Vsevolod Bobrov
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov (Russian: Все́волод Миха́йлович Бобро́в, IPA: [ˈfsʲevələd bɐˈbrof]; 1 December 1922 – 1 July 1979) was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Soviets ever in each of those sports.[1]
Originally a football player, he played for
After his playing career, Bobrov coached both football and ice hockey. He coached the Soviet national team in ice hockey, most notably during the 1972 Summit Series against Canada. A renowned athlete, he was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame when it was founded in 1997. The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), a Russian-based league, has one of its four divisions named after Bobrov.
Early life
Bobrov was born in Morshansk on 1 December 1922 and moved to Sestroretsk in 1925, along with his parents and two siblings.[3] He first started to skate at the age of 5, and played bandy from a young age. He left school when he was 13 in order to work in a factory.[4]
Playing career
Football
After serving in the Soviet Army during World War II, he was invited to play football for the Army club CSKA Moscow in 1945. That same year, he joined Dynamo Moscow on their 1945 tour of the United Kingdom; he scored 6 of the 19 their goals, and it was on this tour that he saw artificial ice for the first time.[4] Playing until 1953 for CSKA, VVS, and Spartak, he would go on to win the Soviet Championship three times, scoring 97 goals in only 116 games. Bobrov led the country in goals in 1945 with 24 and 1947 with 14. Chronic knee problems led to him having surgeries in 1947, 1950, 1952, and 1953, to fix the issue, though it never was resolved.[5]
He was capped three times for the
Ice hockey
Bobrov began playing ice hockey for
Internationally Bobrov played for the
Bobrov, who served as a player-coach in both sports during his time with VVS, would go on to coach various teams after retiring as a player in both football and ice hockey. In the latter, he coached the USSR in the
Later life and legacy
Bobrov died in
The Kontinental Hockey League, a Russian-based ice hockey league, has one of its four divisions named after Bobrov.[11]
References
- ^ Manuel Veth (30 January 2018). "Vsevolod Bobrov – The Individual Within the Collective". Futbolgrad.com. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ "Vsevolod Bobrov". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ Prokhorov 1969
- ^ a b c Martin 1990, p. 38
- ^ a b Martin 1990, p. 39
- ^ Martin 1990, p. 36
- ^ Martin 1990, pp. 40–41
- ^ Martin 1990, p. 37
- ^ MacAskill & Welsh 1992.
- ^ Bektemirov, Farid (5 June 2011). "Во славу ИИХФ. Часть 3. Всеволод Бобров". Championat (in Russian). Moscow, Russia. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ KHL (2017). "About the KHL: Divisions". KHL.ru. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
Bibliography
- MacAskill, Robert; Welsh, Kenneth (1992), Summit on Ice (film), Toronto: CBC
- ISBN 0-385-25272-2
- Prokhorov, A. M., ed. (1969), "Бобров, Всеволод Михайлович" [Bobrov, Vsevolod Mikhailovich], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) (3rd ed.), Moscow: Sovetskaya Entsikolpediya
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2010). "Ice Hockey: Men". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 25.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- Vsevolod Bobrov at National-Football-Teams.com
- (in Russian) Profile and Statistics at People.ru
- (in Russian) Profile and Statistics at FootballFacts.ru
- (in Russian) Profile and Statistics at Rusteam.Permian.ru
- (in Russian) Biography at Football99.ru
- Bobrov at Hockey CCCP International
- Vsevolod Bobrov at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)