Igor Netto

Igor Aleksandrovich Netto (; 9 January 1930 – 30 March 1999) and victory at the first ever European Championship in 1960. He missed all but one match in the 1958 FIFA World Cup due to injury, and also played all four matches in the 1962 FIFA World Cup when the Soviet Union reached the quarterfinals. In total, he collected 54 international caps and scored four goals. His father Aleksander Netto (1885–1956) was originally a carpenter from Valga, Governorate of Livonia, and his mother Juuli (née Tamm; 1894–1977) was from Vaimastvere, Tartu County. Aleksander left Livonia for Soviet Russia with Red Latvian Riflemen in 1918. Aleksander was a fervent Communist, who acted as a Bolshevik Councilman in Moscow. Igor's brother Lev Netto (1925–2017), who spoke Estonian and was named after Lev Trotsky, was a Soviet prisoner for eight years in the Norilsk Gulag. as was also Aleksander's brother Sergei.

Netto was known as goose for his hissing voice, as well as goose-like walk and head shape. On 9 January 1960, he married Olga Yakovleva, an actress. They divorced around 1987 when Netto was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Honours Spartak Moscow Soviet Top League: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962 Soviet Cup: 1950, 1958, 1963

Soviet Union Olympic Gold Medal: 1956 UEFA European Football Championship: 1960

Individual UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960 UEFA Jubilee Poll (2004): #71 The best 33 football players of the Soviet Union (13): No. 1 (1950, 1952–1963), No. 2 (1951)