Juri Kulischenko (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.
Kulishenko played club soccer for the Philadelphia Ukrainians. Ukrainian Soccer Diaspora He was voted MVP of the American Soccer League in 1959.
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).Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947 They immigrated to the United States in 1952 and he became an American citizen in 1953.New York, U.S., Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792–1989 Football Federation of Ukraine profile He worked as a civil engineer.
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