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Viktor Shustikov

1939 - 2025

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Viktor Mikhailovich Shustikov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Шустиков; 28 January 1939 – October 2025) was a Russian footballer who played as a defender. From Moscow, he played for the club Torpedo Moscow for the entirety of his senior career, from 1958 to 1973. He made 427 appearances for them, a record, and helped them win the Soviet Top League championship twice as well as the Soviet Cup three times. He also made eight appearances for the USSR national football team, being a member of their silver medal-winning team at the 1964 European Nations' Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Viktor Shustikov is the 5,968th most popular soccer player (down from 5,783rd in 2024), the 2,465th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,494th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Russian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Viktor Shustikov ranks 5,968 out of 21,273Before him are Rodrigo Tabata, Naoki Matsuda, Néjib Ghommidh, Cristian Tello, Manuel Locatelli, and Raphael Tracey. After him are Peter Stöger, Fabio Pecchia, Julien Escudé, Daniel Sturridge, Capone, and Kosuke Harada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Viktor Shustikov ranks 585Before him are Paul Winter, Terry Kiser, Humberto Cruz, Subramanian Swamy, Richard Zare, and Carole Shelley. After him are Marit Paulsen, Terry Paine, Neil Sloane, David Hobbs, Sonny Fortune, and Odd Børre. Among people deceased in 2025, Viktor Shustikov ranks 414Before him are Chris Dreja, Angela Mortimer, Bob Uecker, Gus Williams, Kamini Kaushal, and Aaron Boupendza. After him are Andrejs Prohorenkovs, Peter David, Jules Feiffer, Mike McCallum, Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya, and Ian Watkins.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Shustikov ranks 2,465 out of 3,761Before him are Nikolay Kruglov (1950), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (1991), Alexander Bashlachev (1960), Tugan Sokhiev (1977), Vladimir Vikulov (1946), and Origa (1970). After him are Yuri Krylov (1930), Nina Kraviz (1987), Marina Solodkin (1952), Viktor Rashchupkin (1950), Igor Shuvalov (1967), and Lyubov Kozyreva (1929).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Viktor Shustikov ranks 77Before him are Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (1982), Aleksandr Lenyov (1944), Yuri Falin (1937), Evgeny Lovchev (1949), and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin (1944). After him are Leonid Slutsky (1971), Aleksandr Borodyuk (1962), Nikolai Tishchenko (1926), Oleg Kopayev (1937), Aleksandr Uvarov (1960), and Oleg Pashinin (1974).