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Why I became a hockey player? I confess, before I never thought about it. But once I was asked to tell how came the love of hockey, and I ... I couldn't answer this question.
Just as a child I spent a lot of time on ice. And then one day my hands were putter.
To become an athlete, you need to love your sport. And you have to live somewhere close to the stadium. I grew up in Leningradsky Prospekt area, near the Palace of sports CSKA, and it is this circumstance is largely influenced the choice of their sport career.
Hockey - game technically complex. There are many conventions and conditions. Hockey is not as natural as jumping, swimming and throwing.
In hockey there is a prerequisite: first you need to learn how to skate.
To ride I started early. The first coach was his father, Boris S., mechanic-pilot. He took me permanently to the competition of factory teams.
The father took care of me in those moments when I was skating: ice I felt confident. For ride with as long as I can remember. My parents worked. My mother - Oribe Abat Hermine - arrived in the Soviet Union a twelve year old girl in 1937.
We lived in a wooden house, because I was all the time on the street, riding on a snow-covered roads, polished passing cars to ice conditions. Initially mastered the "snow maiden", then "eider".
Hockey really got me interested in the beginning of 1963, when I saw on TV the world Championships held in Stockholm, where he began the series of victories of Soviet hockey players. The series, in which I played.
Once in our yard appeared hockey, I started to play with the older guys.
CSKA I got thanks to these guys. I learned about the fact that CSKA occurs periodically record wanting to play hockey, every year is set in the nursery school.
Set this at that time was not as big as now. Adopted me Boris Pavlovich Kulagin.
I started badly with deception. I was then small, and therefore was able to impersonate thirteen: children born in the forty-eighth, is no longer accepted. Participated we only friendlies, learning the basics of hockey.
But the first match on the audience I played earlier, not waiting for next winter, and in the Palace CSKA before the match teams.
Father can't stand lies and because dad told my coaches that I lied to them that I was forty-eight.
Thought'd kick me out, but forgive me, probably because my deception harm could be managed.
Consistently rose from team to team is the second, then the first team boys, third, second, first, boys.
Medical help I didn't ask, but I was afraid that one day my secret may be disclosed: the fact that I was not able at that time to be of help. In 1960 I brought a sore throat in the severe form, the disease has brought complications: rheumatism of the heart. And asked.
Help I took where he was listed as rheumatica. Explained to the doctors that have long played hockey that the disease apparently surrendered.
Played with desire, tried.
There was a time when I missed a workout.
Everything went smoothly, without Blatov and downs, as from class to class passed from one age group to another, but now it is the turn of the first youth team, I began to invite male, and I found myself faced with the problem of choice.
In team CSKA all the seats were occupied. Played great masters of the older generation. Played and talented youth. In the youth team with me were promising guys who concerning the physical conditions, the level was, in the opinion of the coaches, not worse, but better than me.
Be happy it was nothing. I am nineteen years old, and I am far from the main part. But Almeev, remembered I was seventeen in the team.
In March 1968, I was summoned to CSKA.