Vladislav Tretyak biography of hockey player. Vladislav Tretyak: biography, photo, family. In the youth club: the birth of a goalkeeper

Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretyak. Born on April 25, 1952 in the village. Orudevo (Dmitrovsky district, Moscow region). Outstanding Soviet hockey player, goalkeeper, coach, statesman and politician. Deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation from United Russia, member of the State Duma Committee on physical culture, sports and youth affairs. Since 2006 - President of the Russian Hockey Federation. Reserve Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces.

In the period from 1969 to 1984 he defended the gates of CSKA and the national team Soviet Union. He played 482 matches in the USSR Championship, and 117 games at the World Championships and Olympic Games. There are 11 matches in Canada Cup tournaments.

He was a deputy of the State Duma of the IV and V convocations from the United Russia party.

Vladislav Tretyak grew up a sporty child. Following the example of his older brother, he tried swimming (in the Dynamo pool), then became interested in diving (jumping from a five-meter tower). Every Sunday, together with my parents, I went to the skating rink at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture.

He started playing hockey at the age of 11, at the CSKA Youth Sports School on Leningradsky Prospekt, where his mother brought him. When selecting candidates, coaches checked their skating skills in reverse(Vladislav was already quite good at this technique). He was one of four accepted into the Moscow club. At first, Tretyak played as a striker, but he was embarrassed by the lack of a hockey uniform, which was not enough for everyone. At that time the team did not have a goalkeeper. Then he approached coach Vitaly Georgievich Erfilov and said that if he was given a real uniform, he would be a goalkeeper.

At the same time, the father did not approve of his son’s choice - he said that a hockey player with a stick looked like a janitor with a broom. I finally came to terms with my son’s hobby when he was 15-16 years old. Then Vladislav began to bring home the first money that he was given for games.

In the summer of 1967, CSKA coach Anatoly Tarasov became interested in the young goalkeeper. Tretyak began training with professional players. “I was proud that I lived in the CSKA boarding house on Peschanaya Street, that I was allowed to change clothes in the locker room next to the legendary hockey players,” Tretyak wrote. In mid-July the team left for the south, and Vladislav returned to the youth team.

Together with his team, Tretyak became the champion of Moscow, receiving the prize for the best goalkeeper. Even before this, at the European Championships, the USSR youth team, where Vladislav was the second goalkeeper, took second place. The performance was considered unsuccessful. But a year later, the USSR national team in Garmisch-Partenkirchen achieved success.

Played under number 20.

In the 1968/69 season he made his debut for CSKA in a match against Spartak.

The first game in the national team was at the tournament for the prize of the Izvestia newspaper in 1969 in a match with Finland.

In 1970, he was accepted into the USSR national team for the World Championship, where he became the world champion for the first time. Since 1971 - the main goalkeeper of the national team.

The 1971 World Championship in Switzerland was remembered for the unconventional move of Anatoly Tarasov. Trying to support the team after the first period of the final match of the tournament with the Swedes, with the score 1:2 in favor of the latter, he sang the song “Black Raven”. And this ultimately had an impact on the mood of the players - the game was won with a score of 6:3, and Tretyak became the world champion for the 2nd time.

In 1972, he became an Olympic champion for the first time, playing all the matches and conceding the fewest goals at the hockey tournament. At that time he was the youngest Olympic champion hockey player.

In the spring of 1972 he won silver at the World Championships.

In the fall of 1972, he took part in the 72 Super Series, which the USSR team lost. Tretyak considers the first game in the series, September 2, 1972, one of the best in his career.

In 1974 he played in the super series against the WHA, which the USSR team won.

On December 31, 1975, he played another memorable match - against the Montreal Canadiens. As Guy Lefler later admitted, “neither before nor after that meeting had I ever seen a goalkeeper act so well.”

Member of the CPSU since 1976.

In 1976, Tretyak was entrusted with carrying the flag of the country's national team at the opening of the Games, and following the results of the Games themselves, he became the Olympic champion for the 2nd time. Before the tournament, experts gave the USSR team victory in advance, but the Games were not an easy walk for the team. Although almost all six games of the tournament were won with a clear advantage, these were hard-fought victories. The most intense match was played on February 14, 1976 against the Czechoslovakian national team. Already in the first period, the USSR national team missed 2 goals, and then they were forced to play for 2 minutes with three of them against five opponents. However, the team survived and won the match with a score of 4:3. All other matches were also won, which allowed the team to become the undisputed winner of the Olympic tournament.

In 1980, at the Olympics in Lake Placid, the team, together with Tretiak, unexpectedly stumbled - with the remainder of the round, the team was defeated by the US student team. In that match, Tretyak, a few seconds before the end of the 1st period, after a long throw by Christen (from behind the red line), hit the puck right in front of him. The best American forward, Mark Johnson, slipped between two Soviet defenders, dribbled past Tretiak and scored with a second left in the period. The USSR national team went to the locker room, and the coaches tried to prove that the goal was scored after the end of the period. The goal was counted and the teams had to play out the remaining 1 second of the period. 3 field players and the second goalkeeper Vladimir Myshkin returned from the USSR locker room for a throw-in.

