Biography of hockey player Kharlamov - stars of world hockey

Kharlamov Valery Borisovich was born in Moscow on the fourteenth day of January 1941 in the family of the locksmith of the Kommunar factory Boris Sergeevich and Arnbe Orbat Hermane, workers of the same plant. Valeria's mother, a Spaniard by birth, in the late thirties, at the age of 12, came to the USSR.

Biography of hockey player Kharlamov is full of bright and memorable events. At the age of seven, he first skated and went out on the ice with his father. In those days, hockey has already become a very common game in our country, second only to football. Many boys of that time dreamed of being like Ivan Tregubov or Vsevolod Bobrov. Was not an exception and Valery. However, on the way to the dream before the boy suddenly there was an obstacle - poor health. At the beginning of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, Valery fell ill with angina. As a result, he received a complication in the heart. Doctors identified the disease - heart disease and actually banned him any activity. He was released from physical education classes, was forbidden to run, lift weights, go to the pioneer camp. My mother reconciled with a serious illness of her son, and my father did not want to think about his disability. Therefore, in the year nineteen sixty-two, he took his son to the hockey section on the summer skating rink on Leningradsky Prospekt. That day Valery became the only lucky person who was accepted into the section.

Biography of hockey player Kharlamov tells that in a short period of time he became one of the best and most active players of the CSKA CSKA and the favorite of coach Boris Kulagin. True, Anatoly Tarasov (head coach of CSKA) treated the young man with some prejudice. The reason for this was a small hockey player's height. In those days, Tarasov made the main bet on tall and large athletes, referring to the strong and huge Canadian professionals, who at that time were the strongest in the world. In this regard, in 1966 Valeria was sent to play in Chebarkul "Zvezda" (second league). There first-rank Kharlamov in one season threw rivals thirty-four goals.

Hockey player Kharlamov, whose biography consisted of high-profile victories, thanks to the efforts of coach Kulagin in 1967, joined the core of CSKA. It was during this period that the famous and legendary troika of great hockey players Petrov - Mikhailov - Kharlamov appeared. At the end of the same year, she joined the second USSR national team. In the year 1916, for the first time in the history of the Soviet Union, Kharlamov, a 20-year-old hockey player, became a world champion, a biography whose photos were published in all the major print publications of the Soviet Union.

By 1972 Kharlamov became the best hockey player not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Europe. In the same year, as part of the USSR national team, Valery won the gold Olympic medal.

Biography of hockey player Kharlamov contains another bright event - the famous series of matches between the Soviet national team and professionals from Canada, which began on September 2 nineteen hundred and seventy-two at the Montreal stadium Forum. As a man who could not lose, Kharlamov was one of the few who believed in the victory of Soviet hockey. But it was this "kid", by hockey standards, who proved to Canadians and the whole world that Soviet hockey is the best in the world.

Biography of hockey player Kharlamov is full of outstanding achievements. He became the only hockey player from Russia, whose portrait is on the stand of the Museum of Glory in the Canadian city of Toronto.

In 1981, the life of the talented athlete was cut off tragically and absurdly. In the car accident, a great sportsman, a caring husband and a loving father were killed. Until now, legends about him tell young athletes those who were lucky enough to live next to him such a short but bright life.