Viktor Serebryanikov


Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov was a Ukrainian association football player. He was the first to receive the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award.
Serebryanikov was the first coach of Nyva Ternopil that started out in the collective farm "Path to the Communism" from Pidhaitsi, Berezhany Raion in Ternopil region in 1978.

Statistics for Dynamo

Serebryanikov made his debut for USSR on 11 October 1964 in a friendly against Austria. He played in the 1966 and 1970 World Cup tournaments.
He is statistically remembered as the first substituted player in the history of the World Cup, in 1970, the first World Cup where substitutions were allowed. He was substituted at half-time in the opening game of the tournament, between USSR and hosts Mexico, when he was replaced by Anatoliy Puzach.