To the surprise of everyone present, it was he who remained in goal in the second period. As the coach of the USSR national team, Viktor Tikhonov, would later say: “Unfortunately, I listened to those who advised me, after Vladislav Tretyak’s mistake in the last minute of the first period, to replace him with Vladimir Myshkin. Then I apologized to Vladislav.” However, after the first goal missed, ABC commentators noted that Tretyak was not in very good shape at the tournament. At the end of the competition, he had the lowest percentage of shots saved among the goalkeepers of the 6 best teams in the tournament: 84% (42 out of 50 shots).

The team failed to improve the situation over the next 2 periods - they scored 1 goal and missed two more. The game ended with a score of 3:4 and went down in hockey history as a “miracle on ice.”

In 1981 - victory at the Canada Cup.

In February 1984, he became an Olympic champion for the 3rd time, winning gold at the hockey tournament in Sarajevo. He played 6 games at the tournament and missed 5 goals. Once again, the main rival of our team was the team of Czechoslovakia, with whom the Soviet hockey players met in the final of the tournament. The game was tense, but generally went according to the scenario of the USSR national team - a victory was achieved with a score of 2:0, and Tretyak kept a clean sheet. At the same time, a record was set - for the first time, a hockey goalkeeper became a three-time Olympic champion.

Dave King, Canada's coach in the 1980s, said of Tretiak's performance: “I've seen good goalies. I saw great ones. But I haven’t seen a goalkeeper other than your Tretyak, who would always be in shape. Anyone else, with such a reliable defense as the Russians had, would have “floated”... Vladislav was always ready for a counterattack. Although it happened that for 7-8 minutes no shots were made at your goal. After which Tretyak repelled three shots in a row, finishing. It seemed incredible. There is no other goalkeeper like him.”

December 22, 1984 Tretiak last time went out on the ice. Tretiak left hockey at only 32 years old because he wanted to devote more time to his family. He asked Tikhonov to allow him to appear at the team’s location the day before the game, but Tikhonov considered that this would violate discipline and refused Tretyak.

In 1984-1986 - employee of the international department of CSKA. Since 1986 - Deputy Head of Department sports games. In the second half of the 80s, he became a deputy of the Moscow City Council for the first time.

In the 1990s he worked for the large Canadian company Bombardier. In 1998 he founded a non-profit sports organization- Vladislav Tretyak International Sports Academy Foundation.

In the early 1990s, Tretiak accepted an offer to become the goalkeeper coach of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. Having worked with Ed Belfort in the offseason, Tretiak helped him improve his level of play. At the end of the 1990–91 season, Belfort received the Vezina Trophy. In the 1992/1993 season, Belfort received his second prize.

In 2000, at the proposal of the President of Russia, he joined the Presidential Council on Physical Culture and Sports.

In 1998 and 2002 he was a member of coaching staff the Russian team, which won silver (Nagano) and bronze (Salt Lake City) medals at the Winter Olympics. He was part of the coaching staff of the national team at the 2004 World Cup.

In 2005, he signed a “Letter in Support of the Verdict” former leaders"YUKOS". In 2011, he signed an Appeal from members of the public against informational erosion of trust in the judicial system Russian Federation.

Since 2011, together with Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Georgy Poltavchenko, Sergei Egorov and Artur Chilingarov, he has been a member of board of trustees International tournament ice hockey Arctic Cup.

Together with Irina Rodnina I lit Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sochi on February 7, 2014.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow English Club.

Personal life of Vladislav Tretyak:

Mother - Vera Petrovna, a physical education teacher, played bandy at the Moscow championship as part of women's team. Father - Alexander Dmitrievich, military pilot, regiment commander in the Chkalov Special Purpose Division (Moscow Region), retired major. Both parents died in 2004.

Married August 23, 1972 to Tatyana. In 1973, son Dmitry (works as a dentist) was born, in 1976 daughter Irina (works as a lawyer).

Grandson Maxim started in the Silver Sharks, and in 2011 he became the main goalkeeper in CSKA (team born in 1996).

He permanently resides in the village of Zagoryansky near Moscow.

Achievements of Vladislav Tretyak:

Triple Olympic champion(1972, 1976, 1984), silver medalist at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
10-time world champion (1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983), silver medalist of the 1972 and 1976 World Championships, bronze medalist of the 1977 World Championship.
9-time European champion (1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983), silver medalist at the European Championships 1971, 1972 and 1976, bronze medalist at the European Championships 1977.
Winner of the 1981 Canada Cup, participant in the 1976 Canada Cup.
Participant of the Super Series-72, Super Series-74 and Super Series-76.
Winner of the Challenge Cup 1979.
The best hockey player of the 20th century according to the International Hockey Federation.
Member of the National Hockey Hall of Fame hockey league(included in 1989, the first of the European hockey players).
In 1997, he was among the first to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
In 2008, he joined the IIHF Symbolic Team of the Century.
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1971).
Confessed 5 times best hockey player USSR, three times the best hockey player in Europe, four times best goalkeeper world championships.
13-time champion of the USSR (1970-1973, 1975, 1977-1984), silver medalist of the USSR championships 1974, 1976 as part of the CSKA club.
Winner of the USSR Cup 1969 and 1973, finalist of the USSR Cup 1976.

Soviet hockey player, outstanding goalkeeper, coach, State Duma deputy, member of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs, reserve colonel. Vladislav Tretiak became famous for defending the gates of CSKA and the USSR national team from 1969 to 1984.

