The head coach of the Italian “Roma”, the Portuguese Jose Mourinho, congratulated the veteran of the national football Nikita Simonyan on his 95th birthday. The video is available in Twitter-account of the Russian national team.
In the video, the Portuguese specialist congratulates the vice-president of the Russian Football Union (RFU). “Dear Nikita! I hug you tightly, I wish you all the best and a great birthday. In a year I will record you a video congratulation again when you turn 96 years old! ” – declared Mourinho.
Simonyan is a veteran of the USSR national football team and the capital “Spartak”. He is the top scorer in the history of the red and white (160 goals). Simonyan played as a forward. He began his playing career at Dynamo from Sukhumi in 1944, and two years later moved to the capital. In Moscow, before moving to Spartak, he defended the colors of the local Wings of the Soviets.
Simonyan played for the USSR national team from 1954 to 1958, having spent 20 matches for the team and scored ten goals scored. As part of the Soviet national team, he won gold at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
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