# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anatoli-zinchenko
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:08:32.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anatoli-zinchenko"
name: "Anatoli Zinchenko"
slug: "anatoli-zinchenko"
description: "Anatoli Alekseyevich Zinchenko is a retired Soviet football player and Russian coach. He is best known for being the first Soviet football player to play for a Western European professional club. His transfer to SK Rapid Wien was facilitated by Austrian communist journalist Kurt Chastka. Because Soviet footballers were officially amateurs, Zichenko was formally employed as an equipment technician at the Soviet embassy while playing for Rapid. His salary from Rapid was sent to the Soviet government."
tagline: "Russian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anatoli_Zinchenko.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1949-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.33
  momentum:             6.774193548387096
  historical:           8.078618666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зінченко Анатолій Олексійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "اناتولى زينتشينكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Alexejewitsch_Sintschenko"
    title: "Anatoli Alexejewitsch Sintschenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Zinchenko"
    title: "Anatoli Zinchenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%96%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A6'%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95"
    title: "אנטולי זינצ'נקו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolij_Zin%C4%8Denko"
    title: "Anatolij Zinčenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolij_Zinczenko"
    title: "Anatolij Zinczenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зинченко, Анатолий Алексеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Анатоли Зинченко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1994430"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump