One of the talented athletes in the galaxy of Soviet hockey players was Sergey Yashin. Being the Olympic champion and two-time winner of the world championship, this technical, fast and self-confident forward has achieved a lot in his life. Unfortunately, by the will of fate in the NHL, he was no longer in his best years, and therefore he failed to play at the highest level. However, he nevertheless achieved what all hockey players (both Swedes, Canadians, and Americans) dream of trying on Olympic gold.
Childhood
Sergei Anatolyevich Yashin was born in Penza in 1962. The boy began to play hockey from the age of seven. Sergey Yashin, whose biography from the very first years is connected precisely with the role of the striker, from this age he was able to reach heights that were inaccessible to many of his peers. He had an excellent technique. The boy absorbed all the basics of skill that he received from his wonderful teachers. And therefore, in 1978, as part of the Penza team, he already became the silver medalist of the Spartakiad.
The coach of Moscow Dynamo drew attention to the productive striker. Chernyshev, who understood the breeding like no other. He immediately noted the outstanding data and abilities that Sergey Yashin possessed. Soon he was offered to move to the capital. Since 1980, Yashin became the striker of the Moscow club and did not leave Dynamo until the nineties of the last century. The coaches of the “blue and white” team at that time made up the youth three of the best forwards, into which Sergey entered.
Yashin - national hockey player
As part of the Moscow club, the eminent athlete won many different dignity medals, among which was even the gold he earned in the last season. Judging by observers, it was Yashin who was the protagonist of the 1990 championship. After all, his puck was a turning point during the legendary match with Chemist.
In the USSR team Sergey was also able to show himself from the best side. Coaches have long turned their attention to this promising striker. In the team in the late eighties, there was another change in composition, when new, younger players came to replace the old ones.
A promising striker in the national team was very welcome. He joined the team quickly, immediately winning his first world championship. 1988 is considered to be special in the sports life of Sergei Yashin, when the country's main team once again received Olympic gold. She managed to win the first nine matches, losing only to the Finns.
Honored Master of Sports
Sergei Anatolyevich Yashin always believed that a better team of the USSR than the one in which he played did not exist. Being an honored master of sports, he was always considered an example of a striker. Short in stature, stocky Yashin showed good speed, he perfectly mastered the technique of techniques, combining speed and power breakthroughs.
Of course, Sergei was less emotional than some of his teammates, but his accurate and cold calculation combined with the most accurate movements made it possible for 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, Sergey Yashin moved to the NHL, where he was immediately intercepted by an oil club from Edmonton. The hockey player moved into the richest league with his colleague and old friend Anatoly Semenov. But for some reason, Yashin’s career in the NHL did not openly ask: in the main team he played very rarely. Soon, the eminent striker returned to Moscow, finally abandoning the NHL. Almost immediately, he was invited to Germany, where he began to play in Dynamo Berlin, periodically returning to his homeland in order to play for SKA and Neftekhimik.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Olympic champion Sergey Yashin began coaching the German Rostocker Piranhas, and then the Dutch Pekoma Grizzlies. But according to him, the main thing for him today is not hockey, but his family. It was to his wife Anna and daughters Catherine and Irina that he decided to devote the rest of his life.
