Yuri Kulischenko | |
Birth Date: | November 27, 1930 |
Death Date: | October 27, 1994 (aged 63) |
Birth Place: | Pavlohrad, Soviet Ukraine |
Death Place: | Frankfurt, Germany |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Years1: | 1957–1960 |
Clubs1: | Philadelphia Ukrainians |
Caps1: | ? |
Goals1: | ? |
Totalcaps: | ? |
Totalgoals: | ? |
Nationalyears1: | 1959 |
Nationalteam1: | U.S. Olympic |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Juri Kulischenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Куліщенко|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|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]