Vladislav Tretiak As a child, I tried swimming and diving, but nevertheless, every weekend I went to the skating rink with my parents. He started playing hockey at the age of 11; his mother brought him to the CSKA school. My father did not approve of this choice. At first, Tretyak played as a striker, but he didn’t get the form, and there was no goalkeeper on the team at that time. The smart boy then approached the coach and suggested that if he got the uniform, he would become a goalkeeper.

At the age of 15 Vladislav Tretiak began to earn his first money, which was given to him for games.

Sports activities of Vladislav Tretyak/Vladislav Tretyak

In 1967, Anatoly Tarasov became interested in the promising goalkeeper, and Tretyak was taken to train with professionals. A year later, the hockey player made his debut in the CSKA team. And in 1970 he was accepted into the national team, and immediately Vladislav Tretiak became world champion. The CSKA goalkeeper became the youngest Olympic champion in 1972.

Vladislav Tretyak played 117 games Olympic Games. Won three gold medals and one silver. Ten-time world champion, nine-time European champion.

In 1984, for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, a goalkeeper Vladislav Tretiak became a three-time champion.

I’ve seen good goalkeepers, I’ve seen excellent ones,” Dave King, coach of the Canadian national team about Vladislav Tretiak, “But I haven’t seen a goalkeeper who was always in shape. Vladislav was always ready for a counterattack. Although it happened that for 7-8 minutes no shots were made at your goal. After which Tretyak repelled three shots in a row, finishing. There is no other goalkeeper like him.

In December 1984 Vladislav Tretiak left hockey. He was only 32 years old, but the best goalkeeper of the USSR felt that he should devote more time to his family. In the 90s, Tretyak worked for a Canadian company, founded the Vladislav Tretyak International Sports Academy Foundation, and was a goalkeeper coach for the NHL Chicago Blackhawks. Vladislav Tretiak was also among the coaches of the Russian national team at the Olympics in 1998 and 2002.

In December 2003, Tretyak was elected to the State Duma from the Saratov region. Member of the United Russia party. Since 2006, President of the Russian Hockey Federation.

Vladislav Tretyak is the first Soviet hockey player whose portrait was placed in the NHL Hall of Fame. He was also recognized as the best hockey player of the 20th century.

Vladislav Tretiak married since 1972. He and his wife Tatyana have a son, Dmitry, a daughter, Irina, and three grandchildren, one of whom, Maxim, plays as a goalkeeper for the CSKA hockey team.

In the film "Legend No. 17" Vladislav Tretiak played Alexander Pakhomov. And in the series “Hockey Games” - Andrey Voroshilov.

We don’t have enough of such a film,” Vladislav Tretyak says in an interview about the film “Legend No. 17,” to educate our youth. It shows how hard it is to get medals, how difficult it is to go through this path of a winner. And it was this film that gave the opportunity to show young people what our famous hockey players did. It is Valera who shows how a coach raised a person who should glorify the country. And the role of coach Tarasov is shown. This film shows a strong, courageous and talented coach who not only raised Kharlamov, but also raised me, I also worked with him as a semi-finished coach for 2-3 years. He always says to me, “Young man, if I make comments to you, you are still alive. What if I don’t make any comments, that’s it, do you see the little nail? Hang your skates there. Tomorrow, train, train.” I knew Valera from childhood, more than others, because we were students at CSKA with him, we played for youth team, although he was older than me. His whole life was before my eyes.

In the period from 1969 to 1984, he defended the gates of CSKA and the Soviet Union national team. He played 482 matches in the USSR Championship, and 117 games at the World Championships and Olympic Games. There are 11 matches in Canada Cup tournaments. Since December 2003 - deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation. Since 2006 - President of the Russian Hockey Federation. Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, reserve.

Childhood and youth

Vladislav Tretyak began playing hockey at the age of 11, at the CSKA Youth Sports School on Leningradsky Prospekt, where his mother brought him. When selecting candidates, the coaches tested their ability to ride in reverse. Tretyak benefited from classes at the skating rink, which he visited every Sunday. He was one of four accepted into the Moscow club. At first, Tretyak played as a striker, but he was embarrassed by the lack of a hockey uniform, which was not enough for everyone. At that time the team did not have a goalkeeper. Then he approached coach Vitaly Georgievich Erfilov and said that if he was given a real uniform, he would be a goalkeeper.

In the summer of 1967, CSKA coach Anatoly Tarasov became interested in the young goalkeeper.

Tretyak began training with professional players. “I was proud that I lived in the CSKA boarding house on Peschanaya Street, that I was allowed to change clothes in the locker room next to the legendary hockey players,” said Tretyak. In mid-July the team left for the south, and Vladislav returned to the youth team.

Together with his team, Tretyak became the champion of Moscow, receiving the prize for the best goalkeeper. Even before this, at the European Championships, the USSR youth team, where Vladislav was the second goalkeeper, took second place. The performance was considered unsuccessful. But a year later, the USSR national team in Garmisch-Partenkirchen achieved success. Played under number 20.

