Ice hockey team of the union. Ice hockey in the USSR

The USSR ice hockey team is a hockey team that represented the Soviet Union in international ice hockey competitions. The USSR Ice Hockey Federation acted as the managing organization of the national team. Officially, within the framework of the IIHF, the team existed from 1952 to 1991. For 39 years of its existence, the national team has been the strongest in the world. She took part in 34 world championships, 22 of which she won. She became a participant in 9 Winter Olympic hockey tournaments, 7 of which she won. It is the only team in the world that has never returned from the World Championships and Olympic Games without a set of awards. At the same time, it should be noted that the success of the national team to some extent depended on the dubious nature of the amateur status of Soviet players: in the USSR, hockey, like all sports, was nominally amateur, unlike North Americans and Western Europeans. In 2008, on the eve of its 100th anniversary, the International Ice Hockey Federation conducted a survey among 56 specialists from 16 countries of the world in order to determine the symbolic hockey team of the world over the past 100 years, and according to the results of the survey, four out of six places in the world team went to hockey players of the USSR .
In pre-revolutionary Russia, ice hockey was not particularly popular, but the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League, created three years earlier (under this name, the International Ice Hockey Federation existed until 1978), but this step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization. After 1917, the situation with hockey in the country has not changed. Bandy (Russian hockey, also known as bandy) remained the main national game winter sport, the attitude towards ice hockey was negative. Here is what the magazine “Physical Culture and Sport” (1932, No. 9) wrote about the new game at that time: “The game is purely individual and primitive in nature, it is very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot stand any comparison with“ bandy ”. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ... ”The turning point in the development of ice hockey occurred in 1946, when the All-Union Committee for physical education and sports decided to hold the first ice hockey championship of the USSR, and this decision gave impetus to the development of hockey throughout the country. The first international matches were played by Soviet hockey players, who played under the flag of the Moscow national team, in 1948 with the Czechoslovak team of the LTC (Prague). The match ended with the score 6:3 in favor of Muscovites. In 1952, the country's top sports leadership decided to join the All-Union Ice Hockey Section to the International Ice Hockey League, this step gave the right Soviet athletes to compete at the World Championships, and the previous decision of 1951 to join Olympic Committee USSR in the IOC - and to participate in the Olympic hockey tournaments.

But, really, how many of you know the history of the emergence of Soviet ice hockey? I don't think so, not many. And I don't see anything wrong with that. Simply, we loved and love this game so much that we didn’t even think about how, when and why the familiar ball was transformed into a puck.

And, frankly, my dahushim pushed me to learn the history of ice hockey in the USSR. Which I am very happy about.

And in fact, I already wrote about, talked about, found, but my hands did not reach to tell about how it all began. It's time to fix... Believe me, a very interesting story.

Only, just ended the Great Patriotic War. The country was reborn, grandiose plans were made and the shortest path to communism was determined. And among other things, we definitely needed to “give our sonorous names to all records.” Yes, the country that defeated fascism had to be faster, higher and stronger in everything.

By the way, do you know why our athletes did not participate in the 1948 Olympic Games? Yes, everything is simple. They thought at the top that we wouldn’t take enough gold, so they didn’t let us in.

Olympic principle “…. the main participation” is not for us.

And if, in Helsinki on Summer Olympics 1952 we went and flashed there to the fullest (if you are interested, read about our first Olympic champions), then in Oslo winter Games our athletes still missed. Hockey was to blame! More precisely, ice hockey, which was not just olympic view sports, but was very popular and victory in hockey was considered almost the most prestigious. However, we simply did not have such hockey before 1946.

Well, you yourself, you understand that without gold in this sport of the USSR, there was nothing to do either in St. Moritz (Switzerland) in 1948 or in Oslo (Norway) in 1952.

For reference. Canadians were the ice hockey champions of the 5th and 6th Winter Olympic Games.

Team Canada - Olympic champion hockey. St. Moritz (Switzerland) 1948

Rather, the final birth.

The first attempt to be born was in 1932. There were even several meetings with the German Fichte club of the German Workers' Sports Union.

