Leonid Ostrovski

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alfonsovich and the family name is Ostrovski.

Leonid Ostrovski

Personal information
Full name	Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski
Date of birth	(1936-01-17)17 January 1936
Place of birth	Riga, Latvia
Date of death	17 April 2001(2001-04-17) (aged 65)
Place of death	Kyiv, Ukraine
Position	Defender
Youth career
	VEF Rīga
	FK Daugava Rīga
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1954–1955	FK Daugava Rīga
1956–1962	FC Torpedo Moscow
1963–1968	FC Dynamo Kyiv
1970	FC Mashuk Pyatigorsk
International career
1958–1966	Soviet Union	9	(0)
Managerial career
1971	FC Dnipro Cherkasy
1974	FC Start Chuhuiv
1975–1976	Skury Tsalenjikha
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonid Alfonsovich Ostrovski (Russian: Леонид Альфонсович Островский, Ukrainian: Леонід Альфонсович Островський, Latvian: Leonīds Ostrovskis; 17 January 1936 in Riga – 17 April 2001 in Kyiv) was a Soviet football player and manager of Jewish origin.

Honours

• Soviet Top League winner: 1960, 1966, 1967, 1968
• Soviet Cup winner: 1960, 1964, 1966

International career

Ostrovski made his debut for the national team on 18 November 1961 in a friendly against Argentina (he was selected for the 1958 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play in any games at the tournament).

He played in two World Cups: 1962 and 1966. He was the only footballer from Latvia for the Soviet Union in the World Cups.

External links

• Profile (in Russian) Archived 22 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• KLISF profile
• Profile (in Russia)
• Leonid Ostrovski at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)