Anatoli Tarasov

Anatoli Vladimirovich Tarasov (Russian Анатолий Владимирович Тарасов; born December 10, 1918 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, † June 23, 1995 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach, who previously played bandy and football. Tarasov was 1947-1974 coach of HK CSKA Moscow and had as part of its work in the Army Sports Club last the military rank of colonel. Tarasov was instrumental as a Soviet national team coach role in the success of the Soviet national team of 1958 until 1974. He was inducted in 1974 as the first European coach in the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame. Tarasov is the father of successful Russian figure skating coach Tatiana Tarasova.

Career

As a player

Before the Second World War Anatoli Tarasov football and bandy played for Dynamo Odessa and Moscow ZDKA. In 1946 he began the sport of ice hockey, which at the time as "Canadian Hockey" slowly followers in the Soviet Union took place in 1946 and was worthy of support. Tarasov was awarded the contract to build the sport of ice hockey in Russia and founded the Hockey Department of ZDKA Moscow on the basis of some old textbooks.

Tarasov played in the highest Soviet Hockey League, the Klass A, for WWS MWO Moscow and CSKA Moscow, where he was also player-manager from 1947 to 1950. After he finished his career.

As a coach

National

From 1950 to 1974 Tarasov was head coach of the Army Sports clubs CSKA Moscow, with whom he the Soviet Championship six times and won the European Cup 17 times. In addition, he is regarded as the founder of offspring Action "Golden Puck " where annually more than one million children in streets and residential block teams played outside of the clubs hockey. These games were the clubs for Nachwuchssichtung. Tarasov supervised the execution of the annual competition yet, when he was coach of the national team.

Internationally

Between 1958 and 1960, Tarasov was parallel to his club activity head coach of the Soviet national team. From 1963 he was assistant to legendary coach Arkady Chernyshev at the Soviet National Team. This duo led the Sbornaja to many successes in World Championships and Olympic Games. Trademark Tarassows coach work was his reputation " raboti - raboti " ( work - work ), his motto was: ". Whoever trained more than the others, also has more success than the others" His daughter, figure skating coach Tatiana Tarasova, took over his methods.

Of the internationals his training methods were described as " inhuman", the daily training sessions lasted up to seven hours. With the national team he has won eleven World Championship titles (1963-1971) and three Olympic gold medals (1964, 1968 and 1972 ). 1972 were replaced as the coaching staff of the Sbornaja Tarasov and Chernyshev.

Honors

Tarasov was recorded in 1974 as the first European coach in the ( NHL ) Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1997 it published posthumously to join the newly founded IIHF Hall of Fame.

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