Vyacheslav Fetisov is an Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of Russia, two-time Olympic champion, three-time Stanley Cup winner, seven-time world champion, ten-time European champion, World Cup winner, thirteen-time champion of the USSR, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. And this is not the whole list of titles and regalia of this famous hockey player.
Childhood
Date of birth - April 20, 1958. He was born in Moscow. Parents arrived in the capital from the provinces: father, Alexander Maksimovich, from the Ryazan region, mother, Natalya Nikolaevna, from Smolensk.
Vyacheslav's home until the age of 6 was a barrack, in which, in addition to the Fetisovs, 20 more families lived. Their room was extreme, which allowed my grandfather and father to make a small outbuilding. Vyacheslav's childhood passed there.
First ice
Little Slava learned to skate very early. The first ice for him was frozen water from a column,which stood on a hillock not far from the Fetisovs' house. Draining, it covered almost the entire street with ice. The biography of Vyacheslav Fetisov, whose family has always adhered to a he althy lifestyle, developed just like that, largely due to his early introduction to sports. The father, being a fit and athletic man, often took his son to nearby ponds. It was then that the boy put on skates for the first time. They were double-sliders and tied with twine to shoes. Later, when more advanced eiders appeared, Vyacheslav's joy knew no bounds.
In subsequent years, Vyacheslav Fetisov, whose family moved to a three-room apartment in 1964, learned to play hockey in the yard of his house on Korovinskoye Highway. There, local enthusiasts built a hockey rink, which even had lighting, which was considered a rarity by the standards of that time.
School or hockey
Fetisov Vyacheslav was quite a successful student. For his parents, education has always been a priority. The father, who had been earning his living by physical labor all his life, believed that if his son received a diploma, the life of the latter would be much easier than his own. For parents, having an engineer son was much more desirable than an athlete son. Therefore, before going to training, Slava had to do all his homework. He succeeded in doing this. He perfectly combined morning workouts and studies.
Later he entered the Military Institute of Physical Culture (Leningrad), which he later successfully graduated from. However, once in big hockey, the future champion realizedthat he can no longer do anything else. There was simply no time or energy for that. A parent's dream of having an engineer son was buried.
From the yard team to CSKA
Vyacheslav Fetisov, like most boys of that time, played in the yard hockey team. While participating in the city tournament "Golden Puck", the ZhEK team No. 19, in which Slava was a member, gets into the final. One of the meetings took place on Peschanaya Square. In the same place, CSKA hockey players trained. At that time, the coach of the army was Yuri Alexandrovich Chebarin, who once stayed after a workout and saw a sports battle of ordinary boys from the yard. He noticed Slava's bold and confident game, and two days later the boy, together with his coach mentor Boris Nikolayevich Bervinov, went to training at CSKA. Vyacheslav was enrolled in the team and assigned to the defense.
The famous army hockey school, whose traditions were laid down by the great Tarasov, accepted the talented guy with open arms. No one paid attention to the fact that he got into the team quite by accident. And the coaches quickly came to the conclusion that Vyacheslav is really talented.
Fetisovsky style of play
Being more of an attacker than a defender by nature, Fetisov did not want to play in the usual manner for a defender. This behavior was the reason that his participation in the first away matches of the Soviet youth team in Canada was in question. According to the then coach Nikolai Veniaminovich Golomazov,the main matches should be played by such defenders who do not depart from their gates. And he called Fetisov's game adventurous, because at the first opportunity that appeared, he immediately rushed to the attack. This approach, on the one hand, led to a large number of goals scored, and on the other hand, to flaws in the defense. Today, there is a concept of the so-called "fetisov" hockey style, when the defense game is active, characterized by constant connections to the attack and powerful throws. Hockey philosophy after the appearance in world hockey of a newcomer named Vyacheslav Fetisov (see photo below) has changed. And the hockey masters realized that with the right approach to the training process, his style leads to success.
First victories
Now the life of Vyacheslav Fetisov has undergone many changes. He participates in the main matches of the youth team of the army, traveling around the world. So, in 1974, the young army team won a resounding victory in a match with the Canadians, almost exactly repeating the feat of the "adult" USSR national team. Then, like the big team, they burned at the beginning of the match, conceding two goals in the first minutes. But then the army team gathered all their strength and won with a score of 7:3.
Since 1975, Slava, who at that time was only 17 years old, has been playing in the main army team. The first participation in the world championship dates back to 1977. Then in Vienna he played in tandem with the most experienced Gennady Tsygankov. Despite the youth of the guy, the coaches trusted him and were confident in his game. Fetisov VyacheslavI played then in the top five, which was very prestigious. And a year later, in Prague, where the 1978 World Cup was held, he became the best defender of the tournament.
Sports Career Development
The young hockey player had a lot of fans. Somehow he immediately won the hearts of all the fans. Who would have thought that, in fact, at that moment he was still a newcomer to the team. But it seemed that Vyacheslav had been defending the honor of the country for many years, playing as part of the legendary USSR national hockey team.
Fetisov did not change his corporate style - he fit perfectly into the tactics that distinguished the Soviet hockey team - the “big red car”, which gained respect and admiration among fans around the world.
And since 1981, the triumphant victories of the CSKA team began, which formed the most productive five in the history of hockey. The defense was carried out by a pair of Vyacheslav Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov, the attack was carried out by a trio of Sergei Makarov, Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutov. Such a stellar company did not bother at all, young, by hockey standards, Vyacheslav. And among them, he was the clear leader.
At the peak
Soon Vyacheslav Fetisov, whose biography proves his unique hockey and organizational talent, is appointed captain of CSKA and the USSR national team. Never in his entire more than successful career did anyone even have a shadow of a doubt about the correctness of this decision. Enthusiastic assessments of Fetisov's activities from outsidesports critics and the overwhelming love of fans from all over the world are irrefutable proof that this man is the greatest hero of his time.
In the 80s, Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Fetisov became a truly popular favorite. At that time, he reached all conceivable and unimaginable heights. It would seem that the time has come to end his sports career and rest on his laurels. But Vyacheslav Alexandrovich, having received an offer to play in the NHL, accepted it. There, across the ocean, he started everything from scratch. But, thanks to perseverance, hard work and the desire to reach new heights, Fetisov became one of the most successful players in the NHL, and later a coach.
Return to Russia
In the spring of 2002, Fetisov received an offer from President Putin. Having accepted it, Vyacheslav Alexandrovich headed the State Committee for Sports of Russia. Two years later, he became the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports. But the position of a high official not only did not spoil the character of Fetisov, but, on the contrary, helped to demonstrate all his best qualities. Obvious problems in domestic sports did not frighten Fetisov. Largely thanks to his managerial talent, it was possible to overcome these negative trends and restore the traditions of domestic sports.
In 2008, the main hero of the Russian sports environment was Vyacheslav Fetisov. The biography of this famous athlete, an excellent coach and sports leader, after a half-century anniversary, was filled with new events.
From 2009 to 2012 he was the president of the hockey club CSKA (Moscow).
Now Vyacheslav Fetisov heads the Department of Management and Sports Industry of the Russian University of Economics. Plekhanov. Since 2012, he has been the head of the Russian Amateur Hockey League.
Vyacheslav Fetisov: personal life
This great athlete lived all his life with his wife Ladlena (the name Lada Sergievskaya often appears in the press).
Now Fetisov's wife is the president of the Republic of Sport Charitable Foundation. She, like her husband, participates in projects aimed at popularizing sports in our country. The daughter of Vyacheslav Fetisov and Lada Sergievskaya, Anastasia, was born in 1990. She now permanently resides in the US.
