The biography of this athlete is like a fairy tale. Or a fantastic story. Vsevolod Bobrov showed unique results on the football field. He was admired by the audience when he went out on the ice in hockey fights.
Starting conditions
Leading in team sports is always difficult. Fans believe and expect the impossible from them. And they are making a daring path to victory, despite the most serious injuries. Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov - the famous Soviet athlete. He played football and hockey with equal success. At the same time, he demonstrated the highest technique of individual game. Some experts believe that only at that time such unique personalities were born and raised. In that chronological period when the Soviet country confidently occupied leading positions in world rankings.
Sevka, as a famous poet called him in his poem, was born on December 1, 1922 in a working-class family. Parents at that time lived in the small town of Morshansk in the Tambov region. When the boy was three years old, the family moved to the village of Sestroretsk near Leningrad. In a playful biography of the athlete, the author noted that Bobrov first started to skate, and after that he learned to walk. Peers, among whom the future master of sports grew up and raised, played football in the summer, and hockey in the same composition in winter.
Sports achivments
After seven years, Bobrov decided to receive special education at a local school of factory training. He easily mastered the profession of a locksmith and went to work in the assembly shop of an engineering plant. When the war began, the plant was evacuated to Omsk, and Bobrov was sent to a military school. In all situations and in any weather, Vsevolod did not stop playing football. In the victorious 1945 he was invited to the army club team. Already in the first matches of the national championship, Bobrov demonstrated a vivid and effective game. He did not leave the field without scoring a goal.
Bobrov was included in the Moscow Dynamo team, which traveled to the UK for games. He managed to score 6 goals out of 19 against the hosts. In his native land Vsevolod Mikhailovich successfully combined the game of football and Russian hockey. In 1953, he finally transferred to the national team of ice hockey. The following season, the Soviet team won first place at the World Cup. And in 1956 he won gold at the Olympic Games. In Olympic games, Bobrov acted as a playing coach.
