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A coach could move Yevtushenko around the front line without feeling he was committing tactical vandalism, and that says plenty. At Dynamo Kyiv he combined forward movement, pressing effort, technical security and enough finishing instinct to operate as striker, support forward or attacking midfielder depending on the collective need. His five Soviet league titles, three USSR Cups and the 1986 Cup Winners’ Cup show a player valued not for one spectacular trait, but for intelligent usefulness at a very high level.
