Eduard Streltsov has an interesting story, although I always very conflicted about it (I'll extrapolate later). He was genuinely one of the world's brightest talents in the 50's – finished 13th in Ballon d'Or in 1956 aged 18, got 7th the next year and scored 18 goals in 20 international games up to the point when...
Right before the beginning of the 1958 World Cup he was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
He was released after 5 years, but he was still banned from playing football – that ban would only be revoked 2 years later (and just for the club football, they had granted him the right to play for the national team again only in 1966, after the World Cup had ended). After he got back – and this wasn't a modern prison, it was a Soviet prison labour camp, he had won the league, the cup and twice became Soviet Footballer of the Year, also finishing as a runner-up once. Truly insane.
The issue is – he got sentenced for rape... generally not many people believe that he did it, there's no trust in Soviet justice system at all and the case was quite clearly politically motivated. Even if it wasn't fabricated, the insanely short length of the trial and the very harsh (compared to a usual sentence for that) sentence certainly don't help the situation.
Anyway, he's generally seen as a martyr that got destroyed by USSR's political system, but the thing is, it's entirely possible that the rape had actually happened and it was simply used as a cause to teach him (and the country) a lesson. In which case it's kind of hard to root for him. He had denied his involvement in this all of his life (including some shady comments like "it wasn't me who should've been imprisoned"), but I doubt that we'll ever learn the truth.
definitely, although he could be wearing a wig right now.