Sergey Yashin is a legendary hockey player

One of the talented athletes in the pleiad of Soviet hockey players was Sergei Yashin. Being an Olympic champion and a two-time winner of the world championship, this technical, fast and confident assailant in his life has achieved a lot. Unfortunately, by the will of fate in the NHL, he was no longer in his best years, but because he did not manage to play at the highest level. However, what all hockey players (and Swedes, and Canadians, and Americans) dream about - to try on Olympic gold - it still 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 is connected precisely with the role of the attacker, already from that age was able to reach heights that were inaccessible to many of his peers. He had an excellent technique. The boy absorbed all those elements of skill that he received from his wonderful teachers. That is why in 1978 he was already a silver medalist of the Spartakiad in the Penza national team.

On the effective striker drew the attention of the coach of the Moscow "Dynamo". Chernyshev, who in the selection was understood like no other. 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 an attacker 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 were the youth troika of the best forwards, into which Sergey entered.

Yashin - hockey player of the national team

As part of the Moscow club, the famous athlete won many different dignities of medals, among which there was even gold earned by him in the last season. Judging by the words of the observers, it was Yashin who was the main hero of the 1990 championship. After all, his washer was a turning point during the legendary match with "Chemist".

In the SSSSR team, Sergei, too, was able to show his best. Coaches have long turned their attention to this promising forward. In the team in the late eighties there was a regular change of composition, when the already new players, younger players, came to replace them.

The budding striker in the national team was very helpful. He joined the team quickly, immediately winning his first World Cup. Special in the sporting life of Sergei Yashin is 1988, when the main team of the country once again received Olympic gold. She managed to win the first nine matches, losing only to the Finns.

Honored Master of Sports

Sergei A. Yashin always believed that the best composition of the USSR team than the one in which he played, did not exist. Being a well-deserved master of sports, he was always considered the model of the striker. Short stature, chunky Yashin showed good speed, he was well master of technique receptions, combining high-speed and power breakthroughs.

Of course, Sergei was less emotional than some of his team-mates, but his accurate and cold calculation combined with the most calibrated movements allowed the "red car" to score incredibly beautiful goals. In total, the hockey player held thirty-five meetings at the Olympics and World Championships, scoring seven goals against opponents.

Having finished performing in the Soviet arena, Sergei Yashin moved to the NHL, where he was immediately intercepted by the oilmen's club from Edmonton. In the richest league the hockey player went along with his colleague and old friend Anatoly Semenov. But for some reasons, Yashin's career in the NHL was not frankly asked: in the main lineup he played very rarely. Soon the eminent striker returned to Moscow, finally giving up the NHL. Almost immediately he was invited to Germany, where he began to play in the Berlin Dynamo, periodically returning home to play for SKA and Neftekhimik.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Olympic champion Sergei Yashin began to train German Rostocker Piranhas, and then the Dutch Pecoma Grizzlies. But according to him, the main thing for him today is not hockey, but family. It was his wife Anna and her daughters Catherine and Irina who decided to devote the rest of his life.

Sergey Yashin - director

Few know that a famous hockey player has a namesake. It's about the people's artist Sergei Yashin. Unlike the famous striker, his middle name is Ivanovich. The theatrical figure Sergei Yashin has a very solid track record. He worked as art director of the Drama Theater. Gogol, CDT, Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, etc. As well as his famous namesake, Sergei Yashin is widely known in his field.