The biography of this athlete is like a fairy tale. Or a fantastic story. Vsevolod Bobrov showed unique results on the football field. He aroused the admiration of the audience when he went out on the ice in hockey matches.
Starting conditions
It is always difficult for leaders in team sports to compete. Fans believe and expect the impossible from them. And they pave the daring path to victory, despite the severe injuries. Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov is a famous Soviet athlete. He played football and hockey with equal success. At the same time, he demonstrated the highest technique of individual play. Some experts believe that it was only at that time that such unique personalities were born and raised. During that chronological period when the Soviet country confidently occupied the leading positions in world rankings.
Sevka, as the famous poet called him in his poem, was born on December 1, 1922 in a working class family. Parents at that time lived in the small town of Morshansk in the Tambov region. When the boy was three years old, the family moved to the village of Sestroretsk near Leningrad. In a humorous biography of the athlete, the author noted that Bobrov first got on skates, and only after that he learned to walk. Peers, among whom the future master of sports grew up and was brought up, played football in the summer, and in the winter with the same team - in hockey.
Sports achivments
After seven years, Bobrov decided to get a special education at the local factory school. He easily mastered the profession of a locksmith and went to work in the assembly shop of a machine-building plant. When the war began, the plant was evacuated to Omsk, and Bobrov was sent to a military school. In any situation and in any weather, Vsevolod did not stop playing football. In the victorious 1945 he was invited to the army club team. Already in the first matches of the national championship, Bobrov demonstrated a bright and effective game. He did not leave the field without scoring a goal.
Bobrov was included in the team of the Moscow Dynamo, which went to the games in Great Britain. He managed to score 6 goals out of 19. On his home ground, Vsevolod Mikhailovich successfully combined the game of football and Russian hockey. In 1953, he finally moved to the national ice hockey team. The following season, the Soviet team took first place at the World Championship. And in 1956 she won gold at the Olympic Games. In the Olympic games, Bobrov acted as a playing coach.
Recognition and privacy
The work of Bobrov as head of the national team of the Soviet Union was appreciated by the government of the country - the coach was awarded the Order of Lenin. Vsevolod Mikhailovich was awarded the honorary titles "Honored Master of Sports" and "Honored Trainer".
Bobrov's personal life can be told briefly. He was married twice. The first marriage broke up a year later. The second marriage turned out to be stronger. The husband and wife raised and raised their son. The famous coach died suddenly of thrombophlebitis in July 1979.
