11 December. Today was the birthday of ... Gusin would have turned 51

Today's day is not particularly rich in birthdays of personalities who linked their lives with football:

Andrei Gusin

Andriy Gusin (1972-2014) - legendary midfielder of Dynamo Kyiv. Andriy spent the best years of his career with the Bilo-Syni under the leadership of Valeriy Lobanovskiy. Gusin also defended the colours of Russian clubs Krylya Sovetov and Saturn. Headed the second team of Dynamo. In the Ukraine national team he played 71 matches, in which he scored 9 goals. He was a quarter-finalist of the 2006 World Championship. On 17 September 2014 Andriy tragically died after crashing on a motorbike at the Chaika Autodrome.

Evgeniy Lemeshko (1930-2016) is a former goalkeeper. He played for such clubs as Dynamo (Kyiv), Avangard (Mykolaiv), Shakhtar (Stalino). Achievements: Silver medallist of the USSR championship-1952, winner of the USSR Cup-1954.

Javier Saviola (1981) is a former Argentine footballer who until recently played for River Plate. In 1999 he was recognised as the best footballer in South America. In 2005, he was included in FIFA's list of 100 of the 125 greatest living footballers. Olympic champion in 2004 as a member of the Argentine national team. At one time played for Catalan Barcelona, Real Madrid, Malaga and Lisbon Benfica. In the national team of Argentina played 39 matches, scored 11 goals.

Fabrizio Ravanelli (1968) is a former Italian striker. During his career Ravanelli changed a lot of clubs, among which were the giants of Italian football ("Juventus", "Lazio"), French superclub ("Olympique" Marseille) and collectives of the Foggy Albion ("Middlesbrough", "Derby County"). He was known as the White Feather for his peculiar hair colour and manner of scoring goals from the most unlikely positions. Fabrizio Ravanelli spent his best years at Juventus, with whom he won a number of prestigious trophies: Italian Championship title (1994/1995), Italian Cup (1994/1995), Italian Super Cup (1995), Champions League (1995/1996) and UEFA Cup (1992/1993). The triangle of Ravanelli - Vialli - Baggio was considered in those years the best attacking link of club football. In the Italian national team he played 22 matches, scoring 8 goals. A few years ago, he was in charge of Arsenal Kyiv.