Word: streltsov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Make a Fuss!" The most conspicuous case of stardom sickness recently befell Edouard Streltsov, darling of Moscow's soccer fans. When Edouard hit the big time in 1955 as center forward on the "Torpedo" team of the Moscow Likhachev (formerly Stalin) Auto Plant, he was a clear-eyed, husky youth of 17. But then his sporting instincts turned to women and wine...
...drinks, he liked to smash furniture and crockery. Once he invaded the apartment of a complete stranger and began breaking up everything in sight. When the police picked him up, his sponsors at the auto works telephoned in desperation: "Do you know whom you've arrested? Streltsov, our best footballer! For heaven's sake, don't make a fuss!" The plant even gave him a luxury apartment after he had tossed his wife and infant into the street, and the Moscow City Economic Council continued to shower him with bonuses. Edouard loved the high life...
...smuggled watches, ballpoint pens and nylons are groaning to see their luggage picked over. Police no longer look the other way when athletes hit the bottle too hard. The roll of Communist sportsmen is fast becoming a rogues' gallery. Among those who have made the squad: ¶Edik Streltsov, crack center forward on the Moscow Torpedo soccer team, ignored repeated warnings and became a drunk. "When Streltsov was in the hospital," reported East Berlin's Junge Welt, "his mother brought him not fruit or books, but vodka. The doctors objected, naturally, but the mother advised...
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