Hockey hero Igor Musatov: biography and personal life

Igor Musatov, in the course of his career, caused considerable resonance among the fans both with his fantastic game and behavior outside the hockey ground, began his long journey to the professionals from the school of Moscow's "Spartak".

Carier start

In the main hockey Spartak institution, Igor Musatov quickly tempered, already in the course of his youth speeches forcing to attract attention to the selection group of "Spartacus." As a result, at the age of 17, the coaching staff decided to test a promising young athlete by releasing it twice on the ice during the 2004/2005 season.

Having very little playing time, Igor was unable to replenish his personal savings bank with effective actions, but left a good impression and the next year he got another chance. However, the second attempt did not come to the attacker in the best way: Igor managed to score only 9 games in 9 matches. But by his actions, he drew attention from the side of the Kazan "Ak Bars", where he moved after the championship.

In the Kazan club, Igor Musatov was able to prove himself much better, quickly discovered the masters of his business. Effectiveness to adjust the forward did not work, but his actions often led to the goals of teammates, because of which the player often appeared on the field. For two seasons Igor went 67 times on the ice, gaining a total of 13 points. In 2008, Musatov decided to change the team and became a player of "Neftekhimik", opening his career in the new competition - KHL.

Road to the KHL

Season in the Nizhnekamsk team turned out at the striker crumpled. Igor regularly appeared on the field, but the successive segments alternated with the failed stripes. The game of the Russian was not impressed by the Tatarstan club, and in 2009 he returned to his native Spartak. The second attempt to play in the "red-white" turned out to be more successful for the attacker. For the first season he took part in almost every match of the Muscovites, 55 times appeared on the ice, and scored 11 points, and the second season, with the same success, he finished already in another team of the KHL - Mytishchi "Atlanta".

In the new club, the player's development continued, and by his arrival he helped Atlanta to even reach the Gagarin Cup final, where they lost to Salavat Yulaev. As a result, after winning the second season for the Mytishchi team, he joined the Ufa club. But to find success in the next club KHL Igor Musatov was not able to, after 1.5 years, replenished his biography already the 7th league team - Yaroslavl "Locomotive".

Scandal and surprise

As part of the "railroad" Igor Musatov, a hockey player with not the best statistics of the goleader, got "transit" through "Neftekhimik", who exchanged the striker for another striker - Maxim Trunev. Nevertheless, to finish the season of 2013/14 Musatov was very worthy, contributed to the third place in the round of the playoffs. However, after the 15th place in the championship and the unsuccessful start in the next championship, in December 2014, the forward broke the contract with "Locomotive", for half a year becoming a player of "Vanguard".

In the Omsk club Igor spent not the best segment in the playoffs, but regularly appeared in the protocols of the matches of the championship, gaining 8 points for 19 games. But this hockey novel was not destined to happen: in the spring of 2015 Musatov was detained in Moscow for a drunken debauchery, because of what he was forced to leave the structure of the "Vanguard". To take to himself the "padded" hockey player decided to HC "Vityaz". Podolskaya team did not become resuscitation for the player. A year and a half later, unexpectedly for many, Igor Musatov joined the Bratislava "Slovan". He became the only Russian in the Slovak team. As reported by the media, the player had offers from HC "Vityaz" and his native "Spartacus", but the contract of the foreign club was more profitable. The first half of the season in the "Slovak" Igor spent quite successfully, for 20 games, gaining 6 points, and this is not going to stop.

Personal life

According to prevailing stereotypes, hockey is considered a very rough and aggressive game - a truly masculine one. One of his opposites is artistic gymnastics, which is associated with femininity, grace and beauty. In the life of the attacker these two opposites united. по художественной гимнастике ( и двукратная - Олимпийских игр!), начали встречаться. In 2012, the press learned that Igor Musatov and Yevgeniya Kanaeva, multiple world and European champion in rhythmic gymnastics ( and two-time Olympic Games!), Began to meet.

The couple did not conceal their relationship, immediately after the 2012 London Olympics the hockey player made an offer to his lover, and in the summer of next year they officially registered. In 2014, Kanaeva made a gift to her husband, giving birth to her son, whom the happy couple decided to name in honor of the grandfather Igor - Vladimir.