First there were two friendly matches (without spectators): the Moscow team - Fichte and Dynamo (Moscow) - Fichte. Muscovites won both with a devastating score. Then there were 3 official matches. The first took place on January 11, 1932, in which CDKA beat Fichte 3:0. And then the second team of Moscow dealt with the Germans twice 6:0 and 8:0.

What kind of hockey it was, it’s hard to imagine now, but judging by what Physical Culture and Sport wrote (No. 9, 1932), it was clear that we don’t need such hockey either:

“The game has a purely individual and primitive character, is very poor in combinations and in this sense cannot be compared with bandy. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ...»

And really, why? When the USSR already had its own, beloved by millions and even more Russian hockey - bandy, or as it was called "Bendy".

"Dynamo" Moscow - the first champion of the USSR in bandy 1932

So, for 13 years, ice hockey was forgotten.

However, time passed and the country's sports leadership decided to ignore the verdict of the weekly "Physical Culture and Sport". And already in 1945, the resolution of the Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, appeared:

"It is necessary to immediately put this Canadian hockey on Russian rails."

It was entrusted to bring it to life Sergey Alexandrovich Savin, who after the war served as head of the football and hockey department of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR. And the car turned over. Although where to start was not clear. Lots of questions...

1. What is the point?
2. How to play (game rules)?
3. How to judge?
4. What and how to play?

But, the main one remained the same:

Will a foreign and alien game take root in a country where there is still its own, and still beloved by millions of bandy?

To the credit of Sergei Alexandrovich, the complexity of the project did not frighten him at all. On the contrary, he set to work with such enthusiasm that by the end of 1946 the first USSR ice hockey championship was held. However, everything is in order.

Travel to Latvia and ask what is Canadian hockey

And Savin went to Riga. In Latvia, where Canadian hockey was already fully cultivated, Savin received an invaluable gift - the rules of the game of overseas hockey translated into Russian. Already a small step to the Olympic podium!

Savin also took a stick, gloves, skates, several pucks and footage of pre-war newsreel of the Latvian championship to Moscow.

Live experiment. Real students play hockey

There is a beginning and it inspires. Here is such an elated Savin moved from theory to practice.

A very representative organizational meeting was immediately held. Judge for yourself, representatives of the Moscow, Leningrad and several republican sports committees, heads of departments sports games central councils of voluntary sports societies and departments, representatives of the educational and research institutes of physical education.

In addition, well-known coaches and players of Russian hockey. : Alexander Igumnov (Spartak), Arkady Chernyshev and Mikhail Yakushin (Dynamo).

All those present were introduced in great detail to the principle and essence of the new game. They were given to understand what broad opportunities it gives for the development of the Olympic movement.

I didn't have to explain twice. The opinion was unanimous: - We will try ...
However, the question: will the people accept, remained still open. Here we decided to "live experiment".

Any experiments, as you know, are best done on students, so they did.

From among the students of the State Central Institute of Physical Education, two teams were created, with which systematic work began to prepare them for demonstration matches.

The work was carried out very painstakingly. Photos and translations of articles from Canadian, Swedish and Czechoslovak newspapers and magazines were carefully studied. The masters of Russian hockey were invited, who in 1932 managed to taste the “puck” and who immediately appreciated it, despite the general negative.

Come on, let's take a look at the curiosity!

February 1946. Small stadium in Petrovsky park. The semi-final match of the second post-war USSR Cup in Russian hockey, in which two of our super clubs met - CDKA and Dynamo Moscow.

The match has just ended (CDKA won), but thousands of spectators do not disperse. Their attention was drawn to a radio announcement that a Canadian hockey demonstration game was about to take place. The reaction of the audience was mixed, some were skeptical, some enthusiastically welcomed, and most were just curious. In any case, all remained.

Stayed and weren't disappointed. The audience liked the new game. About what the audience informed the participants and organizers with grateful applause.

First USSR Ice Hockey Championship

Demonstration performances and the first “FOR” of the people are, of course, very cool. However, this is not enough for development. Any development requires competition. You need a competitive spirit.

This was well understood in sports leadership and work began on organizing and holding the first ice hockey championship of the USSR.

