Mikhail An | |
Fullname: | Mikhail Ivanovich An |
Height: | 1.78 m |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1952 |
Birth Place: | Orta Chirchiq District, Tashkent Region, Uzbek SSR, USSR |
Death Place: | Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
Position: | Midfielder |
Years1: | 1968–1969 |
Years2: | 1970–1979 |
Clubs1: | Politotdel |
Clubs2: | Pakhtakor |
Caps2: | 233 |
Goals2: | 50 |
Nationalyears1: | 1978 |
Nationalteam1: | USSR |
Nationalcaps1: | 2 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Mikhail Ivanovich An (Russian: Михаил Иванович Ан; February 19, 1952 – August 11, 1979) was a Soviet football player of Korean ethnic origin. An was one of the FC Pakhtakor Tashkent players killed in the 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision.
In 2020, a documentary was made about him, "Misha" by Brian Song.[1]
An made his debut for USSR on September 6, 1978 in a friendly against Iran and also played in a UEFA Euro 1980 qualifier against Greece.