Vladislav Tretiak was a legendary Soviet ice hockey goalkeeper who played from the 1960s to the 1980s. He led the Soviet Union to gold medals at three Olympic games and numerous World Championship titles. Tretiak is considered one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time due to his incredible athleticism, discipline, and success representing the Soviet Union on the international stage. After retiring from playing, Tretiak has worked as a coach for Russia and helped establish youth hockey programs.

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In 2000, the International Ice Hockey Federation of the best hockey
player of the XX century is named Vladislav Tretiak, the first Europeans
in 1997 , got into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
" After playing the first half of the series , our press vengeance chided
Canadian forwards. But blamed for nothing ... We, on the second
goalkeeper , Ken Dryden , goalkeepers professionals have played in
these matches with Russian as amateurs. Vladislav Tretiak - as a
professional top class . And if he wanted it to perform in the NHL, any
club would be willing to sign a contract with him ... "( Canada 's
goalkeeper Tony Esposito in an interview after a series of USSR Canada 1972 ) .
" Vladislav Tretiak - a man with a thousand hands and a thousand
eyes. His reaction is fabulous ! "( Guy Lafleur , forward eminent club of
the National Hockey League ," Montreal Canadiens " in 1971-1984 , a
five-time winner of the Stanley Cup ) .

3. "I - the goalkeeper . My element - the
boiling passions rink . I love the feel in the
midst of hockey battles, when the whistle
and thump of the wooden bead washer
when the sparks fly out of skates , and the
hot breath of the athletes , it seems , is
about to melt the ice. I love it when the
voltage heart is ready to jump out of my
chest and sweat veiled eyes and insanely
stands, and attack opponents as the waves
rolled on my gate . I love hockey, because it
is - my life . "( Vladislav Tretiak )
A great hockey player , as well as a great
artist or a great musician , of course, to be
born . But to become them , are necessary ,
in addition, a phenomenal ability to work
and discipline , strong nerves and intuition
based on an exact calculation and
knowledge of the enemy. And, of course ,
luck ...
Vladislav Tretiak was lucky - eleven-year
boy, he was admitted to the CSKA Moscow
hockey school ! Become a member of this
famous club was a dream of almost every
boy in Moscow. Many of the candidates on
the day chosen four .

4. September 1972 will go down in the history
of the world of hockey thanks to a brilliant
series of games, which met for the first time
Soviet and Canadian professional ice
hockey players . The heroes of this series
have become Valery Kharlamov, Vladislav
Tretiak, A.Yakushev .
1974 - A new series of games with
Canadian professionals . After that Moscow
is the documentary " Vladislav Tretiak
against Bobby Hull ." 1975 . - Super
meetings with the strongest NHL clubs .
The convincing victory of Soviet athletes. In
addition, there were also gold at the
Olympics in Innsbruck - 1976 . and the
victory at the World Championships in
Prague in 1978 . The seventies were a true
triumph of our hockey . The world's best
team , the best goalkeeper in the world !
1970 - Tretiak first time participating in the
adult world championships in Stockholm,
and in 1971 in Switzerland took his claim as
the main goalkeeper of the USSR. At the
same time, Tretiak was awarded the title
"Honored Master of Sports ." 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo , Vladislav
became the youngest Olympic champion.

5. Much later, in 2000. , Handing Vladislav award "
National Olympus" , the astronaut Sevastiyanov
says: " In the sixties all the boys wanted to become
Gagarin , in the seventies - everyone wanted to be
Tretiak "! In 1980 , after the insulting defeat at the
Olympic Games in Lake Placid ( our team then got
only a " silver "), Tretiak was determined : 'll return
Olympic "gold" , and the big sport can go. His word
, he , as always, kept in February 1984 . Soviet
hockey players from Sarajevo once again left the
Olympic champions. For Wladyslaw it was the
fourth Olympics! And very few people knew that
resulted Vladik hockey hankering to get a hockey
shape - the same beautiful , like the two disciples of
his mother - a teacher of Physical Education Tretiak
Vera Petrovna. She herself used to play hockey
with a ball and even performed at the Moscow
championship in the women's team. Father Alexander Zhukov, a former military man, a hard
man , and above all appreciated the discipline , set
a condition: to play hockey in the first two. Perhaps
that is why twos at Vladislav Tretiak since then was
not - neither in school nor in hockey or in life .
In 15 years, capable of a hockey player for the first
time noticed the AV Tarasov, head coach of CSKA
Moscow , and in 1969 it was he who insisted to
include seventeen goalkeeper of the national team
in hockey . Tarasov explained his choice of
exceptional data Tretiak , his diligence , and his
devotion to hockey . "Do you think playing hockey
hard? - Loved ask Tarasov . He himself said, easy
to play . Train hard ! " Exercise so that the load was
sick every day , 1350 hours a year! And never in all
my sporting life Tretyak never missed a workout!

6. A December 22, 1984 Tretyak last time out
on the ice and took his place in hockey
gates . 15 years, he was the undisputed
goalkeeper N1 CSKA and the country ( by
the way , the famous number 20 Tretiak still
considered lucky in many goalies hockey
teams in Russia and not only). Now was to
start a new life . Behind - not just hockey
glory , but also studied at the Institute of
Physical Education , and then in the
Military-Political Academy.
13 years Tretyak worked Athletes'
Commission of the International Olympic
Committee. The experience that has gained
Vladislav hockey in difficult battles ,
fortunately, also was back in demand. At
the Olympics in Nagano in 1998. and at the
last Olympics in Salt Lake City - Vladimir
Tretiak Russian hockey coach .

7. In 1998 he created the Foundation "International Sports
Academy Tretyak ." Long-cherished dream come true
keeper of the famous : now he will be able not only to
educate overseas athletes and hockey masters of the
national team , but also to help hundreds of talented
Russian boys to prove themselves on the international
hockey tournament that regularly , twice a year in Moscow
and Tver , Chicago , Cleveland , and other cities
Foundation organizes Tretiak .
 A personal example of Vladislav Tretiak , his discipline ,
self-discipline , the will , the fate of his illustrious sports that's something that could not be more needed today for
the education of a new generation of Russian athletes.
 And who knows, maybe in a tournament held in his direct
participation , grow our new Tretiak, Kharlamov Maltsevy
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