Soviet Union 1958 World Cup squad
Soviet Union's 1958 World Cup squad, rated player by player. The standouts: Anatoli Ilyin, Lev Yashin, Vladimir Kesarev. Here's the full 22-man squad — then build your own all-time World Cup XI.
| Player | Position | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Anatoli Ilyin | FWD | 74 |
| Lev Yashin | GK | 70 |
| Vladimir Kesarev | DEF | 70 |
| Boris Kuznetsov | DEF | 70 |
| Yuri Voinov | DEF | 70 |
| Valentin Ivanov | FWD | 70 |
| Nikita Simonyan | FWD | 70 |
| Vladimir Maslachenko | GK | 70 |
| Vladimir Belyayev | GK | 70 |
| Leonid Ostrovskiy | DEF | 70 |
| Anatoli Maslyonkin | DEF | 70 |
| Aleksandr Ivanov | FWD | 70 |
| Vladimir Yerokhin | DEF | 70 |
| Konstantin Krizhevsky | MID | 68 |
| Igor Netto | MID | 68 |
| Viktor Tsarev | MID | 68 |
| German Apukhtin | FWD | 66 |
| Sergei Salnikov | FWD | 66 |
| Valentin Bubukin | FWD | 66 |
| Gennadi Gusarov | FWD | 66 |
| Yuri Falin | FWD | 66 |
| Genrich Fedosov | FWD | 66 |
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