He plowed at the factory, accidentally hit the Great Club, overcome the distrust of Tarasov himself! History of the legend of CSKA Kuzkin

Interesting fate. The legends of CSKA Victor Kuzkin in the system of the strongest team of the country began in deep childhood. The future Olympic champion, which four years engaged in hockey with a ball at the Wings of the Soviets school, ended up at the threshold of the Moscow Army Stadium, largely due to a random coincidence. He played hockey with a puck only in the yard. But one day his school friend Oleg Parinchuk suggested trying to get to the CSKA school. Everyone was well aware of how serious the selection was there. And Kuzkin himself repeatedly admitted that he was sure-he had not the slightest chance of getting there. There was a surprise of a young Victor when he was nevertheless accepted to the CSKA school. It so happened that he simply perfectly spent a training-examiner match. Despite the lack of great experience of playing a hockey with a puck, the future legend of Soviet hockey took his peers alone and stood out brightly against their background. The coaches Alexander Nikolayevich Vinogradov and Boris Ivanovich Afanasyev had no choice but to accept the defender in the team and begin to prepare him for a long and successful career. Interestingly, with his daughter Vinogradov Kuzkin studied at the same school and was engaged in the same volleyball section. But this did not affect the decision of Alexander Nikolaevich – he only learned about all this post -fact. “Alexander Nikolaevich Vinogradov is a very good, sincere person, almost never raised his voice to the players. As a hockey player, I, unfortunately, did not see him. But, they say, there was a very sharp defender. It was always possible to talk heart to heart with him, to entrust all the most secret. Here are Tarasov, for example, completely different. I did not fully tell him despite the fact that he appointed me the captain of the team. And, for example, I could speak frankly with Kulagin, without hiding anything. Tikhonov could not open up to the end, although we always had good relations that are still preserved, ”the defender said. With getting into the CSKA school, everything is clear. But how did Kuzkin reach the team of masters of Moscow army? This, like Victor’s arrival in the club system, was accompanied by some interesting details. Firstly, Kuzkin was still playing in the attack. Tarasov later translated him in defense when the future Olympic champion was already formed by CSKA. Secondly, in the three with Oleg Galyamin and Vladimir Kamenev, Victor won the USSR championship among young men. After that, young guys drew attention to the main team of the country. Moreover, Kuzkin was even going to take the army to the staff of the army to start paying him a salary. But then a promising hockey player encountered problems. “Then I worked at the factory by a student of Tokar. Vinogradov instructed me to quit the factory, but leaving the defense enterprise was not so easy. Mom helped again. I came to the director, wrote a statement – and I was finally accepted to CSKA. It was a great help to our family. Mom received an officially 40 rubles plus an additional award for night duty, it went about 80. And they put 60 in CSKA at once. True, after a year and a half, when the army came, I got a sport, and the salary was removed from me for a whole year, ”the Olympic champion recalled. After that, Kuzkin began to train with the basis of CSKA. But at first, the head coach of the army, Anatoly Tarasov, did not complain to the newcomer. Referring to the fact that for the central striker he has too weak legs. Victor knew about these claims, so he asked for rent to Kalininsky SKA – there he could get a game practice among strong men and pull up physical condition. But Tarasova assistant Boris Kulagin, dissuaded the young man from this step. Referring to the fact that his time will come in a year. So it happened. Anatoly Vladimirovich translated Victor into defense, and he fully met the entrusted expectations, becoming one of the leading players in the defense of CSKA and the USSR national team for years to come. Also more stories about Viktor Kuzkin: