Event

The Death Match

9 Aug 1942 · 50.46° N, 30.48° E

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When
9 Aug 1942
Kind
Event
Coordinates
50.46° N, 30.48° E

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Summary

Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. Against all odds, they win 5–3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.

The Death Match

Football match

The Death Match is a name given in postwar Soviet historiography to the football match played on 9 August 1942 in Kiev in Reichskommissariat Ukraine following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The Kiev city team Start, which represented the city's Bread Factory No. 1, played several football games in World War II.

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