After career

From 1984 to 1986 - employee of the international department of CSKA. Since 1986 - Deputy Head of the Sports Games Department. In the second half of the 80s, he first became a deputy of the Moscow City Council. In the 90s of the XX century. worked for the large Canadian company Bombardier. In 1998 he founded a non-profit sports organization - the Vladislav Tretyak International Sports Academy Foundation. In the early 90s, Tretiak accepted an offer to become a goalkeeping coach for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. Having worked with Ed Belfort in the offseason, Tretiak turned him into a good goalkeeper. At the end of the 1990–1991 season, Ed Belfort received the Vezina Trophy. In the 1992/1993 season, Belfort received his second prize.

In 2000, at the proposal of the President of Russia, he joined the Presidential Council on Physical Culture and Sports.

In 1998 and 2002, he was a member of the coaching staff of the Russian national team, which won silver (Nagano) and bronze (Salt Lake City) medals at the Winter Olympics.

On December 7, 2003, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation from electoral district No. 158 (Saratov district, Saratov region), chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. re-elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation from the United Russia party. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. Member of the United Russia faction.

Achievements

• Olympic champion (1972, 1976, 1984).
• Silver medalist ZOI (1980).
• World champion (1970, 1971, 1973-1975, 1978, 1979, 1981-1983).
• Silver medalist of the World Championship (1972, 1976).
• Bronze medalist of the World Championship (1977).
• European Champion(1970, 1973-1975, 1978, 1979, 1981-1983).
• Silver medalist of the European Championship (1971, 1972, 1976).
• Bronze medalist of the European Championship (1977).
• Canada Cup winner (1981).
• Canada Cup participant (1976).
• Participant of the Super Series-72, Super Series-74 and Super Series-76.
• Challenge Cup Winner (1979).
• The best hockey player of the 20th century according to the International Hockey Federation.
• Member of the National Hockey League Hockey Hall of Fame (1989).
• Among the first to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame (1997).
• Entered the IIHF Symbolic Team of the Century (2008).
• (1971).
• 5 times recognized as the best hockey player of the USSR, three times the best hockey player in Europe, four times the best goalkeeper of the world championships.
• USSR Champion (1970-1973, 1975, 1977-1984).
• Silver medalist of the USSR championships (1974, 1976).
• Winner of the USSR Cup (1969, 1973).
• Finalist of the USSR Cup (1976).
• Twice received gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation (2011, 2007).
• Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2017), "For services to the Fatherland" III degree (2012), "For services to the Fatherland" IV degree (2002), Honor (2010), Lenin (1978), Red Banner of Labor (1984), Friendship between nations (1981), "Badge of honor" (1975). Medals "For Labor Valor" (1972), “For valiant work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970), "60 years of the USSR Armed Forces" (1978), "70 years of the USSR Armed Forces" (1988), "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997), Stolypina P.A. II degree (2016), “For impeccable service in the Armed Forces of the USSR” I, II and III degrees.
• Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1970)
• Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation (2006).
• Order of Salavat Yulaev(2016) - for many years of conscientious work in the field of physical culture and sports, as well as a great contribution to the development of ice hockey in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Kharlamov, Tretyak, Gretzky - three great hockey players of the world Ilya Valerievich Melnikov

Vladislav Tretiak

Vladislav Tretiak

Vladislav Tretyak was born on April 25, 1952 in the village of Orudyevo Dmitrovsky district Moscow region. Vladislav Tretyak is a reserve colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as an outstanding hockey player, goalkeeper, coach, statesman and politician. Deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation from United Russia, member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. Since 2006 he has been president of the Russian Hockey Federation.

Since 1969, Vladislav Tretyak defended the gates of CSKA and the USSR national team. He played in 482 matches of the Soviet Union championship, 117 games at the World Championships and Olympic Games, and 11 matches in Canada Cup tournaments.

Vladislav Tretyak is a three-time Olympic champion (1972, 1976, 1984) and silver medalist at the 1980 Winter Olympics; 1979 Challenge Cup winner.

10-time world champion (1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983), silver medalist of the 1972 and 1976 world championships, bronze medalist of the 1977 world championship.

9-time European champion (1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983), silver medalist of the European Championships in 1971, 1972 and 1973, bronze medalist of the 1977 European Championship. Participant of the “Super Series – 72”, “Super Series – 74” and “Super Series-76”.

Winner of the 1981 Canada Cup, participant in the 1976 Canada Cup.

First European hockey player inducted into the National Hockey League Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto (1997). Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1971).

The best hockey player of the 20th century according to the International Hockey Federation (2000).

Five times during his sports career, Vladislav Tretyak was awarded the title of best hockey player of the USSR, four times he was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the world championships. Vladislav Tretyak is the only hockey player in the world who has won the award for the best hockey player in Europe – the “Golden Stick” – three times. 13-time champion of the USSR (1970–1973, 1975, 1977–1984), silver medalist of the USSR championships in 1974, 1976 as part of the CSKA club.

Winner of the USSR Cup in 1969 and 1973, finalist in the 1976 USSR Cup.

In 1977, he was among the first to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

He entered the symbolic team of the century “Centennial AII-Star Team” of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Vladislav Tretyak is the owner of the following state awards:

1. Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (April 25, 2012) - for great merits in legislative activity and many years of conscientious work.

2. Order of Honor (August 4, 2010) - for services to the development of physical culture and sports and many years of conscientious work.

3. “Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation” (April 20, 2006) - for services in the field of culture and sports, etc.

4. Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (April 8, 2002) - for merits in the development of physical culture and sports, great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples.

5. Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1984).

6. Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981).

7. Order of Lenin (1978).

a. Jubilee medal“60 years of the USSR Armed Forces” (1978).

8. Order of the Badge of Honor (1975).

9. Medal “For Labor Valor” (1972).

Vladislav Tretyak says about himself:

“I am a goalkeeper. My element is a skating rink seething with passions. I love the feeling of being in the thick of hockey battles, when the pucks whistle and thump against the wooden sides, when sparks fly from under the skates, and the hot breath of the athletes makes it seem like the ice is about to melt. I love it when my heart is ready to jump out of my chest from tension and sweat blurs my eyes, and the stands go crazy, and opponents’ attacks roll over my goal like waves. I love hockey because it is my life."

In order to become a great hockey player, you need discipline, will, concentration, phenomenal ability to work, as well as strong nerves and intuition based on knowledge of the opponent’s behavior. And of course, you need luck.

At the end of December 1967 and the beginning of January the first hockey tournament(European Championship) for hockey players under 19 years of age. Then the coach of the Soviet team, an outstanding goalkeeper, said: “In general, I don’t like to lavish compliments on young people (my friends will confirm this), but now I willingly change this rule, I have one boy named Vladik. He won me over during training with his amazing reaction, mobility, and courage. I believe it will be useful." And Puchkov was not mistaken, the boy Vladik later became a world-class hockey star - Vladislav Tretyak. The words of Nikolai Puchkov about Vladislav Tretyak were published in the weekly Football-Hockey in 1967. This is how the name of the future 10-time world champion, 9-time European champion, and 13-time USSR champion appeared in print for the first time.

Vladislav Tretyak was in love with sports since childhood, he ran cross-country, skated, played volleyball and football, jumped from a tower, skied, did acrobatics, gymnastics, overcoming fear, jumped from a five-meter tower. And so that he would not take on everything, he wanted to be the first. One day little Vladik told his mother: “I will definitely be a champion.” “An athlete,” she corrected. “No, only the champion!” Years later, Vera Petrovna and her son recalled this conversation with a smile.

At the age of 11, Vladislav began playing hockey at the CSKA hockey school on Leningradsky Prospekt, where he came with the guys who dreamed of becoming hockey players. The coaches tested the kids' skating skills before taking them to practice, especially their ability to skate backwards. Vladislav could ride in reverse quite well and was selected among four other guys and accepted into the famous club. At first, Vladislav played as a striker and he really wanted to get hockey uniform, which was not enough for everyone. At that time there was no goalkeeper and he approached coach Vitaly Georgievich Erfilov and said that if he was given a real uniform, he would be a goalkeeper. So Tretyak received his first real uniform and then remained for 15 years permanent goalkeeper number one of CSKA and the national team, whose game has always been distinguished by the highest reliability.

In the summer of 1967, CSKA coach Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov became interested in the young promising player. So Tretyak began training with professional players and was very proud that he lived in the CSKA boarding house, that he was allowed to change clothes in the dressing room next to famous hockey players.

Then the team went south, and Vladislav returned to the youth team. He played under number 20. Soon, with his team, Vladislav Tretyak became the champion of Moscow, receiving the prize for the best goalkeeper. In the 1968/69 season, he made his debut for CSKA in a match against Spartak.

In 1969, CSKA coach Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov insisted that seventeen-year-old Vladislav Tretyak be included in the national hockey team. Tarasov explained his choice by Tretyak’s extraordinary efficiency, diligence and fanatical devotion to hockey. “Do you think playing hockey is difficult? - asked Tarasov. And he himself answered: it’s easy to play. Training is hard!” Train in such a way that the load makes you sick, every day, 1350 hours a year.

“From that day my whole life went differently,” writes Vladislav Tretyak. - Tarasov set a goal for himself: to make Tretyak the best goalkeeper. (“The best in the country?” I asked. Anatoly Vladimirovich looked at me in bewilderment: “In the world! Remember this once and for all”). And we started working. Now sometimes I can’t even believe that I could withstand the colossal loads that then fell on my still fragile shoulders. Three workouts a day! Some incredible new exercises, specially invented for me... During the classes, dozens of pucks almost simultaneously flew into my goal, and I tried to hit all the pucks. All! I played in matches almost every day - yesterday for the youth team, today for the youth team, tomorrow for the senior team. And as soon as I missed one goal, Tarasov asked the next day: “What happened? Come on, let's figure it out." If I was to blame, and the goalkeeper is almost always “guilty,” then punishment inevitably followed: everyone went home, and I did, say, five hundred lunges or a hundred somersaults over my head. I might not have done it - after all, no one saw it, all the coaches also went home. But it never occurred to me to do at least one less lunge or somersault. I believed Tarasov, believed every word he said. There was also a punishment if I missed goals in training. The meaning, I hope, is clear: my mentor wanted me not to be indifferent to missed goals, so that I would perceive every puck in the net as an emergency.

The coach constantly convinced me that I was nothing at all, that my success was the success of the whole team. And then I believed him unconditionally. And I think now that if it had been otherwise, then nothing worthwhile would have come of me. I owe a lot to Tarasov. He was a second father to me, this amazing man whom Canadian professionals call “the patriarch of Russian hockey.”

