Zoltan Miles

Soviet football player (1944–1997)

Zoltan Miles
Personal information

Full name	Zoltan Zoltanovich Miles
Date of birth	(1944年03月18日)18 March 1944
Place of birth	Mukacheve, Hungary, now Ukraine
Date of death	30 August 1997(1997年08月30日) (aged 53)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1961	FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk	2	(0)
1962	FC Avanhard Ternopil	1	(0)
1963	FC Dynamo Kyiv	0	(0)
1964–1966	LVVPU Soviet Army and Navy	(0)
1966–1968	FC Chayka-VMS Sevastopol	(0)
1968–1969	FC Lokomotiv Kherson	58	(0)
1969–1976	FC Lokomotiv Moscow	222	(0)
1977	FC Zimbru Chișinău	34	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Zoltan Zoltanovich Miles (Russian: Золтан Золтанович Милес; 1944 — 1997) was a Soviet footballer of Hungarian origin who played as a goalkeeper. He had 64 top-flight appearances with FC Lokomotiv Moscow captaining the team for years, having gained fame as a penalty killer during his spell in Moscow^[1] and also kept 89 clean sheets, a club record later beaten by Sergei Ovchinnikov.^[2] Zoltan had a younger brother, Vasily (born 1946), who enjoyed a lengthy career as a striker and earned 8 top-flight appearances at FC Shakhtar Donetsk.