Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gennadi Aleksandrovich Krasnitsky | ||
Date of birth | August 27, 1940 | ||
Place of birth | Tashkent, USSR | ||
Date of death | June 12, 1988 | (aged 47)||
Place of death | Qurghonteppa, USSR | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1960–1970 | FC Pakhtakor Tashkent | 245 | (102) |
National team | |||
1961 | USSR | 3 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
1971 | FC Pakhtakor Tashkent (assistant) | ||
1974–1976 | FC Pakhtakor Tashkent | ||
1984–1985 | Zvezda Dzhizak | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Gennadi Aleksandrovich Krasnitsky (Russian: Геннадий Александрович Красницкий) (August 27, 1940 in Tashkent – June 12, 1988 in Qurghonteppa, suicide by jumping out of the highrise window) was a Soviet football player.
He became the first Uzbekistani player scored 100 goals in Soviet Top League to enter the Grigory Fedotov club. The club of top-scoring footballers in Uzbekistan is named after him - Gennadi Krasnitsky club, was founded in 2010.
Krasnitsky made his debut for USSR on May 21, 1961 in a friendly against Poland.