Throughout his entire sports career, Vladislav Tretyak did not miss more than one training session, even if there were failures along the way, he did not become limp, but continued to stubbornly do his job. He developed psychological stability no less consistently than he developed a unique and perfect technique. During the period of growth and improvement athletic ability Tretyak, significant changes were taking place in world hockey: power struggles were allowed across the entire field, sticks with curved hooks came into fashion, which is why throws became much more cunning and stronger, speeds increased, more fighting began to take place on the patch at the goal, forwards going to the goal became more aggressive. finishing, hockey has become more dynamic and sharper. Such a dynamic game required a goalkeeper with lightning-fast reactions and virtuoso technique, able to predict various opponent combinations. Such a goalkeeper was expected in world hockey and Vladislav Tretyak became it.

In 1970, Vladislav Tretyak was accepted into the USSR national team for the World Championships in Stockholm, and for the first time became world champion. Since 1971, he has become the main goalkeeper of the national team. The 1971 World Championship in Switzerland was remembered for the unconventional move of coach Anatoly Tarasov. Wanting to support the team, which at first was leading 2:0, and then began to lose, just before going on the ice, he sat down on the bench and, as if for himself, sang: “This is our last and decisive battle...” The hockey players’ eyes became wet. Nothing more needed to be said, the team was eager to hit the ice and won with a score of 6:3! The team goalkeeper was not even nineteen years old.

In 1972, Vladislav Tretyak became an Olympic champion for the first time at the Olympics in Sapporo. He was the youngest hockey player - champion. In 1972, Tretyak won silver at the World Championships.

Vladislav Tretyak was the first goalkeeper from hockey team Soviet Union who had the opportunity to meet with foreign hockey players who were considered high-class professionals and were at an unattainable height. Back then no one had any idea that Vladislav Tretyak would become one of the main participants in the matches Soviet hockey players with Canadian professionals and the event of those years will become long years the most important events in hockey life.

When negotiations were just underway about a match between the teams of the Soviet Union and the NHL, a representative of one of the Canadian trading companies in Moscow, who was interested in Soviet hockey, said, consoling: “I think that the score 0:8 in a meeting with any NHL club will be honorable for your team... “Of course, our hockey players, coaches and millions of fans were worried before the trip to Canada.

In the fall of 1972, a legendary meeting between two teams took place and Vladislav Tretyak took part in meetings with Canadian professionals in the “Super Series - 72”. On September 2, 1972, there are hundreds of fans in the stands of the Montreal Stadium. Canadian hockey players attacked our goal with lightning speed, destroying everything in their path. Television fans and Vladislav Tretyak himself saw nothing but the giant Exposito dancing with his stick raised up. Another six minutes passed and now the second goal was in the goal, and only then did television viewers see that the Canadians’ attacks began to break up against the stone barrier that goalkeeper Vladislav Tretyak represented for their pucks. At times it seemed that he could not get out from under the pile of bodies storming his goal, but no, he got out and was again ready to take the puck shot. The confidence of the goalie and defensemen, who worked and fought right at the goal line, gradually transferred to the forwards, who gradually lost their fear of the legends of Canadian hockey. Zimin and Petrov equalized the score, and then Valery Kharlamov scored magnificent goals. As a result, the Canadian professionals lost to the Soviet team with a score of 7:3. Tretyak considers their first game with the NHL team one of the best in his career. sports career. The heroes of the series were Valery Kharlamov, Alexander Yakushev and Vladislav Tretyak.

1974 again brought fame to the Soviet goalkeeper and turned out to be very happy for him. At his fifth world championship in Helsinki, he received a fourth gold medal and was named the best goalkeeper of the championship for the first time. The captain of our team, Boris Mikhailov, said then: “Everyone played well, but Tretiak was, of course, the best.” A little later, journalists named Vladislav, also for the first time, the best hockey player in the country in 1974. Having received recognition, Vladislav Tretyak trained as selflessly as if he had to win a place in the army club and in the national team again and again. He continued to play a lot, sometimes too much, but he could not do otherwise.

In 1974, meeting in a new series with Canadian professionals, the victory again went to the Soviet Union team. Tretiak was enthusiastically greeted in Canada. Playing against the Canadians, Tretiak performed miracles on the ice. Experienced coaches and journalists did not hide their admiration for the young athlete and his ability to understand the playing style of professional forwards, as well as his ability to take even powerfully fired pucks into the trap. Even if Tretyak hit the puck, he rose from the ice with lightning speed and took the only correct and invulnerable position to block the path of the puck. At the end of the match, the famous Canadian goalkeeper Jacques Plante presented him with his book with the inscription: “To the greatest goalkeeper I have seen in the game.” After the return of the hockey players, the documentary film “Vladislav Tretyak vs. Bobby Hull” was released in Moscow.

In 1975, Tretiak participated in another memorable match - against the Montreal Canadiens. As Canadian striker Guy Lefler later said, “neither before nor after this meeting have I ever seen a goalkeeper act so well.”

In 1976, at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Tretyak carried the flag of the country’s national team, and according to the results of the Olympic Games themselves, he became the Olympic champion for the second time. The most intense match was the match in Czechoslovakia, at the beginning of which the USSR team missed two goals, and then was forced to play in a numerical minority of 3 x 5. Nevertheless, the USSR team won and beat the Czechoslovakians with a score of 4: 3, becoming the winner of the Olympic tournament. After another victory of the Soviet team at the Moscow World Championship in 1979, the famous Canadian coach Dave Bauer exclaimed: “Vladislav Tretyak is the sparkling pinnacle of that inaccessible “fifteen-thousander” whose name is Soviet hockey!”

