One of the talented athletes in the galaxy of Soviet hockey players was Sergei Yashin. As an Olympic champion and two-time world champion, this technical, fast and self-confident striker has achieved a lot in his life. Unfortunately, by the will of fate, he ended up in the NHL not in his best years, and therefore he failed to play at the highest level. However, what all hockey players (Swedes, Canadians, and Americans) dream of - to try on Olympic gold - he nevertheless achieved.
Childhood
Sergey Anatolyevich Yashin was born in 1962 in Penza. The boy began to play hockey from the age of seven. Sergei Yashin, whose biography from the very first years was connected precisely with the role of the striker, already from this age was able to reach heights that were inaccessible to many of his peers. He had excellent technique. The boy absorbed all the basics of mastery that he received from his wonderful teachers. And therefore, in 1978, he, as part of the Penza national team, already became the silver medalist of the Spartakiad.
The coach of Dynamo Moscow drew attention to the effective striker. Chernyshev, who understood the selection like no one else. He immediately noted the outstanding data and abilities that Sergei Yashin possessed. Soon he was offered to move to the capital. Since 1980, Yashin became the striker of the Moscow club and did not leave Dynamo until the nineties of the last century. The coaches of the "white-blue" team at that time made up the top three youth forwards, which Sergey entered.
Yashin is a hockey player of the national team
As part of the Moscow club, the eminent athlete won many medals of various denominations, among which was even the gold he earned in the last season. Judging by the words of observers, it was Yashin who was the main character of the 1990 championship. After all, his puck was a turning point during the legendary match with Khimik.
In the USSR national team, Sergei was also able to show his best side. Coaches have long turned their attention to this promising striker. In the national team at the end of the eighties, there was another change in the composition, when new, younger players came to replace those who had already won back.
The budding striker in the national team came in very handy. He quickly joined the national team, immediately winning his first world championship. The year 1988 is considered special in the sports life of Sergei Yashin, when the country's main team once again received Olympic gold. She managed to win the first nine matches, losing only to the Finns.
Honored Master of Sports
Sergey Anatolyevich Yashin always believed that the best composition of the USSR national team thanthe one he played in didn't exist. Being an honored master of sports, he has always been considered a model striker. Short in stature, stocky Yashin showed good speed, he perfectly mastered the technique of tricks, combining speed and power breakthroughs.
Of course, Sergei was less emotional than some of his teammates, but his precise and cold calculation, combined with the most controlled movements, made it possible for the “red car” to score incredibly beautiful goals. In total, the hockey player spent thirty-five meetings at the Olympics and World Championships, scoring seven goals against opponents.
After finishing playing in the Soviet arena, Sergei Yashin moved to the NHL, where he was immediately intercepted by the club of oilmen from Edmonton. The hockey player moved to the richest league together with his colleague and old friend Anatoly Semenov. But for some reason, Yashin's career in the NHL frankly did not work out: he played very rarely in the first team. Soon the eminent striker returned to Moscow, finally abandoning the NHL. Almost immediately he was invited to Germany, where he began to play in Dynamo Berlin, periodically returning to his homeland in order to play for SKA and Neftekhimik.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Olympic champion Sergei Yashin began to train the German Rostocker Piranhas, and then the Dutch Pekoma Grizzlies. But according to him, the main thing for him today is not hockey, but family. It was to his wife Anna and daughters Ekaterina and Irina that he decided to devote the rest of his life.
Sergey Yashin - director
Few people know that the eminent hockey player has a namesake. We are talking about the people's artist Sergei Yashin. Unlike the famous forward, his patronymic is Ivanovich. Theatrical figure Sergei Yashin has a very solid track record.
He worked as the artistic director of the Drama Theater. Gogol, Central Children's Theater, Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, etc. Just like his eminent namesake, Sergei Yashin is widely known in his field.
