Streltsov confessed to the crime after being told this would allow him to keep his place in the Soviet team for the 1958 World Cup . This did not happen , however ; far from remaining in the national side , Streltsov was sentenced to twelve years in the forced labour camps of the Gulag , and barred from ever returning to professional football of any kind . Plans for a march by 100,000 workers at Moscow 's ZiL car factory , the base of the Torpedo club , to show support during the trial , were abandoned when Streltsov was sentenced before the march could be arranged . Ogonkov and Tatushin , meanwhile , were banned from playing any kind of organised football for three years , and barred from representing the USSR for life . In the camp where he was incarcerated , Streltsov was initially victimised by a young criminal who inflicted so much physical harm on him that he spent four months in the prison hospital , suffering from injuries caused by blows from either an " iron bar or a shoe heel " . Camp authorities later started to include Streltsov in football matches to calm down the inmates in times of trouble ; one prisoner , Ivan Lukyanov , later said : " w e loved Streltsov , we believed he would return to football . And not only us . " Meanwhile , the Soviet team travelled to Sweden for the World Cup without Streltsov , Ogonkov or Tatushin . The world 's press claimed that two of the competing teams were severely weakened : England by the Munich air disaster , and the Soviets by the loss of Streltsov . The Soviets reached the quarter-finals , losing 2 – 0 to hosts Sweden , a team defeated 6 – 0 by the Soviet Union during Streltsov 's 1955 debut . Without Streltsov , Torpedo dropped from their second-place finish in 1957 to seventh in 1958 , though the team also reached the Soviet Cup final before losing to Spartak . Streltsov 's place as the club 's leading scorer was taken by the 21-year-old forward Gennadi Gusarov , who had turned professional with Torpedo during 1957 . The team rose to fifth in 1959 before winning the Double of Top League and Cup during the following year , with Gusarov leading the league in goals with 20 . Torpedo then finished as runners-up in both competitions in 1961 , with Gusarov scoring 22 . Two mid-table finishes followed as Gusarov was sold to city rivals Dynamo between the 1962 and 1963 seasons , but Torpedo once again came second in 1964 , losing a championship play-off against Dinamo Tbilisi after the two clubs finished equal on points
Munich air disaster
Munich air disaster
Eduard Streltsov