Juri Kulischenko

Juri Kulischenko^[a] (November 27, 1930 – October 27, 1994, sometimes 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]

Yuri Kulischenko

Personal information
Date of birth	November 27, 1930
Place of birth	Pavlohrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Ukraine (now Ukraine)
Date of death	October 27, 1994 (aged 63)[1]
Place of death	Frankfurt, Germany
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1960	Philadelphia Ukrainians	?	(?)
Total		?	(?)
International career
1959	U.S. Olympic	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]

Notes

1. Ukrainian: Юрій Куліщенко, romanized: Yurii Kulishchenko

References

1. "Juri Kulischenko". The Central New Jersey Home News. 3 November 1994. p. 21. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
2. (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian Soccer Diaspora
3. "Yuri Kulishenko Voted MVP In American Soccer League" (PDF). Ukrainian Weekly. May 2, 1959.
4. Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947
5. New York, U.S., Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792–1989
6. (in Ukrainian) Football Federation of Ukraine profile

• Kirsch, George B.; Harris, Othello; Nolte, Claire Elaine (April 2000). Encyclopedia of ethnicity and sports in the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-313-29911-7.