Biography
Andrei Vasilevsky - Russian hockey player, goalkeeper. Despite the large dimensions, the goalkeeper makes a bet on the technique and speed. A man comes to training before colleagues, and leaves later, performing special exercises. This habit has appeared in his childhood.Childhood and youth
Andrei Andreevich Vasilevsky was born in Tyumen on July 25, 1994. Mother Lyudmila engaged in figure skating. The father of the athlete was a famous goalkeeper, advocated "Avangard", "Severstal" and "Gazovik", then became the coach of the Ufa Tollapa, but not immediately. In the break, a man had to work as a freight carrier. Grandmother of the future Player NHL was engaged in athletics and acrobatics, and Grandfather Leonid Ivanovich - football.
Alexey Vasilevsky's elder brother also became a hockey player, performed on the position of defender in the "motorist" from Yekaterinburg. The guy did not have great talents, he successfully successfully, perseverance and fighting qualities. Eva's older sister worked as chief editor of the transfer of a "happy hour" on Bashkir television. In 2013, the woman gave Andrei the nephew Adriana.
When Vasilevsky-older had no orders, he bought beer bottles and passed at an inflated price. Both boys had to wash them. Then Andrei first promised to become famous and rejected so that the family no longer had to live.
Vasilevsky taught the profession at the Father in the club "Salavat Yulaev". When the team lost to the "tractor" in 2006, that the son's long hair is right in the locker room. They say, he needs to think about hockey, and not to fashion. Although, actually, the boy regrets. The goalkeeper is a difficult role, the goalkeepers have a hard form that you have to carry with you everywhere, and the process of putting out forces meat. Field players are constantly changing, resting, and at the gate can not be relaxed for a second. Andrei Leonidovich under 6 years forbade children seriously play sports so as not to spoil the knee joints.
Until the 9th grade Andrei did not show special talents, but then began to win the tournament tournament. And this is despite competition in the children's hockey, where coaches often underestimate the age of players, so they often had to fight the guys larger and stronger.
Hockey
Vasilevsky's sports biography began in "Tolpara" in 2010, and in December 2012, the young man made his debut at the club "Salavat Yulaev", replacing Finn Iiro Tarkki.In December 2011, Vasilevsky was part of the Russian national team at the 2012 World Youth Championship. The goalkeeper went to the ice in the start match, but in the game against Slovakov, the coach Valery Bragin replaced him with Andrei Makarov. Both goalkeepers played in turn, the mentors were reflected in whom to appoint the "first number". In the end, the quarterfinals against Chekhov set Ufimz.
The semi-final with Canadians was not the best, the "red car" lost a concentration, and in the end of Vasilevsky was replaced with Makarov. He also played in the final against the Swedes and showed himself brilliantly. Despite this, the Russians gave way to overtime with a score of 0: 1.
In 2014, Andrei moved to the team NHL Tampa Bay Lighting. The head coach John Cooper promised that the player with such a huge potential would definitely become the main goalkeeper. Vasilevsky himself said in an interview that he did not intend to relax: twenty great players claim to any place for any place, and you are not needed - and you do not need. In 2017, the hockey player became the "first number", concluded a profitable contract with the club and turned into a star of an international scale.
Personal life
From February 2014, Vasilevsky is married to the model Ksenia Sahib-Gareeva. In December 2015, they had a son of Lucas. The father of the athlete approvingly responded about his spouse, calling Ksenia a brought up girl from a decent family. In general, in the personal life Andrei was lucky.
Goalkeeper growth - 193 cm, weight - 91 kg.
Andrei Vasilevsky now
In August 2020, Vasilevsky broke the club record Nikolai Khabibulin in the number of saves in the match of the NHL playoff match established in 2003. Russian reflected 61 throw from 63 in the game against Columbus.On September 29, 2020, Ufmets won the Stanley Cup in the game "Tampa" against Dallas Starz. In addition to Andrei, in the teams of Nikita Kucher's attack, defender Mikhail Sergachev and Forward Alexander Volkov. Three Russians played in the opponent's ranks: Alexander Radulov, Anton Kudobin and Denis Guryanov.
On January 14, 2021, the next NHL tournament started. The third match of the game day was the game "Tampa-Bay Lighting" against "Chicago Blackhox". The game ended with the victory of "Lightning" with a score of 5: 1. Andrei became one of the main characters of the match. Hockey player reflected 22 throw on its gate from 23, and also remembered the spectacular sav. At the very end of the second twenty-miner, he reflected a throw in the focus of Canadian Andrew Shaw.
Achievements
- 2011 - Bronze Visor of the Junior World Cup with the Russian national team
- 2012 - Silver winner of the youth World Championship with the Russian national team
- 2013, 2014 - Bronze medalist of the World Youth Championship with the Russian national team
- 2014 - Bronze medalist of the KHL Championship with Salavat Yulaev
- 2014 - Silver winner of the championship of Russia with Salavat Yulaev
- 2014 - the best newcomer of the season in KHL
- 2014 - World Champion with Russian national team
- 2015, 2020 - Prize winner Prince Welsh with "Tampa Bay Lighting"
- 2017, 2019 - Bronze medalist of the world championship with the Russian national team
- 2017, 2019 - the best goalkeeper of the World Cup
- 2018, 2019, 2020 - Member of the Match Stars NHL
- 2019 - Vesina Trophy owner
- 2019 - getting into the first symbolic national team of all stars
- 2019 - Presidential Cup owner with Tampa Bay Lighting
- 2020 - Stanley Cup winner with Tampa Bay Lighting