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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]
| 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]
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