Russia (bbabo.net) - A pleasant date falls on December 22, 2021. Over the years, Soviet and Russian hockey players have won almost everything that could be won. Six of our brightest stars have become three-time Olympic champions.

It is on December 22 at 19:45 that the Amateur Hockey Association (AH) and its president, Alina Borodaeva, will organize a unique match on the indoor skating rink of the sports complex of the Moscow Olympic Village on Michurinsky Prospekt. The ALH national team will play with the famous Hockey Legends team. The "Legends" include such magicians as Vyacheslav Fetisov, Valery Kamensky, Pavel Bure, Boris Mikhailov ...

The team is led by no less stellar coaches - Olympic champions Alexander Yakushev and Yuri Lyapkin. The ALH national team will include the heads of security agencies and famous athletes: the ALH vice-presidents, Olympic champion hockey player Seey Svetlov and the leader of the USSR and Russian national football teams Alexander Mostovoy, famous masters of Russian ball hockey - seven-time world champion, head coach of the Dynamo Moscow team Evgeny Ivanushkin and four-time world champion Ivan Maksimov. In no case let us forget that it was thanks to Russian hockey that ice hockey began to develop rapidly.

From the day of the founding of the cosmonaut corps to this day, the Nashi team has existed. It was organized by the first space explorer Yuri Gagarin. Among the representatives of the most "stellar profession" in the ALH team, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Sey Zaletin.

About the great coach Anatoly Tarasov - in his quotes and memoirs of athletes Text: Pavel Zarudny On December 22, 2021, national ice hockey turns 75 years old. Let's talk about his first, but not timid steps and rapid development. About great players and coaches who left the most noticeable mark in the history of their favorite game. Let's recall, perhaps, one of the most important events - the USSR Super Series - Canada. Let's talk about the current day of Russian ice hockey and plans for the near Olympic future.

On the eve of the anniversary of our hockey, we recall vivid quotes from one of the brilliant coaches of the twentieth century - Anatoly Tarasov, who became for many generations of players not only a tough mentor, but also a father.

About dictatorship

"I think that, probably, I was correctly considered ... a dictator. Maybe this word is appropriate. the hardest hockey fights - I did not allow myself to step on my heels, on calluses. It seemed to me that I knew what I was doing. If I suppressed my players with something, then a whole galaxy of outstanding hockey players would not have been brought up. Yes, I was I came up with not only three-time, but also four-time workouts. It's very hard. But I did not do it out of extravagance. I knew that we would not catch up with them, these Canadians. And at the same time I tortured not only them, but myself. When They say to me "rude coach", I want to ask these comrades: "Is he fair or not?" If he scolds you, does he do it for his "I", for his greatness, or does he do it for you? "

How Anatoly Tarasov coached CSKA and the USSR national team

"I had an idea to change the tactics of the game. It was called tactics with two midfielders. I conducted an experiment, made sure that I was right, and I needed to make an outstanding link I had players for all the roles. There should only be one central defender - Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin. At that time he was already 32 years old, his maneuver decreased, but he had a scent, tactical calculation. He lacked a little character, but I told him: "Do you want to play more? You must turn from a kind uncle into a cruel one. Here, on the patch, everything should be on fire. "He replied:" I will try. "I needed a very strong player. I didn't want to take from the other five. Whom? I thought for a long time. And then I dreamed that Tolka Firsov was playing as a left midfielder. But how to tell Firsov about this? The best forward in world hockey. I will tell him, and he will answer that he will not play in this position and will end up altogether. Why can't he say that? He is an outstanding hockey player on the planet. He received the best striker prize last year. I don't remember how I approached him, but I know that I was very worried before this first conversation. It was 1971. And I did not think that he would answer me that way. He said, "Is this for hockey? Or am I a guinea pig?" I replied: "Only for hockey, it turns everything around in the world of hockey." I didn’t tell anyone and the first person I shared with was Firsov. He said, "Do as you want. What do I need?" I explained everything to him and said: "Think for two or three days, don't answer today. You will like everything else. By the way, according to my idea, you should score not less, but more than you did before." He called on the same day and said that he agreed. He had two or three years to play. By the way, he spent two seasons in this role. We were the undisputed champions and this new system impressed the whole world with this roster. These five have not lost to anyone in international matches. "

How Kharlamov returned

"What was the strength of this hockey player - he could score surrounded by three or four players. It was always fun to play with him. He did not know how to take offense. But what about the Canadians beat him. How they hated him for beating them.