• Watching educational films
• Newsletter of rules and regulations
• Gatherings of players and coaches
• Referee training
• Workouts, workouts, workouts
• …. first posters

And the tournament took place. Contrary to rather modest forecasts, applications were submitted by as many as 12 teams:

The draw was held in mid-November. All participants were divided into three preliminary groups:

"A" - TsDKA (Moscow), Air Force (Moscow), House of Officers (Sverdlovsk) and House of Officers (Leningrad);

"B" - "Spartak" (Moscow), "Dynamo" (Riga), "Dynamo" (Tallinn) and "Dynamo" (Leningrad);

"B" - "Dynamo" (Moscow), "Vodnik" (Arkhangelsk), Kaunas (national team), "Spartak" (Uzhgorod).

And the army teams of Moscow and Sverdlovsk were the very first to take to the ice. They played on the field of the Dynamo Small Stadium. In the presence of thousands of Muscovites, CDKA won 11:5.

From the memoirs of S.A. Savina

This match is still in front of my eyes. The guys, in my opinion, felt more like students than mature masters. Far from everything worked out during the duel: sometimes the puck obviously did not want to obey the players, it was as if tied to the ice - most of the athletes, especially those from Sverdlovsk, were not yet able to tear it off the surface. I'm not talking about the fact that no one had a clue about such things as power struggles, changes in the course of the struggle, etc. And yet, when, having completed the struggle, the teams left the field, all ten thousand fans watching duel, staged a hot, prolonged ovation. She was addressed this time not to any goalkeeper or forward, not even to any team, but to the game - a new game that these people liked and now acquired the rights of citizenship.

I won't go into details now about the first USSR championship. Let me just say that it was very interesting and kept the intrigue right up to the last meeting, which took place January 26, 1947. CDKA and Dynamo (Moscow) fought for the championship. Dynamo won 2:1. Here are the newsreels. Watch and rejoice.

It's good to see that, right? In any case, we now have an idea of ​​what ice hockey was like in the bud.

Here he is the first champion of the USSR in ice hockey.

Have you noticed that Dynamo became the first champions of the USSR in both Russian and Canadian hockey? Let's rejoice for them...

Well, friends, that's all. A start was made. Then there was a second season and a third. Then they went international.

And studied, studied and studied again

And they learned. They learned to throw on top, they learned to win face-offs, they mastered power moves, they learned to think. In general, we learned to play in such a way that the people no longer had a question

Why do we need this Canadian hockey?

And in the press, instead of libelous articles, very interesting “debriefings” of matches began to appear, which are now a great pleasure to read. 🙂

Finally, my friends are specially posting a selection of newspaper reports from the USSR championship of the 1948-1949 season. Read, drive into the past! 🙂

Note …. 17 degrees below zero. Resistant still our fan

It was not particularly popular, however, the attempts of some sports clubs to join the game led to the fact that in 1911 Russia joined the International Ice Hockey League, created three years earlier (the International Ice Hockey Federation existed under this name until 1978), but this the step had no effect on the popularity of the game, and soon Russia left the organization.

In 1953, the USSR national team was preparing to participate in the World Cup, but the injury of the team leader Vsevolod Bobrov forced the Soviet leadership to refuse to participate. A year later, the USSR national team made its debut at the world championships and sensationally won the world title, even defeating the favorites from Canada. During the 1950s, a kind of hockey derby formed between the USSR and Canada, but the story changed in 1961, when the Canadians did win the gold medals. The USSR missed the next World Cup for political reasons: the GDR team was not allowed to the World Cup, since the US State Department refused to issue entry visas to players due to the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the teams of the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Romania joined the protest.

Until 1972, the USSR national team consistently won world championships. IIHF rules did not allow professional players to compete in the World Championships and the Olympics, which angered Canada, which boycotted the World Championships in 1970. In 1972, the Super Series took place between the USSR national team and the Canadian national team, and the latter was represented by star players from the NHL. 8 games have passed, 4 of which were won by the Canadian team (in last match Canadians pulled out a victory 34 seconds before the end), 3 - the USSR national team and one more game ended in a draw. In 1976, the USSR team suffered a sensational defeat from the Polish team at the start of the World Cup, losing 6:4.

