widely considered the greatest Azerbaijani footballer of all time. He played for the USSR national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals.
Banishevskiy played for the Soviet side in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
His club team was PFC Neftchi, 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.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.