Such famous football personalities were born today:
Samba DialloSamba Diallo (2003) - Senegalese midfielder for Dynamo. Played for the youth team of Kyiv, successfully playing in the Youth Champions League. He made his debut for Dynamo's first team in autumn 2022, coming on as a substitute in the Europa League match.
Aleksandr Malyavkin (1918-1989) - Soviet striker. Defended the colours of Dynamo Minsk, Moscow and Kyiv. Two-time USSR champion.
Vinnie Jones (1965) - former English midfielder. Currently a very famous actor. Defended the colours of Chelsea London, but spent most of his career with Wimbledon. Winner of the FA Cup 1988 (Jones has a tattoo in honour of this event - ed.). Despite being English, Winnie played for the Welsh national team, as he was not destined to play for the Three Lions with his scandalous reputation.
Uli Henness (1952) is a former German footballer and football manager. General manager of Bayern Munich. During 30 years at the helm of Bayern, Hoeness turned the club into the undisputed leader of the German championship and a grandee of European football. In early 2014, he was accused of failing to pay €15 million in taxes and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. In February 2016, he was released early from prison after serving half of his sentence. On 25 November 2016, the club's annual meeting re-elected Uli Hoeness as Bayern president after a break of 987 days.
Nikola Kalinic (1988) is a Croatian footballer, a striker for Hajduk. He previously played for Atletico, AC Milan, Fiorenina, Dnipro, English Blackburn and domestic Hajduk. Since 2003 he played for youth and junior national teams, in the main Croatian national team he made his debut in 2008.
Mykhailo Mudryk (2001) is a Ukrainian midfielder who currently plays for Chelsea. Previously he was a player of Shakhtar Donetsk. He played for the Ukrainian youth national teams starting at the age of 16.
In 2019, he was included in the Ukraine Under-21 national team, playing 16 matches and scoring three goals. In April 2022, he was called up to the Ukrainian national team for the first time for the team training camp in Slovenia. He made his official debut on 1 June 2022 in a World Cup qualifying match against Scotland, which ended in a 3-1 victory for Ukraine
