
In Moscow, in the 84th year of his life, the four-time champion of the USSR as part of the Moscow Spartak, the 1956 Olympic champion Anatoly Isaev. This was reported by Sport-Express with reference to the first vice president of the RFU Nikita Simonyan.
“The loss is huge. A good person, friend, a cool football player and a coach. Big loss ... He just left the hospital, and today all this happened. Bright memory ... We will do everything to adequately take our friend on the last journey. You know, such bright memories of him! I spoke all the time, congratulating him on his birthday: "Anatoly Konstantinich, the Bastille was taken!" He was born on July 14th. And now he didn’t live to live until his birthday ... ”, Simonyan said.