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Yury Sevidov

Personal information
Full name	Yury Aleksandrovich Sevidov
Date of birth	(1942-08-24)24 August 1942
Place of birth	Moscow, USSR
Date of death	11 February 2010(2010-02-11) (aged 67)
Place of death	Marbella, Spain
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1960	Zimbru Chişinău	10	(0)
1960–1965	Spartak Moscow	146	(71)
1970–1971	Kairat	63	(22)
1972	Karpaty Lviv	0	(0)
1972	Shakhtar Donetsk	16	(7)
1974	Spartak Ryazan	5	(0)
Total		240	(100)
International career
1964	Soviet Union Olympic	3	(1)
Managerial career
1975–1977	FShM Torpedo Moscow
1978–1979	Dynamo Vologda
1980–1981	Spartak Ryazan
1984	Shinnik Yaroslavl
1985	Dynamo Makhachkala
1987	Neftchi Baku
1997	"Magnesite" Satka
1998	"Patriot" Moscow
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yuri Aleksandrovich Sevidov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Севидов; 24 August 1942 – 11 February 2010) was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward.

Career

Born in Moscow, the son of the famous Soviet football player and manager, Aleksandr Sevidov, Yuri began playing professional football with Spartak Moscow at age 18. Sevidov twice won the Soviet Cup (in 1963 and 1965) and the Soviet Top League (in 1962, when he scored 16 league goals).

He was the best bombardier of 1962 Soviet championship. He is gold champion of USSR in 1962 and bronze medalist in 1961.

Imprisonment

On 18 September 1965, Sevidov had a hit-and-run accident, resulting in a death of a 60-year-old pedestrian, who happened to be Dmitriy Ivanovich Ryabchikov, a prominent Soviet chemist with the Doctor of Science degree and membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sevidov was charged with vehicular manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled in 1969.

He was the second high-profile Soviet football player to have been imprisoned while in the prime of his career after Eduard Streltsov, whose case happened seven years earlier.

After retirement

In later years, Sevidov worked as a columnist for the Soviet sport and often acted as an expert in sports programs on TV.

Death

On 11 February 2010, Sevidov died during a business trip in Marbella, Spain.