Biography
Sergey Fedorov is the famous hockey player, three-time owner of the Stanley Cup. He managed to conquer recognition not only in Russia, but also abroad, which provided him with the status status and authority even after deciding to complete the game career.Childhood and youth
Sergey Viktorovich was born in Pskov on December 13, 1969. He was a senior child in the family of a football coach, who later replenished with another son - Fedor Fedorov. In the future, like an older brother, he became a hockey player, but the career was not successful.
Interest in sports originated from Sergey in the early years of the biography when he first stood on skates. Later, the family moved to the city of Apatity, which in the Murmansk region. There, the boy began playing the local team "Apatitstroy" under the leadership of Coach Yuri Bystrov.
The results of a young athlete were not ignored, and soon he was invited to speak for the Minsk team "Dynamo", as part of which he played the 1985/1986 season. And the next year was marked by the transition to Moscow CSKA. With this club Fedorov earned the first point of the highest league, playing against the "Chemist".
Game career
Sergey began at the professional level in the late 80s, when the coach of the Soviet national team Viktor Tikhonov put it, Paul Bure and Alexander grave into one bundle. They had to replace the legendary Trio of Sergey Makarov, Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutov, with which they coped brilliantly, won gold medals in the World Youth Championships in 1989.That same year, the athlete began to attract to the Games for the adult USSR national team. The debut was successful: Soviet hockey players became world champions, and then repeated success in the next tournament. It is not surprising that representatives of foreign teams drew attention to the star. Soon Fedorov received an invitation from Detroit Red Wengs.
To get an athlete turned out to be not easy, because at that time, players from the USSR were forbidden to act abroad. Therefore, Sergey decided to escape. He arrived at the Seattle match as part of the national team, and then flew to Detroit on a private plane. About my plan, the player did not even tell the parents who managed to reach only in two weeks.
Such a bold legend deprived Fedorov's title of the Honored Master of Sports of the Soviet Union, but presented the dizzying prospects and opened the way to success. In the first match for Detroit Red Wengs, he scored a goal, and the season finished already with 79 points and 39 crashed washers. The following years turned out to be no less successful: Sergey confidently led the team ahead and even won the prize "Hart Trofi" as the best player of the season.
Later, 4 hockey players from Russia arrived at the club, which strengthened the composition. Together with Fedorov, they began to call them the "Russian five", loudly declared themselves in the NHL. They confidently won victories, caught a piggy bank of achievements.
The bright was the 1996/1997 season. Then, after going to the ice against "Washington Capitals", Sergey scored 5 goals for one match. In the playoffs of the Stanley Cup, the athlete scored 20 points, which made it possible to get a cherished award that became the team first in 42 years.
Soon after that the term of the contract with the club has expired. Fedorov, who turned out to be a free agent, raised the question of raising the salary, but first received a refusal. Then he arranged a strike that did not interfere with going to the Olympic Games in Nagano as part of the Russian national team. Win the tournament failed.
The leadership "Detroit" still had to be given in when the interest in the star was shown by representatives of Karolina Harrrinjes. It was concluded with the agreement with the condition of paying $ 38 million over the next 5 years without taking into account subscription bonuses. Hockey player managed to justify the funds posted in it, writing to the club for two more Stanley Cup.
Extend the next contract The player flatly refused, because he believed that he was not appreciated in Detroit. He moved to Anaheim Dax, but no longer showed the previous performance, so he was sent to the "Columbus Blue Jackets". In this team, the athlete spent the 1000th match in the NHL, and then moved to Washington Capitals, where Alexander Ovechkin played at that time.
It was not possible to restore former fame, and the player decided to return to Russia. Leaving from the USA, he lost all the accumulated money by contacting fraudsters. One of the chairs continuously in confidence in the star, pretending to be his friend for years, and then convinced to invest money in a business project, which was actually only a cover. According to Sergey, it was hard to wake up in the morning and understand that he had nothing more, but he found the strength to move on.
In 2009, the hockey player went on ice in the KHL League, signing a contract with the Metallurg team from Magnitogorsk. There, Fedorov became one of the leaders, reached the final of the Eastern Conference. He marked at the World Championships in Germany, where the Russians won silver medals. But then the athlete announced the completion of the game career.
Manager
In the spring of 2012, Fedorov returned to CSKA, but already as the main manager. The game team was not always successful, so the star was constantly criticized for the personnel policy and the wrong choice of coaches.
Nevertheless, the hockey player was delayed in this position for 4 years, and when it was abolished, became a selection manager. In 2017, the term of employment contract with a former athlete has expired, but it did not extend. In an interview, Sergey Viktorovich told that he wanted to take a break and relax, but at the same time decided to remain a member of the Supervisory Board of CSKA.
Personal life
In the past, the star was an affair with tennis player Anna Kournogova, which he repeatedly told in an interview. The girl was under for 12 years, but it did not become a problem for lovers. According to Fedorov, they even concluded a marriage that existed for about a year. The cause of the divorce was the incompression of working schedules. But unlike Sergey Anna denies that there was an athlete wife.After parting, a couple in the media wrote about hockey player novels with actresses Jennifer Love Hewitt and Tara Reed. But to gain harmony in personal life managed much later. Now Fedorov is happy in marriage, his wife is Karina. Couple raises two children - Son and daughter.
Sergey Fedorov now
In the summer of 2021, it became known that Sergey Viktorovich was appointed to the post of head coach CSKA instead of Igor Nikitin. The news about it appeared in the club's instagram account along with the photo of the stars. Sports experts responded to the event ambiguously. Boris Majorov noted that the athlete lacks experience as a mentor, so the errors will not be avoided.
Awards and achievements
- 1987, 1988, 1989 - Champion of the USSR
- 1989 - Junior World Champion
- 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003 - Member of the match of all stars NHL
- 1994 - Holder "Hart Memorial Trophy"
- 1994 - winner "Frank J. Selki Trophy"
- 1994 - winner "Leicester Pearson Avard"
- 1997, 1998, 2002 - Stanley Cup owner
- 1989, 1990, 2008 - World Champion
- 1998 - Silver winner of the Olympic Games
- 2002 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games
- 2003 - Holder "Harlamov Trophy"
- 2010 - Silver winner of the World Championship
- 2010, 2011, 2012 - Member of the match of all stars KHL
- 2017 - Included in the list of the 100 Greater NHL players