The famous Soviet hockey player Tretyak Vladislav Aleksandrovich, whose biography will be briefly described in this article, is a three-time Olympic champion and a ten-time world champion, which is why he is inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records. No matter that his career ended more than a quarter century ago, he still remains the most famous hockey player in the world and the idol of millions of fans.
The beginning of the path (numbers that say a lot)
Vladislav Tretyak, whose photo you can see in our article, was born on April 25, 1952 in the Moscow region. He was a sports child, and following the example of his older brother, he became interested in swimming, and then diving.
From the age of 11, Vladislav began to play hockey at the sports school of CSKA. There he was trained by Vladimir Efimov, who was replaced in 1967 by Anatoly Tarasov. In 1968, he made his debut in a match against Spartak as part of the CSKA team. And in 1969, in a match with Finland, he already played in the national team.
Imagine - the great goalkeeper played 482 matches in the championships of the Soviet Union! He played 117 games at the World Championships and the Olympic Games, 11 times participated in the Canadian Cup tournaments, five times turned out to be the best among hockey players of the USSR and three times - Europe. Four times the talented athlete was recognized as the best goalkeeper in world championships.
Love and sport
The International Federation of fans called him the best goalkeeper of the 20th century. Vladislav Tretyak at the age of 17 already stood at the gates of the USSR national team - this, by the way, is an unprecedented precedent in the history of world hockey! And for 10 years in a row, the coaches took him to every match, because Vladislav was considered absolutely indispensable. The goalkeeper himself with a smile says that his wife helped him to be at his best all the time.
The Tretyakov’s house holds many letters in old shabby envelopes. The wife of Vladislav collected them for a long 12 years, while her husband was at sports camps or competitions. And the hockey player himself reread them before each match, because he really needed the warmth, love and support that were stored in these letters written by his beloved woman.
How did Vladislav Tretyak and his wife meet
Incidentally, at one time this couple was knocked on the old fashioned way, for the eyes. Mom’s girlfriend praised the young Tanya so much that Vladislav eventually realized: he couldn’t get away from this girl, and agreed to meet her. Although at that time he was, in general, not interested in novels - the Olympics in Scarborough were approaching.
By the way, Tanechka was very late on her first date, because she did not have time for the train, which is why Vladislav had to wait an hour for her, standing on the square of three stations. The girl was very worried, because she did not know what that guy looked like to whom she had been so diligently wooed. But Vladislav Tretyak, seeing such a pretty girl, decided that he would be with her all his life.
Family is getting bigger
The wedding was played a month later. After the wedding ceremony, the young hockey player went to the training camp, although his thoughts were, of course, very far from sports. And, probably, that's why in the last game he missed as many as 9 goals! By the way, this was observed by representatives of the NHL, who decided unequivocally that in front of them was a real “hole”. Such a conclusion in the future will cost them dearly, because in future games Tretiak will show the real miracle of goalie art.
As expected, 9 months after the wedding, the first-born in the family appeared - Dmitry. Vladislav widely celebrated the birth of his son with all his teammates (thank God that they had no fees then!). And in 1977, another child appeared in the family - daughter Irinka. But at that time Vladislav Tretyak was in America, and when a telegram came to him, the Americans immediately brought in his room a drink and ice cream cake. But since the next day the goalkeeper was supposed to play, the feast did not work.
Being a wife of a famous hockey player is also a talent.
In her interviews, Tatyana Tretyak often says that being a wife of a celebrity is a big job, because she put all her life to learn not to be jealous of her husband for hockey (although the wife of the goalkeeper laughs that she did not understand hockey). But she learned something else - to make sure that her husband always wanted to be at home, because there his wife’s delight and her words were waiting for him: “You are my best!”
Incidentally, in the 70s, Vladislav Tretyak, whose biography was brought to your attention, was a real idol of the nation, and from all sides of the vast country bags of letters from enthusiastic admirers came to him. Every second woman confessed her love, claiming that she dreams of giving birth to a child and becoming a faithful wife. Probably only a wise woman could calmly relate to this, with a smile perceiving endless confessions.
By the way, such families have only two options - either to live as neighbors under one roof, and then part, or to make the man always want to return to his nest, because he knows they will understand and console him there. It was such a nest that Tatyana's wife managed to create for Vladislav. When Tretyak decided to leave the sport in 1984, she was incredibly glad that they would finally begin to live together like an ordinary family.
But, alas, her joy was premature, since Vladislav soon received an offer to become a children's coach in Chicago. And the family began to live now in 2 countries - 2 weeks at home, 2 weeks in America.
Vladislav Tretyak: the family is getting bigger
By the way, the son of Tretyak Dmitry did not follow in the footsteps of his father - he became a dentist, married, and in October 1996 became the father of Maxim’s son. The proud grandfather immediately declared that he would definitely make an excellent hockey player out of his grandson. And his words came true to some extent, since now Maxim is also a hockey goalkeeper and plays in the CSKA team, and in 2014 he was accepted into the Russian team.
According to Vladislav, Maxim gives great hopes, he is very hardworking and, of course, in love with the game (although, of course, the grandson often gets nuts from the famous grandfather, because Tretyak Sr. is the toughest critic of Tretyak Jr.).
And the daughter of Vladislav Irina, having graduated from the Institute of International Trade and Law, became a lawyer. In August 2001, she had a daughter, Anya, and in September 2006, another was Masha. And so the Tretyaks became three times grandfather and grandmother.
