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Meet 'The Russian Pele' who was sent to the Gulag for 12 years instead of the World Cup
Olympic gold-medal winning squad, a seventh-placed Ballon d'Or finish under his belt and heading to a World Cup.But the man since dubbed 'The Russian Pele' never reached the 1958 competition. Instead, he was sentenced to 12 years in the Gulag for rape.An allegation was made by a Soviet Minister after Streltsov had left the USSR's training camp for the finals in Sweden to attend a party.
