Professional sports require a maximum concentration of physical and psychological forces from a person. Love Berezhnaya dedicated her life to handball, a tough and exciting game.
Starting conditions
At first, handball, like football, was considered a purely male game. This team confrontation requires physical strength, endurance and psychological stability. However, over time, views on this sport have changed. The biography of Lyuba Berezhnaya indicates that she came to play handball after several years of athletics. More precisely, she was invited by a coach named Odinokov. In 1970, he began his work in the city of Otradnoy, now in the Samara Region.
Lyubov Ivanovna Berezhnaya was born on June 24, 1955 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents prepared the girl for an independent life according to the traditions operating in those days. The child must get a good education and grow physically strong. I studied well at school. She was engaged in needlework and other types of folk art. According to its physical data, it was suitable for handball.
The game for the "Petrel"
The coach of the local handball team Vladimir Odinokov from the first steps proved himself to be an experienced and far-sighted mentor. He integrated creativity and hard rationalism into his work. In 1971, a team from the city of Otradnoye took first place in the regional championship. Lyuba Berezhnaya received the prize and the title of the best scorer of the competition. As subsequent events showed, this is her first step in the career of a professional handball player. The following year, Berezhnaya went to the All-Union Olympics for schoolchildren as part of the Russian team.
In 1973, Lyubov Berezhnaya, together with her coach, moved to Krasnoyarsk. He enters the local pedagogical institute and begins to train in the student sports society "Petrel". People who are not alien to sports know well how difficult it is to combine work on the field and classes in the student audience. Practice has shown that under the competent guidance of the famous trainer Odinokov, the most complex problems can be solved with minimal costs.