In 1980, the USSR national team, which by that time had won 5 Olympics and 16 world championships, suffered another sensational defeat from the US team, which became known as the Miracle on Ice. The Americans, whose team was made up of students, outplayed the most experienced Soviet players with a score of 4: 3 and won gold medals - this was the second time that the USSR team did not win gold medals at the Olympics. In the 1980s, Soviet hockey underwent changes: against the backdrop of glasnost and democracy, criticism of the national team coach, Viktor Tikhonov, intensified, in addition, players received the right to play in the NHL since 1989. Since 1992, the Russian national team has been considered the successor of the USSR national team.

Hockey

Fully realize the significance and grandeur of the Soviet victories on international tournaments The 50s is possible only knowing about the long and thorny path that the "Canadian", as it was then called, hockey in our country had to go through. It was a difficult and not entirely desirable child of his time. For a good 15 years, disputes have not subsided whether the Soviet Union needs this sport, whether we will be able to achieve at least some results in it.

At first, ice hockey looked like a very weak and dim alternative to Russian hockey, sweeping, rollicking, combinational, smart - "football on ice", as it was called in one of the Soviet publications. "The game is purely individual and primitive, very poor in combinations and in this sense does not stand up to any comparison with bandy. The question of whether we should cultivate Canadian hockey can be answered in the negative ..." - this is a quote from the magazine "Physical Culture and Sport" 1932 of the year became a classic, very clearly characterizing the attitude of the then press and the townsfolk to alien Canadian fun.

It's hard to believe now, but imagine that time! There has not yet been a great match "Montreal" - CSKA, there was no Super Series-72, there was no World Cup-54, Canada Cup-81, "Miracle on Ice", there was not all modern and historical hockey in its magnificence and diversity! The author of those famous lines was guided by two matches between the second team of Moscow, making its first steps in hockey, and the German club Fichte, which did not claim to be a strong European team. If you call a spade a spade, it was just a yard game in which even the great bandy masters looked strange and awkward. What are the combinations...

However, if you look into history a few decades ago, you can see that they tried to play Canadian hockey even in the Russian Empire. In 1911, several then-existing sports clubs organized the All-Russian Hockey Union, which was accepted as a member. International League ice hockey (future IIHF). The idea was unexpected and even in some sense inappropriate. And it was explained, according to some sources, by the fact that our athletes did not understand which hockey league they were joining. They thought that in the bandy league, it turned out - no. It is not surprising that the VHS was expelled from the organization in the same year and soon dissolved itself, without taking part in any tournament.

At the same time, there were regions in the vast country where "Canadian" has been played since the "zero" years of the twentieth century. The debut of hockey in the Russian Empire happened in 1908 in Riga, where the teams of the Shooting Park and Union met. The result of that meeting is unknown, but after the separation of Latvia from Russia, the Baltic republic did not give up the hobby, joined the LIHG and even took part in the world and European championships.

The second coming of Canadian hockey to our land had to wait until the 30s. The club of the German Workers' Sports Union "Fichte" came to Moscow and brought with them sticks and pucks unfamiliar to our athletes, unusual ammunition, offering the hosts to hold several friendly games.

Soviet footballers, who usually played Russian hockey in winter, had to perform in a new capacity for themselves. Quickly learning about the rules, they easily smashed the Germans in two meetings. The exact results of these fights with the participation of the Moscow team and Dynamo have not been preserved, it is only known that more than a dozen goals flew into the gates of the German team in each of the matches. When it was the turn of the CDKA to measure strength with Fichte, the army team won a calm and confident victory - 3:0. This game is considered to be the first official hockey game in Soviet history.

Although the Canadian game did not develop in the 1930s, after the visit of "Fichte" our athletes still had equipment that was used for some time as study guide at the Central Institute of Physical Education. By the way, just the students of this institute in 1946 held demonstration games in ice hockey at the Dynamo stadium, foreshadowing the start of the first national championship.

He played a huge role in the development of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Sergei Alexandrovich Savin, head of the football department at the USSR Sports Committee, vice-president of FIFA. Despite the passion for the green lawn and soccer ball, Savin sincerely liked the new sport, since 1946 he led the work on its promotion and distribution in the USSR. It is impossible to say what would have happened to our hockey if not for this man, great organizer and manager. He started from scratch in every sense of the word. In Moscow then there were no pucks, no ammunition, no rules, no information - nothing that could be relied upon when creating clubs and tournaments.

