Personal information | |||
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Birth name | Yurii Kulishchenko | ||
Date of birth | November 27, 1930 | ||
Place of birth | Pavlohrad, Soviet Ukraine | ||
Date of death | October 27, 1994 (aged 63) [1] | ||
Place of death | Frankfurt, Germany | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1957–1960 | Philadelphia Ukrainians | ? | (?) |
Total | ? | (?) | |
International career | |||
1959 | U.S. Olympic | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Juri Kulischenko ( Ukrainian: Юрій Куліщенко, romanized: Yurii Kulishchenko, November 27, 1930 – October 27, 1994), also spelled Yuri Kulishenko, was a Ukrainian American international soccer player who earned one cap for the U.S. National and Olympic Teams in 1959. He was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. [1]
Kulishenko played club soccer for the Philadelphia Ukrainians. [2] He was voted MVP of the American Soccer League in 1959. [3]
Kulishenko was born in Pavlohrad, Soviet Ukraine. Following the Second World War, he was in a displaced persons camp in Germany with his mother, Maria (later Popenko), and elder brother, Wladimir (1925–1990). [4] They immigrated to the United States in 1952 and he became an American citizen in 1953. [1] [5] [6] He worked as a civil engineer. [1]