ИХ УБИЛА ВОДКА: 10 СОВЕТСКИХ ФУТБОЛИСТОВ, КОТОРЫХ СГУБИЛ АЛКОГОЛЬ

In Soviet football, they were paid millions in illicit cash, given luxury apartments on Khreshchatyk and in central Moscow, given export Volgas, and pampered. But these idols of millions traded all this luxurious life for a faceted glass. How did Olympic champions and the country's top goalscorers end up in the prison uniforms of LTPs? Why did those applauded by Europe end up working as loaders in tobacco factories in their old age, selling their gold medals for a bottle of bootleg vodka, and dying in complete solitude? In this episode, we'll peel back the glossy veneer from the myth of the ideal Komsomol members and reveal a chronicle of the total financial and social suicide of 10 legends of Soviet football. Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 01:12 — Alexander Prokopenko 05:52 — Anatoly Banishevsky 10:12 — Leonid Ostrovsky 14:23 — Yuri Susloparov 19:48 — Viktor Serebryanikov 24:37 — Yuri Istomin 28:55 — Vladimir Kaplichny 33:10 — Mikhail Ogonykov 36:59 — Vitaly Starukhin 41:06 — Grigory Fedotov    • ИХ УБИЛА ВОДКА: 10 СОВЕТСКИХ ФУТБОЛИСТОВ, ...   VODKA KILLED THEM: 10 SOVIET FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO WERE KILLED BY ALCOHOL