Valera was nashensky. He responded to the spirit of our time, our humble life. Valerka helped us coaches. He believed that everything depends on us. He, outstanding, was very disciplined. It so happened that after the first car accident in which he was seriously injured, he went out on the ice. I called and said: "Anatoly Vladimirovich, I don't have a stroke, I lost it." I advised him to come to Vienna Bystrov and ask him to give sparring partners from the youth team. To play alone against seven or eight opponents, lead to the last. If you only saw how he fulfilled the coach's request! And he recovered! "

About Tretyak's new approach

"Tretiak, unlike all goalkeepers, entered the cage of world hockey when curved hooks appeared, when the puck flew at a terrible speed, interrupting the tibia. At that time we felt that It is impossible to reflect the throws from seven to eight meters on the visual effect. Scientists and physiologists helped us here. And the problem arose - to try to build the game on intuition. And Tretyak, a smart 16-year-old boy, was the first to master this ancient role of a goalkeeper in a completely new quality. If someone looks at all the footage with the participation of Tretyak, then for some reason the puck always falls into a trap, not a trap catches the puck. This was possible only under two conditions: First, Tretyak's culture is higher than that of previous goalkeepers. And most importantly, Tretyak was told: to play football, basketball. He had to keep answering the question - where can the transmission be, where the object can be thrown. And this new idea that he is a pioneer of a new his approach to improving the skill of the goalkeeper - it raised him. A good boy from a good educated family. One drawback is that he left early.

Great players - about a great coach

Vladislav Tretyak, three-time Olympic champion, president of the FHR: "Anatoly Vladimirovich liked to hold important meetings in the steam room, and his bosom friend and neighbor were guests of his bath basketball coach Alexander Gomelsky and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Honestly, it was impossible to go to the bathhouse with Tarasov - he was so fanatically soaring, dip in cold water and put in your mouth. It will be easier to breathe, and the steam will not burn your throat. Tarasov went even further. He lay down on a shelf, poured cold water into the gang, lowered his head there and drank. He was processed in four brooms, and he didn't care. Then he went out, drank beer and solved all the issues "at once" ...

I also remember how he was able to motivate. This was in the 71st year. In the decisive match we lost to the Swedes after the first period - 1: 2. Tarasov went into the dressing room and sang the song "Black Raven" at first quietly, then louder. And it helped. The game ended - 6: 3, and we became world champions. Tarasov was a great psychologist, and for him there was first a team, all together, and then a personality. In Russian hockey, alas, it often happens differently. " Vyacheslav Starshinov, two-time Olympic champion: “In the national team, Tarasov never had problems and“ bullying. ”Although there were fewer Spartak players, they treated us with respect. Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov and I could talk on To be honest, he was even a little afraid to preach us. He knew that we could answer no worse than he did, ask a question. But his direct charges at CSKA could not afford this. All year round he was “under the hood”. In their army, it is not customary to talk at all, only "is", and that's it (laughs) ".

Vyacheslav Fetisov, two-time Olympic champion, State Duma deputy: "For me, the teacher, father in hockey is Tarasov. He invested more in me than anyone else. Twice a year Anatoly Vladimirovich held meetings for young hockey players and their parents. And he brought with him the stars who won the Olympics, world championships, so that everyone felt the continuity of generations. And he said understandable things. For example, he asks a boy: “What's so sad?” He answers: “We lost in the final” to Spartak ". Tarasov asks: "Are there parents in the hall?" Mom comes out, and he starts asking her questions:

- Washes the floors?

- Not.

- Does it take out the trash?

- Not.

- Well, how can you beat “Spartak” here ...

He was not only the greatest domestic coach, but also a philosopher and teacher. "

An interesting fact

Anatoly Tarasov married in 1939 a girl named Nina, who studied with him at the high school of coaches. Nina Grigorievna, who was ten months older than her husband and lived to be 93 years old, recalled that after Tarasov proposed to her, they did not arrange magnificent ceremonies and simply went to the Bauman regional executive committee of Moscow, where they signed.

After that, the young people celebrated the event in the cafeteria of the institute, ordering themselves a beef stroganoff. The bride received a bouquet of flowers and a vase as a.jpgt.

In February 1947, their daughter Tatyana was born, who became one of the most famous figure skating coaches not only in Russia, but also in the world. Their daughter Galina also grew up in their family. The father brought up his daughters very harshly and every day at seven in the morning, in any weather, he kicked them out to exercise. By the way, it was the daughters who insisted that Tarasov buy his wife an engagement ring for the "golden" wedding anniversary. Until that time, Anatoly Vladimirovich categorically did not want to "waste money".

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