In 1980, the USSR national team in Lake Placid suffered an unexpected defeat from the US student team. In that match, Tretyak, a few seconds before the end of the first period, after a long-range throw by Christen, hit the puck right in front of him. Best Forward American team managed to slip between two Soviet defenders, dribbled past Tretyak and scored a goal a second before the end of the period. The USSR national team went to the locker room, and the coaches tried to prove that the goal was scored after the end of the period. The goal was counted. In the second period, Vladimir Myshkin played in goal. The national team of the Soviet Union failed to rectify the situation; one goal was scored and two more were missed. The game went down in hockey history as the “Miracle on Ice” and ended with a score of 3:4.

In 1981, training began in preparation for matches in Canada. The Canadians held special training camps, since the issue was about the prestige of Canadian hockey, they declared everywhere that this time the advantage would be on the side of the Canadians. After an unfortunate loss in Lake Placid in 1980, the Soviet hockey player also wanted to show high class games.

Vladislav Tretyak says this about that distant match: “If someone had told us before the start that we would win that evening with a score of 8:1, none of us would have believed it. The Canadians were strong. Moreover, the “native walls factor” was at work. Most fans had absolutely no doubt about their victory. And the score, meanwhile, is 8:1 in our favor. The day before, the newspapers wrote: “The outcome of the final will largely depend on how Tretyak plays.” I gave it my all. And all our other guys showed the maximum of what they are capable of. What happened to the Canadians? In my opinion, they were let down by excessive excitement. They really wanted to show off their game in front of millions of their fans. Very! At the beginning, the hosts had quite a lot of advantageous chances, but could not score the puck. And then, when they themselves missed a few goals, they completely turned sour. I saw this for the first time. Usually professionals fight to the end, no matter what the score is on the scoreboard. I just felt sorry for their goalkeeper, whom the team left at the mercy of our forwards. The fans went wild..." The Cup match was remembered by millions of television viewers in our country; one of the Canadian newspapers, after the defeat of the Canadian team, joked bitterly: "Tretyak cannot be allowed into Canada anymore. He "stole" our Cup."

In February 1984, at the Olympics in Sarajevo, the USSR team won gold and Vladislav Tretyak became the Olympic champion for the third time. For Tretyak this was the fourth Olympiad. He played six games at the tournament, conceding five goals. In the final we played against the Czechoslovak team. The match was tense, but took place according to the scenario developed by the Soviet team. The victory came in a difficult struggle with a score of 2:0. Tretyak kept a clean sheet. At the same time, a record was set - for the first time, a hockey goalkeeper became a three-time Olympic champion.

Canada's coach Dave King said about Tretiak's game: “I saw good goalkeepers. I saw great ones. But I didn’t see a goalkeeper, except your Tretyak, who would always be in shape... It seemed incredible. There is no other goalkeeper like him.” Tretiak's popularity in the homeland of hockey was amazing. Everyone liked his open smile, friendly attitude and friendliness. From the very first matches, Tretiak won the love and respect of Canadian spectators. They were admired by his incomprehensible dexterity, the extraordinary skill with which he caught pucks flying into the goal of the USSR team. Even experienced Canadians had never seen anything like this before. His books were published and reprinted several times. They immediately sold out, the most prominent Canadian statesmen considered it an honor to shake his hand and take pictures with him.

On December 22, 1984, Tretyak took to the ice for the last time. He left hockey at thirty-two: “I left because I was very tired. Fifteen years in CSKA and in the national team. No replacements. Doubles came and went. Three generations of field players have changed. Four Olympics have passed. All important matches were played by me. All world championships. All the Izvestia prizes... Now I can admit: it was very difficult for me to remain the first goalkeeper for 15 years. This is such a burden of responsibility... Ten years ago I was asked: “Well, if it were all over again, would I go into this mine again?” Then I didn’t know what to answer. And now?.. I don’t regret the years left behind me - they were wonderful, one can only dream about this. But all over again? No, even a chill passed through my skin when I imagined..."

The famous goalkeeper wore number 20, and young players still consider this number lucky. Not only hockey glory remained behind, but also studies at the Institute of Physical Education, and then at the Military-Political Academy

Vladislav Tretyak remained faithful to the sport even after leaving. In 1984–1986, he began working as an employee of the international department of CSKA. Since 1986, he became deputy head of the sports games department. In the second half of the 80s, Vladislav Tretyak was a deputy of the Moscow City Council. In 1990 he worked for the large Canadian company Bombardier. In the early 1990s, Tretiak accepted an offer to work in Canada and the United States as a goalkeeping coach for the NHL club Chicago Black Hawks. Having worked with Ed Belfort, Tretiak made him a good goalkeeper. At the end of 1990/1991, Ed Belfort received the Vezina Trophy. In the 1992/1993 season he received second prize. Vladislav Tretyak worked for 13 years on the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee.

In 1998, Tretyak founded a non-profit sports organization - the Vladislav Tretyak International Sports Academy Foundation.

