Biography
Golkaper Vladimir Maslachenko in the years of his life, given to the game career, was in the shadows of the glory of the great goalkeeper Lion Yashin. After leaving the field, the footballer found himself in sports journalism and in 4 decades has become one of the most respected championship browsers and friendly matches in the USSR.Childhood and youth
The future commentator, whose voice knew the entire Soviet Union, was born on March 5, 1936 in the village of Vasilkovka Dnepropetrovsk region in the family of a veterinary doctor. In the transfer "Visiting Dmitry Gordon" in 2007, Vladimir Nikitovich called himself "one hundred percent Khokhl." After returning from the evacuation, the Maslachenko family settled in the city of Krivoy Rog.
In adolescence, Vladimir, except for the schoolchildren's football team, entered Krivoy Rog Basketball teams, volleyball, athletics and table tennis. Parents did not approve the enthusiasm of the Son Sport, believing that she prevents him from learn.
Football
In 15 years, Volodya was taken to the youth team "Builder", then in the sports biography of Maslachenko was the protection of the gate of the Krivoy Rog "Spartak" and the Dnepropetrovsk "Metallurg". In 20 years, young goalkeeper went to Moscow forever. A year later, Vladimir won the USSR Cup. This achievement of a native of Vasilkovsky repeated in 1963 and 1965 already as part of the Moscow "Spartak". In 1966, Maslachenko became the captain of the team that was the name of the Roman gladiator.For Spartak, Vladimir Nikitovich at the USSR championships spent almost 2 hundred matches. Especially successful for the football player was the period from 1960 to 1962. In the 1960s, Maslachenko with Spartak won the European Cup, in 1961 readers of the magazine "Ogonek" called Vladimir Nikitovich the best goalkeeper of the Soviet Union. In 1962, the Maslachenko team was awarded the Gold Medals of the USSR Football Championship.
At the 1962 World Championships, it was planned that Vladimir Nikitovich, and not 33-year-old Yashin, was planned to defend the Gate of the Soviet national team. However, at the match in Costa Rica, preceding the Mundala, the foot of the enemy crushed Maslachenko jaw. The nose goalkeeper from the blow moved to the ear. The most complex operation was able to reconstruct the face of the goalkeeper. But the injury was made by Vladimir Nikitovich deaf with one ear, the entire subsequent life of Maslachenko wore a hearing aid.
The Higher Education of the Vasilkovka native received at the State Institute of Physical Education only after the completion of the game career, in 1970. A year later, a former goalkeeper graduated from French courses and worked as a coordinator coordinator in the Republic of Chad.
TV
From 1973 to 1990, Maslachenko worked as a sports commentator of the main information transfer of the Soviet Union - the program "Time". From 1996 to 2010, Vladimir Nikitovich's voice was heard by the audience of the NTV channel and the satellite channels affiliated with it. In the spring of 2001, a commentator in protest against the appointment of the new NTV leadership refused to report from the Champions League, but in the autumn of the same year returned to the fulfillment of his duties.
The former goalkeeper when commenting on matches was distinguished by competence, emotionality and sense of humor. Maslachenko during reports as if again went on the field and, together with the football players, worried about the play situations, told the audience, as he would use a head position or beat off the ball flying into the target. In 2000, Vladimir Nikitovich was awarded the Russian National Award in Teffi Television.
Personal life
With the future wife, Olga, Vladimir met when he played for Metallurg. The girl studied at the institute and was the daughter of the high-ranking chief of Leonid Gubanov, who govering a rocket plant in Dnepropetrovsk. Olga's path to university lay past a hostel, where the goalkeeper lived.
Having become acquainted with the student, the football player led her to concerts and museums. Then young people broke up and even acquired new satellites of life. But when Maslachenko moved to Moscow to play for Lokomotiv, saw Olga rides in the same train.
In the capital of the USSR, Vladimir found his beloved. Olga's mother was against a daughter's union with a novice football player. But the future father-in-law saw a talented, intelligent and sincere person in him and approved the choice of heiress.
Despite the lack of a magnificent wedding, Olga and Vladimir were happy in their personal life and, according to the memories of granddaughter, the commentator of Yulia, retained the freshness of the relationship and after 50 years of marriage. Vladimir Nikitovich did not smoke, practically did not use alcohol and never under his wife and granddaughters did not use his mother words, replacing them with euphemism "Yersh Your Copper".
From overseas travel orders, Maslachenko brought the wife of extravagant outfits, because at 70 years old saw a 20-year-old girl in Olga Leonidovna, which fell in love. Commentary and fashionably dressed, which is visible on the preserved photos.
Vladimir Nikitovich was friends with his colleagues and neighbors in the country in the suburbs - Nina Emermin and Evgenia Maitorem, he read a lot, was passionate about the upbringing of granddaughters and mountain skiing, for classes who went to Austria and Bulgaria. At the turn of the XX and XXI centuries, the commentator was carried away by yachting and 4 years later, he entered the Presidium of the All-Russian Sailing Federation.
Death
The latest reportage commentator held on November 14, 2010. Despite the elderly age, a former football player felt cheerfully and shared with a sound operator with joy: acquired new skis.On November 18, Vladimir Nikitovich cut a salad in the kitchen and suddenly fell and, according to, Olga Leonidovna "twisted". Doctors emerge, who came to the challenge, stated at the ex-goalkeeper hypertensive crisis. In the hospital, Maslachenko diagnosed stroke. Then the speaker rose the temperature, he was transferred to intensive care. Despite the efforts of physicians, November 28, 2010, Vladimir Nikitovic died. The cause of the death of a man was heart failure.
After 3 days, a farewell ceremony with the legend of sports journalism was held in the television center "Ostankino". All matches of the 30th round of the Russian Championship in football began with the minutes of silence in memory of Vladimir Nikitovich. Maslachenko is buried on the Vagankovsky Cemetery of Moscow. Monument on the grave commentator decorate a football match and emblem "Spartak" - teams for which the native of Vasilkovki played in his youth and hurt all his life.
Achievements
- 1957, 1963, 1965 - Winner of the USSR Cup
- 1959, 1963, 1968 - Silver winner of the USSR Championship
- 1960 - European Cup owner
- 1961 - The best goalkeeper of the USSR according to the magazine "Ogonos"
- 1962 - Champion of the USSR
- 1980 - Order "Honor Sign"
- 1997 - the medal of the Order "For Services to Fatherland" II
- 2000 - Winner of the National Prize in Television Temple
- 2007 - Order of Friendship
- 2010 - RFU prize for propaganda football (posthumously)
Quotes
- "Pasch is good, yes the field is over!"
- "What do you think already in the evening or one goal is enough?"
- "Left leg is well turned right."
- "The judges helped us, but I don't think that this was done intentionally."
- "Fight health, dpysey! Refine and make life in it undepired! "