Valery Bure is a famous Russian hockey player, one of the best in post-Soviet Russia. After completing his career, he devoted his life to his family and his favorite business - winemaking.
Valery Vladimirovich Bure was born in 1974. He is three years younger than his brother Paul. The hockey player’s father is a four-time Olympic medalist and multiple USSR champion, and his grandfather is a swimming coach Valery Bure. A sports career in such a family was a foregone conclusion. Despite the heavy workload, the father devoted a lot of time to the children. The guys grew up restless, so they were tried simultaneously in several sports. Children played football well, swam, but later they preferred hockey. They were kept strict at home, the only way to direct the activity of the boys in a peaceful direction.
Sports career
Valery began his professional career at CSKA. Then, due to the low salary in the country, he followed his brother into the Western Hockey League. He played for many hockey clubs: “Montreal Canadiens”, “Calgary Flames”, “Florida Panthers”, “Dallas Stars” and others. During the hockey career, he suffered serious injuries to his legs and back, underwent surgery, because of which he could not always play. In 2004 he graduated from a professional career.
He won many awards: Olympic silver in 1998, bronze in 2002, participated in the 1994 World Cup. Has a state award - Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1998).
Family and personal life
Valery Bure got married quite early, at the age of 22. Wife - Candice Cameron. The family has three children: Natasha, Leo and Maxim Bure. After completing his sports career in 2002, Valery accepted US citizenship, where he lives permanently, unlike his famous brother, who renounced US citizenship.
Candice is an accomplished actress and producer. Now works on television. Valery loves his family very much, devotes a lot of time to children. While the boys were small, I trained daily with them on ice. The daughter followed in the footsteps of her mother, successfully tried herself as a photo model, it is possible that over time she will act in films.
Now Valery has his own small business for the production of wine. The whole family lives in Los Angeles, they have their own vineyards. The former athlete invested a lot of money and effort in a small company Bure Family Wines, which was originally just a hobby, and then turned into a very successful business. The production is small, produces luxury wines: Majesty Blend, Nuit Blanche and Duration, which are in great demand. Less than 1000 bottles are produced per year.
The company logo was a modified image of the emblem of great-grandfather Bure, who was a watchmaker under the Russian tsar (Pavel Bure revived his business). Now the logo of the wine company is as follows: a two-headed eagle, which holds a hockey stick in one of the paws.
Valery Bure was noted in the cinema. He played in the series himself:
