Career
He was also capable of playing as a central defender. Valery Voronin was born in Moscow, on 17 July 1939. He started playing football in the child team of the Kauchuk factory in 1952.
Then Valery moved to the famous FShM, the youth football school that raised many famous players like Igor Chislenko, Vladimir Fedotov.
He played for FShM while in 1958 he joined Torpedo Moscow. During his club career he played for Football Club Torpedo Moscow, winning the championship twice and was Soviet Football player of the Year in 1964 and 1965.
Between 1960 and 1968 Voronin earned 63 caps and scored 5 goals for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics national football team, and represented the country in the 1962 and 1966 World Cups. During the summer of 1968 he was involved in a serious car accident from which he recovered physically but which left him psychologically scarred.
He became a heavy drinker and in May 1984 was found murdered.
The investigation into his murder never turned up any leads.