Someone advised Savin to go to the Baltic States, where, before the war, according to rumors, outlandish ice hockey was played. Sergei Alexandrovich returned from Riga with skates, a stick, a puck and a small booklet of rules in Latvian. With these items, the rise of Canadian hockey ("shinny" - as it was then called) began in the Soviet Union. The Russians, the masters of Russian hockey, were involved in the new sport - Arkady Chernyshev, Anatoly Tarasov, Vsevolod Bobrov and many others. Some later became famous coaches and players, others failed to join this ice sport. In many respects, disputes and disagreements are connected with this fact, which did not subside even during the first national championships.

"A number of our most outstanding hockey players, bandy masters - Mikhail Yakushin, Pavel Korotkov, Alexander Igumnov, Valentin Granatkin - did not play well,— wrote Anatoly Tarasov. — And if the greats don't succeed... In a word, there was something to think about. But the better we know the new kind sports, the more they were addicted to it, the stronger was the desire to master it, to learn how to play for real. Moreover, we understood and believed that our youth would like it. After great victory we wanted to win in sports, to master all the heights here too".

That's what "psychology of winners" means! The Soviet Union, which had won the Great War, was also going to instill in its citizens exclusively victorious traditions in sports. And even the obvious impracticability of the mission to spread Canadian hockey in our country did not stop the enthusiasts. We have done everything to make this sport born a second time. Not in Canada - in the USSR.

At the end of May 1946, the country's sports calendar included a training session for coaches and judges, which was to be held in Arkhangelsk from November 20 to September 18. A few months later, a historic decision was made by the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports to hold the USSR championship in the 1946/47 season. Soviet hockey could be congratulated on its birthday.

The final recognition, however, was still very far away. Russian hockey, oddly enough, turned out to be the main opponent and competitor of the new sport. Some journalists and experts of that time, watching bandy lose its former authority and popularity, tried to stop this process. In "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in 1948, a bright accusatory note "Legal Question" was published, which criticized sports officials who allegedly abandoned "people's" Russian hockey for the sake of the bourgeois "Canadian", and journalists "choking with delight when describing Canadian hockey championships ".

And yet, despite the angry and harsh nature of the note, it only emphasized the decline of Russian hockey and its relegation to the background in comparison with new game. "Soviet Sport" quickly and quite easily refuted the theses of the "Legal Question", emphasizing that the USSR would create its own, Soviet style of Canadian hockey, and the "bourgeoisness" of this sport is extremely doubtful.

The discussions continued for quite some time, but fate had already made its decision. It was Canadian hockey that was destined to become fully "Soviet". Pride, greatness and glory of our country.

The initiative of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to hold a remake of the famous 1972 Super Series between the national teams of the USSR and Canada is rapidly gaining popularity. In the coming days, the hero of those matches, and now the president Russian Federation hockey Vladislav Tretyak will meet on this occasion with counterparts from the NHL. While the technical details are being agreed upon, Izvestia decided to find out how the fate of the participants in the legendary matches turned out.

Izvestia obtained a unique table telling about the fate of hockey players and coaches who participated in the 1972 Super Series. It illustrates the deplorable situation more vividly than any words: out of 32 Soviet participants in those matches, ten did not survive to this day - almost one in three. And the life of the vast majority of those living today is defined by the dry word "pensioner".

Another thing is in Canada. There even Main coach Harry Sinden, who is now well over 70, is the general manager of one of the NHL clubs. And almost all the players did not part with hockey after the end of their careers. As the famous noted with sadness Russian coach Vladimir Yurzinov: "For Canadians, unlike us, farewell to hockey does not mean the end of life."

On the contrary, the center forward of the strongest trio of the USSR national team at that time, Vladimir Petrov, in a conversation with Izvestia, on the contrary, continually clarified: “This one, although a pensioner, still plays for the veteran team. And this one too.” He stumbled on a single surname - Vladimir Vikulov. After a long pause in the address of one of the most technical hockey players of the 60-70s, the phone sounded: "It's hardest with him. He drinks."

