Biography and Firsov

The athlete three times became the most valuable player in the internal championship and was recognized as the best striker of the national team at the world championships, and years. Having played matches for the national team, Firsov scored a goal against rivals and won 3 gold of the Olympiad and 8 titles of the world champion. Childhood and youth Anatoly Vasilievich Firsov was born in Moscow on February 1.

The family lost the breadwinner who died at the front during the Great Patriotic War, when the future hockey player was a month. Mother worked as a teacher and brought up three children alone, trying to provide them with a worthy future. Anatoly Firsov in his youth, most of the time, Anatoly was left to himself, he became interested in hockey with the ball and in adolescence played in the position of the defender of the courtyard team.

Due to the lack of money, Firsov himself made clubs from improvised materials, and his skates were blades tied to boots with an ordinary rope. Poverty did not prevent the boy from becoming one of the best players and at the age of summer participate in matches against boys and adult men. Having become older, Firsov became interested in the puck hockey and at first experienced difficulties, mastering the technique of the game with a longer club.

The first team of Anatoly was the Red Bogatyr club, where the athlete improved the skills of assists and the implementation of acute moments. The hockey talent of the young Firsov was noticed, and soon he became a member of the Moscow Spartak, and when it was time to serve in the army capable of a hockey player, Anatoly Tarasov’s coach Anatoly Tarasov took under his wing. The hockey player Anatoly Firsov during the year the athlete worked hard to gain the necessary physical shape and master the technique of “club - horse -club”.

The coach decided that in height and weight cm, 70 kg of Firsov was the attacker’s position and put him in three young players Vladimir Vikulov and Viktor Polopanov. Such a combination became the main attacking force of the team, and soon Anatoly with partners was invited to the USSR national team. In the year, the hockey player participated in the victorious world and European championships held as part of the Winter Olympic Games in the Austrian Innsbruck.

Anatoly Firsov in the USSR national team inventing new combinations and receptions, Firsov became the most valuable player of the club and the national team and regularly repeated the debut success for the main hockey competitions. In addition, he was the only hockey player who was allowed to be wielded with a bent edge with a club. Possessing an incredible force of impact, Anatoly Vasilievich became a nightmare for goalkeepers and the “universal soldier” of the Soviet ice squad, whom the journalists called "legend number 11".

From the year, CSKA won the country's championship, and the national team rose to the upper step of the pedestal at the world and European championships up to a year. Firsov was recognized three times the best striker of international competitions and included in the list of 34 best hockey players of the Soviet Union. In addition, the athlete became a six -time owner of the European Champions Cup, who scored 14 goals into the gates of titled rivals.

Anatoly Firsov at the Olympiad at the Olympiads and years Anatoly Vasilievich helped the national team win the championship title, recording 2 goals and a certain number of dangerous moments and effective programs. In the year, when Vsevolod Bobrov became the coach of the national team, Firsov was made to understand that they no longer need his services, and the national team, who had lost the most valuable striker, was defeated at the World Championship in Prague.

At this time, Firsov received proposals from several foreign clubs, but the Soviet government forbade the hockey player’s transition and, after the scandal, made him a disorder for a long time. While still the current player of CSKA, Anatoly began working as an assistant to the head coach of the capital's club, and from the year he took the post of mentor of a young team who won a bronze medal at the World Cup.

The coach Anatoly Firsov in the year was published a book entitled “Light the Victory of the Light”, in which Firsov spoke about the game past and coaching present, and also shared his thoughts about Soviet sports and his representatives. Having left the youth team in the year, Anatoly Vasilievich led children's hockey teams until the end of his life, and contributed to improving the state of health of the population and modernizing sports facilities in the rank of people's deputy.

Anatoly Firsov, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin and Anatoly Tarasov in the year of an outstanding striker were included in the Hall of the International Hockey Federation, and in the year the sports leadership founded the Firsov award, annually awarded the best player of the major league. Firmov’s personal life in the year met his future wife Nadezhda, who became his faithful companion for a long 40 years.

The woman supported the athlete in difficult situations and helped to experience hardships and vicissitudes of fate. Anatoly Firsov with his family about his own biography outside hockey, the CSKA striker preferred not to spread, some details became known after the death of the striker from the interview of his son Anatoly Anatolyevich Firsov.The death of Anatoly Vasilievich’s personal life in the year in the personal life of Anatoly Vasilyevich - his beloved wife Nadezhda died of cancer.

Despite the support of children and grandchildren, the hockey player could not cope with the loss and a month after the funeral suffered the first heart attack. Doctors saved Firsov, but a month later there was a heart attack that led to a fatal outcome. This happened on July 24 at the family of the family near Moscow, the ambulance arrived unable to reanimate the athlete, but only stated death due to cardiac arrest.

The grave of Anatoly Firsov and his wife Anatoly Vasilievich was buried next to his wife in the village of Firsanovka. During the year, his grave was a hill with a simple wooden cross. The deplorable state of the last shelter of the legend of the Soviet and world hockey attracted the attention of the press, and on November 1, a monument was erected in the form of a granite slab crowned with a cross in the cemetery near Moscow.

On the main facade of the tombstone, the striker’s photo portrait and the years of victories at the Olympic Games are knocked out, and on the back - images of Firsov and his wife. Titles and rewards, - the Olympic champion - the world champion, - the champion of the USSR, - the Order of the Badge of Honor, - the owner of the Cup of the USSR - the owner of the European Champions Cup - the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.