High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valeri Ivanovich Novikov (born November 1, 1957 in Moscow) is a retired Soviet football player. Novikov made his debut for USSR on April 5, 1978 in a friendly against Finland, USSR won 10:2 but Novikov allowed two goals in the 45 minutes that he played. He kept clean sheet in the only other game he played for USSR, 1984 friendly against Mexico. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.