In 2002, terrible information was published in a number of newspapers. Having learned that all participants in historical matches would be awarded a prize, Vikulov decided to arrange a holiday for his friends, which almost ended in tragedy. In a state of intoxication, he fell into a fire, was badly burned, but turned to the doctors only two weeks later. It was September 2nd outside. Ironically, it was on this day that the USSR national team won its first victory over the Canadians in Montreal.

“It’s not clear why it all happened with Vladimir,” another famous striker, Boris Mayorov, is surprised. “After all, during his career he was a teetotaler: he didn’t drink a glass while he was a hockey player. And there’s no need to talk about disorder after a career. "Spartacists, at the end of their careers, were practically thrown out into the street, and everyone had to choose their own way. CSKA hockey players were military personnel, they had a rank. But Vikulov took to drink just then, although he was placed in an army sports school. As far as I know, he was demobilized from the army even before retirement and fired from CSKA - all for the same reason."

But the fate of the army defender Vladimir Lutchenko developed according to the "Canadian" scenario. In 1981, he ended his career and, according to the tradition of those years, received a position in the sports school of his native club. With the beginning of perestroika, not only hockey players began to leave overseas, but also coaches, functionaries - Lutchenko turned out to be one of them. He settled in the United States: he worked as a coach for a long time already in the Boston Bruins system, and then received an offer from the New York Rangers. Until now, he works as a scout in this team.

For Canadians, the goalkeeper made the most dizzying career Ken Dryden. His rational mindset showed up even when he defended the gates of Montreal and the Canadian team: three years after the Super Series-72, Dryden published the book "Hockey on highest level"At the end of his career, Ken combined the work of a television commentator, a teacher at the University of Toronto and an employee of the Ministry of Education. Then there was a transition to politics. At the beginning of the last decade, Dryden became one of the candidates for the leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada and could well be one of the country's top leaders But in the end he was content with the post of Minister of Social Welfare.

Name Paul Henderson was familiar to Soviet viewers almost better than to specialists from overseas hockey. The Super Series became the Canadian striker's finest hour: with seven goals scored, he was the team's record holder, and his accurate throw 34 seconds before the siren of the decisive eighth match in Moscow brought the team an overall victory. The fact that he, a Super Series hero, was never inducted into the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame was a blow to Henderson. Paul criticized striker Bobby Clark, saying that he deliberately injured Valery Kharlamov, putting the striker out of action until the end of the series. "Bob, you landed a low blow," he snapped angrily. When the ardor subsided, Paul took up the bottle and drank heavily, which caused numerous conflicts with the owners of Toronto, who eventually escorted the brawler out of the club.

Henderson would have ended his life in one of the Canadian taverns, if not. Christian teaching. It was it, by Henderson's own admission, that set him on the right path. Paul was imbued with religion to such an extent that he became a preacher. Now no one recognizes an athlete and rowdy in a handsome pastor.

USSR national team

Team Canada

Source: Izvestia. RU

Denis! Didn't score, but what a pass! And I didn't visit! Our "welcome" protection scared away: (((

Denis will score! And the Dean's Muse will be visited, with Fartuna !!!

72!!! Nothing comparable in hockey has ever happened! Yes, and sports in general, one, two, three, you can only remember. A leap into the 21st century by Bob Beamon? ?? I don't have any other examples.

Denis, and you in pieces :))

