Anatoliy Banishevskiy

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Anatoliy Andreyevich Banishevskiy (Russian: Анатолий Андреевич Банишевский) (February 23, 1946 in Baku - December 10, 1997 in Baku) was a football (soccer) player from Azerbaijan. He played for the USSR national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals for the USSR, and played in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. His club team was PFC Neftchi.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Azerbaijan by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. [1]

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