Zinetula Bilyaletdinov

Sinetula Chaidarowitsch Bilyaletdinov (Russian Зинетула Хайдарович Билялетдинов; born March 13, 1955 in Moscow, Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey player and current coach of Tatar origin. Since 2004 he is responsible for Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League and, since June 2011, the Russian national team.

Career

Throughout his career, the defender played for HK Dynamo Moscow. Overall, he scored 63 goals in 588 games in the Soviet league. He was appointed to the team of the Soviet national ice hockey team early on. On August 20, 1976, he was in a game against Sweden for the first time for the Sbornaja on the ice. His international career was crowned with the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Four years earlier he had won with his team the silver medal. For the national team, he scored 21 goals in 244 internationals. The Ice Hockey World Championships he was six times with his team world champion (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986). In 1978 he was inducted into the "Russian Hockey Hall of Fame". On 2 February 1988, he played his last international match.

2006, 2009 and 2010, he became the coach with Ak Bars Kazan Russian Championship and 2007 IIHF European Champions Cup. In June 2011, Bilyaletdinov was introduced as the head coach of the Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov and replaced, whose contract was not renewed after the World Cup 2011.

Private

Family

Bilyaletdinov comes from a Tatar ethnic working-class family that has its roots in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. His father Chaidar Bilyaletdinov (1928-1999) was a worker in a shoe factory. His mother Njaima Biljaletdinowa (1926-2000) was the first worker in a textile factory and then cleaning power with the well-known Moscow confectionery "Red October".

Sinetula Bilyaletdinov is with Nadezhda Viktorovna, an engineer, married.

The couple has a grown daughter named Natalia ( b. 1978 ). She is married to the former ice hockey player Stanislav Romanov and has two children with him.

Others

Sinetula Bilyaletdinov carries the military rank " colonel of the reserve ."

Awards

• Decoration of the Soviet Union (1978, 1981)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984 )
• Order "For merits to the Republic of Tatarstan " (2009)
• Medal of honor of the Russian Federation (2011)