His dream has come true, now he will be able not only to educate foreign athletes and masters of the national team, but also to give talented children the opportunity to prove themselves at international tournaments, which will be organized in Moscow, Tver, Chicago, Cleveland and other cities by the Tretyak Foundation.

The Foundation’s activities are aimed at creating a material and technical base for sports, especially for disabled children, including the construction of new sports facilities. In addition, the Foundation plans to create hockey schools that train goalkeepers, defenders, forwards, figure skating, football, tennis and other sports. The Foundation does a lot of work to support veterans and disabled sportsmen, young and talented athletes, etc.

International youth tournaments for the Vladislav Tretyak Cup, which take place both in Russia and abroad, have entered and become firmly established in practice. The main goal of the tournaments is to strengthen the prestige and authority of Russia in the world sports arena. Currently, the Foundation has more than 19 international competitions, in which 7.5 thousand teenagers from Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Latvia, France, Poland, Canada, the USA, Finland, Switzerland and other countries of the world took part. In 2005, zonal tournaments of the XIX Tretyak Cup took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Saratov, Omsk, Salihard. Top teams these regions, along with the teams of the USA, Canada, and Slovenia, took part in the international finals in Moscow. In the future, the International Youth Tournament for the Vladislav Tretyak Cup will be included in the official calendar of Rossport competitions. Young athletes, who are the future of Russia, are beginning to appreciate and learn the feeling of pride for their country, which is familiar to masters, world and Olympic champions.

At the suggestion of the President of Russia in 2000, Vladislav Tretyak joined the Presidential Council on Physical Culture and Sports. In 1998 and 2002, he was part of the coaching staff of the Russian team that won silver (Nagano) and bronze (Salt Lake City) medals at the Winter Olympics. In 2004, he worked as part of the coaching staff of the Russian national team at the World Cup.

Since 2003, the political career of Vladislav Tretyak began. He is elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation and heads the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. Re-elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the 5th convocation from the United Russia party. In December 2011, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation from United Russia and is a member of the Duma faction of this party.

Saratov medical institutions, with the support of Deputy Tretyak, received the most important medical equipment; the problems of children's and youth sports, problems of the social sphere, etc. did not go unnoticed by him. A significant part of the funds received by Saratov medical institutions with the assistance of Vladislav Tretyak does not come from budget sources – Russian, Canadian friends and fans of the world’s most famous athlete are willing to provide charitable assistance, most of which is intended for the treatment of children.

Since April 2006, Tretyak has been president of the Russian Hockey Federation. Since 2011, together with Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Georgy Poltavchenko, Sergei Egorov and Artur Chilingarov, Tretyak has been a member of the board of trustees of the Arctic Cup International Ice Hockey Tournament.

Vladislav Tretyak’s mother, Vera Pavlovna, was a physical education teacher and played bandy at the Moscow championship as part of the women’s team. Father - Alexander Dmitrievich, military pilot, regiment commander in the Chkalov Special Purpose Division (Moscow Region), retired major. Mom and father died in 2004.

In 1972, Vladislav Tretyak got married. My wife's name is Tatyana. In 1973, Vladislav Tretyak had a son, and now he works as a dentist. In 1976, Tretyak had a daughter, she works as a lawyer. Grandson Maxim has become the main goalkeeper in CSKA since 2011. The wife believes that Tretiak is the most wonderful and unique husband in the world. “He is able to shine not only in the sports arena, but also in all household matters,” she says... “Only love lives in our house!” Let everything else remain at home... I feel like the happiest woman on earth!” says wife Tatyana.

And yet, the house is not a field of activity where Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretyak, the famous hockey player, president of the Russian Hockey Federation and a prominent public and government figure, can find his application.

Vladislav Tretyak’s wife has created a strong rear at home and Tretyak can completely devote himself to the work he loves:

1. render serious help in organizing and conducting various sporting events;

2. construction of sports and recreation complexes;

3. take an active part in supporting children’s and professional sports;

4. maintain contacts with foreigners by working at the Moscow International Sports Academy bearing his name;

5. work in the State Duma;

6. participate in preparation Russian hockey players To international competitions, giving a special place to education younger generation athletes, etc.

The best hockey goalie in the world recently turned 60 years old. For most fans of their favorite game, Vladislav Tretyak is not a prominent public figure. statesman, President of the Russian Hockey Federation and State Duma Deputy, but a symbol of perseverance, courage and invincibility. It is difficult to find another such person who enjoys popular love and respect in the West.

In one of his books, Vladislav Tretyak wrote:

“Looking back at my life, I ask myself: what did hockey give me?

Hockey gave me a great opportunity to get to know myself, appreciate the importance of a team and a wonderful sense of camaraderie, and test how I can act in difficult circumstances.

Hockey helped me understand and appreciate the importance of friendship and mutual assistance, strengthened me physically and mentally, taught me composure and endurance. And most importantly, he instilled a holy feeling of love for the Motherland, clearly showed how dear our beloved Fatherland is to us.

While playing hockey, you will also feel how your muscles fill up, the joy of life, movement, and the desire to play as best as possible appear. After just a few months of training and games, you will see for yourself how much you have changed for the better: you have become more tempered, more resilient, more disciplined, and have become a better student.

So even if you don't become a hockey master major league, then the years spent in hockey will give you the hardening that we all need so much in order to worthily solve the tasks set by life, to successfully work for the benefit of our beloved Motherland.

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