G.Man wrote:
To fill 10 minutes of nothing to do, I compiled an all-time table of the European Championships since 1960, with points awarded for placing in the last eight to the final.
Winners - 6 points; finalists 4; semi-finalists 2; last eight 1 point.
I allowed the Czech Republic to keep Czechoslovakia's points, but Russia couldn't assume the USSR's points (most of them should go to Ukraine anyway), and neither Serbia nor Croatia get Yugoslavia's points.
Harsh.
The 1960 Soviet squad contained no Ukrainian players at all. Of the 11 players who played in their 1960 victory, eight were from Russia (seven of which were from Moscow) and Chokheli, Metreveli and Meskhi were Georgian. Of the eight other players that played in that campaign, seven were Russian (another six from Moscow), while Mamedov was Azeri. Yuiy Voynov is the player from the squad most associated with the Ukraine, but that's because he spent most of his playing career in Kyiv, and all of his managerial career in Ukraine.
In the 1964 Runners-Up squad, Mudrik was Ukrainian, but the other 11 players in the finals were all Russian. Of the seven other players who featured in the qualifiers, Metreveli and Dubynskiy were Ukraininan and Urushadze was Georgian, but they only played once each.
The 1968 semi-finalists were a similar story. Banishevskiy was Azeri, Istomin and Kaplichny were Ukrainian, Pshenichnikov was Uzbekistani, but the other seven were Russian. In the qualifers, Khurtsilava, Kavasashvili and Tskhovrebov were Georgian and Sabo was Hungarian (but a natuarlised Ukrainian), but the other six were Russian.
Yes, the 1988 runners up were very, very influenced by Lobanovskiy and full of Ukrainians and Dynamo Kyiv players, but the 1960s side was very Russian. (Not checked 1972 yet)
