Hockey sports game - spectacular action. The whole world follows bouts of hockey. And the game of the great Soviet team is still admired by the fans. Vladimir Yakovlevich Lutchenko also played in the team of famous athletes.
Hockey biography
Vladimir Yakovlevich Lutchenko was born on January 2, 1949 in a small urban-type village of Ramenskoye, in the Moscow Region. Vladimir's father left the family when the boy was not even seven years old. Mom worked all day at the factory and little Volodya was left to his own devices. His childhood passed on the street in the company of neighboring children, where he learned to play football and basketball quite well. When an energetic and capable boy skated, hockey became his main hobby.
In his youth, Vladimir Lutchenko, because of his high growth, looked older than his peers. This allowed him to join the local hockey club as a teenager. Passion for an interesting game became stronger, and Volodya did not miss a single broadcast of world hockey. The young man had a dream - to become a great hockey player.
Sports career
In 1964, the famous coach Anatoly Tarasov takes Lutchenko to his hockey team. Having proved himself on the good side, the future champion acts in the same team with famous athletes such as Smolin and Kharlamov. Since 1967, Vladimir Yakovlevich has been a member of the hockey team of the Soviet Union as a defender. Five years after the start of joint performances, the team of Vladimir Lutchenko wins gold at the Winter Olympics held in the Japanese city of Sapporo.
In 1975, having scored more than a hundred goals, Vladimir Yakovlevich is one of the best attacking hockey players in the country, despite the fact that he performs defensive functions in the team. In the same 1975, in a match of the tournament for the Izvestia Cup, the hockey player in Moscow held a phenomenal game, scoring four goals. Nobody succeeded in repeating this like that anymore. Then the star team took first place, leaving behind Czechoslovakia and Sweden. In 1976, at the Olympic Games in Austria, gold again goes to hockey players from the Soviet Union.
Honorable Contribution Awards
In 1970, Vladimir Yakovlevich Lutchenko was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. In the 80s, the great Soviet athlete was awarded the Orders of Honor and the Red Banner of Labor, and in 2011 - the state award "For Merit to the Fatherland". In 1981, he completed his professional career, and three years later becoming a child hockey coach, he moved to America. Since 2004, working as a scout in the ranger squad of New York.
