Rinat Dasaev

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Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Bronze	1980 Moscow	Team

Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasaev (Russian: Ринат Файзрахманович Дасаев) (born June 13, 1957 in Astrakhan, Soviet Union) is a Russian former football goalkeeper of Tatar ethnicity, who played in three World Cups with the USSR national team. He is considered the second best Russian goalkeeper ever behind Lev Yashin,^[1] and one of the best in the world in the 1980s.

Dasaev was a goalkeeper for the Russian football club Spartak Moscow during most of the 1980s. He won the USSR championship five times and was named Best Soviet Goalkeeper by Ogonyok (Огонëк) magazine in 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988. He played

Dasayev played for the Soviet national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. He appeared in the 1982, 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, as well as the and Euro 88 (where the USSR finished second). In total, he was capped 91 times from 1979 to 1990, being the second-most capped player ever for the Soviet Union.

After his contract ran out with the Spanish club Sevilla FC in the early 1990s, Dasaev retired from the sport.

He was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.

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1. ^ IFFHS' Century Elections - rsssf.com - by Karel Stokkermans, RSSSF.

	USSR squad - 1986 World Cup
1 Dasaev | 2 Bessonov | 3 Chivadze | 4 Morozov | 5 Demyanenko | 6 Bubnov | 7 Yaremchuk | 8 Yakovenko | 9 Zavarov | 10 Kuznetsov | 11 Blokhin | 12 Bal | 13 Litovchenko | 14 Rodionov | 15 Larionov | 16 Chanov | 17 Yevtushenko | 18 Protasov | 19 Belanov | 20 Aleinikov | 21 Rats | 22 Krakovsky | Coach: Lobanovsky

	USSR squad - 1990 World Cup
1 Dasaev | 2 Bessonov | 3 Khidiatullin | 4 Kuznetsov | 5 Demyanenko | 6 Rats | 7 Aleinikov | 8 Litovchenko | 9 Zavarov | 10 Protasov | 11 Dobrovolski | 12 Borodyuk | 13 Tsveiba | 14 Liuty | 15 Yaremchuk | 16 Chanov | 17 Zygmantovich | 18 Shalimov | 19 Fokin | 20 Gorlukovich | 21 Broshin | 22 Uvarov | Coach: Lobanovsky