Bagheera: I already told you that I can’t read a lot there at once - I get tired. Let Velik score today and good!)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Bobrov's breakthrough * Whirling, with a nose slightly * potatoes - * in the village he would * have an accordion, * and he plays football, and he - * hockey. * When with a deceitful turn * he went to the Dynamo * gates, * he was already having a bite * with a swallow * of his "Kazbechin" Micah. * Who is a dribbling genius, * who is a feint, * and he stuck like a Finn * through the protection of props. * And he will remain happily * the robber genius of the breakthrough, * immortal Vsevolod * Bobrov! * Through and through - that was Bobrov's law, * the coaches puffed crimson. * but Beaver was inexplicable. * And with someone who always hits * it’s dangerous, * a genius should be nearby * a pass - * so Fedotov was next * to him, * He knew one thing, swirling * Sevka, * that without the ball the net will turn sour. * Not descending to fuss, * in a numberless T-shirt * freestyle played football not * protocol - * football truly * football, * where they score, damn it! * In his strokes on the move, from the summer * there was something from the Russian song. * Protection, wet with sweat, * clung to a T-shirt and shorts, * but he left anyone, * Chaliapin of Russian football, * Gagarin of pucks in Rus'! * And the goalkeeper trembled * Chelsea. * Dropped artificial * jaw * haughty lord with longing * in the face. * Again they broke and grabbed, * but from the pins on the ice * flew off, * shaking the gates of the LTC. * Kept evil, held * tenaciously. * Talent is the highest mark, * when they cut on the legs, * but even for a genius it is not sweet * honor of steps and overlays, * flowers with kicks in half. * And someone with stupid joy * was already yelling: “Bobrova * from the field!” * try not to change yourself, * when they care so cheerfully, * that all the edges are processed * and again, then a bunch, then a meniscus. * Rude mediocrity, * cowardice envy * and the genius still slips away * going forward to storm the gates. * Well, the rude man played * and sinks * and the genius plays even then, * when he stops playing. * And again fly up * hats * following the flight of the ball and the puck, * as if the flight of other worlds, * and forever - Russian, * native, * on the field of people's memory * Vsevolod Bobrov plays

In hockey, he is the only player who scored ten goals in one match (with the Arkhangelsk "Vodnik").

Bobrov Vsevolod Mikhailovich was the coach of the USSR national hockey team in 1972-1974, which became the world champion under his leadership in 1973 and 1974, led the USSR national team when it first played a series of matches against Canadian professionals in 1972. Admiring the art of coaching Bobrov Vsevolod Mikhailovich, the Canadians awarded him a special gold medal.

In a blog with a sign "How the life of the heroes of the Super Series-72 USSR-Canada happened" it is written about Vsevolod Bobrov: he died. And that's it. Chaliapin of Russian football and Gagarin of pucks in Rus died in 1979. By the way, he played both against Chelsea and against Arsenal. For six years he combined football with hockey. 97 football and 332 hockey goals. Olympic champion! I will not list all the titles and achievements, they will not fit here. In Canada, there is hardly a person comparable to the "Breakthrough Genius"! DC: He scored against Chelsea! Welliton: you can too!!!

What do you remember about Super Series 72? Tretiak: Perhaps everyone. You see, what's the matter, despite the fact that the Canadians formally won, the losers in those matches could not be a priori. You look today at the game in the NHL. She became completely different. Less dirty and at the same time more combinative. North Americans then saw that, it turns out, interesting hockey is played in Europe. This gave a huge impetus to the development of our sport. Then, the hockey players with whom we played then and whom, to be honest, we frankly hated, are our best friends today. Fre "nk Maho" vlich, Ivan Cournoyer, Ken Dryden, Stan Mikita - we constantly communicate with everyone. We remember, we laugh. - For you, those games were the best in your career? Tretiak: They became the most outstanding. I can only compare the 1972 Super Series with the abyss. We didn't know who we were playing with. Complete suspense. Plus a terrible responsibility. It was a kind of maturity test. Western experts predicted us defeat by 0:8. And everything turned out completely differently. I can talk endlessly about those matches. Without a doubt, they conquered the world. - http://www.rg.ru/2010/11/03/ho ckey.html

reminiscing about crushing defeat Russian team from Canadians in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Olympics, the general manager of the Canadian team in Vancouver admitted that the team was specially selected and prepared for the meeting with the Russians. “Our main goal in the tournament was very clear - to win the gold. Any other outcome home ice would be a failure for us. We understood that on the way to the top, a meeting with the Russians was inevitable. In the two previous World Championships, I closely watched how the Canadian team lost gold medals to the Russians. We drew conclusions from those defeats, and hockey players appeared in our team, capable of resisting such players as Ovechkin, Semin or Datsyuk. True, I will make a reservation: they selected the composition not only “under Russia”. Although this task was the key one,” Aizerman said. - http://rus.ruvr.ru/2010/11/02/31203970.html