Alexei Kalyuzhny: sport achievements and biography

Alexei Kalyuzhny is one of the most titledhockey players in the history of independent Belarus. He spent most of his career mostly in Russian teams, was a participant in the Olympic Games and world championships.

early years

The future striker was born in the distant 1977year in Minsk. I began to study sports early. In my childhood I went to the sport school of hockey "Youth". He was one of the most promising players in his age category. Stand out against the background of his peers a small growth and a dense physique. Coaches noticed that the child has potential, and therefore gave him a little more attention. He, in turn, happily engaged and dreamed one day to go out on the ice as a professional player. In the early nineties the young man continues to perform in Belarus and acquires great experience. At one point, he understands that to achieve success in his native country is unlikely to work, and therefore decides to go to Russia. As it turns out later, Alexei Kalyuzhny made the right decision.

Adult career

At the age of seventeen he becomes a full-fledgedplayer of the Moscow "Dynamo". Due to the difficulties with the adaptation he managed to take part in only two matches. Season 1995-1996 began as part of Neftekhimik. Despite the fact that the hockey player was only eighteen years old, he showed a fairly confident game and the following year he returned to the Dynamo. From 1996 to 2000 he was a stable player of the basic staff of Muscovites. During this time he spent almost two hundred games and scored twenty-eight goals. It is worth noting that the successes of such an athlete as Alexei Kalyuzhny did not go unnoticed. The hockey player moves to Metallurg from Magnitogorsk as one of the most promising forwards.

From 2000 to 2002 he was a stable player in the basicsMagnitogorsk team. Spent over a hundred matches and scored many important goals. Despite the good statistics, the management of Metallurg decides to abandon the services of the Belarusian. Next season he starts at Severstal. He takes part in fifty fights and records on his account thirty-three points.

Championship 2003-2004 becomes no less successful. The hockey player plays almost in all matches and enters into an asset thirty-two effective actions. In the same year he was invited by his native "Youth". Alexei Kalyuzhny was supposed to help the team in the playoffs. He coped with this task on a solid five.

From 2004 to 2008 he protects the colors of the "Vanguard". This period is one of the most successful in the career of an athlete. He takes part in almost all matches and writes to his account a huge amount of points. In 2008 he returns to the Moscow "Dynamo", where he will hold two seasons. Despite a good game, he decides to switch back to "Vanguard", where again it will be excellent to perform for two years. After leaving Omsk team hockey player will play in "Locomotive" and go to the sunset career in the Minsk "Dynamo". A very busy athlete named Alexei Kalyuzhny. Photos from the games in each team occupy an important place in the memorable album of the hockey player.

In the national team of Belarus

To play for Belarus Alexey started back in 1996year. It was a youth team, with which the hockey player took part in the World Cup. A year later he again gets in the team of those who are not yet twenty years old, and again in its composition he goes to the world championship. In the same year, for the first time, the main team of the country receives a challenge and becomes a participant in an adult international championship. He played in seven games and scored three goals. After this tournament Alexei Kalyuzhny literally woke up famous for the whole world. And in 1998 he went to the Olympics, where he became a participant of all games, but the team took only seventh place.

In his career he played three times in the winterOlympic Games and fourteen times at the world championships. As for statistics for the national team, it looks like this: eighty-nine games, twenty-six goals left and thirty-six assists.

Achievements and awards

Quite a lot of awards were won by Kalyuzhny Alexei. His biography will not be complete if it does not list the awards:

• As a player of the "Vanguard", he became the owner of the European Cup.
• In 2008 he won the Spengler Cup.
• Twice won the championship of the Russian Federation.
• Champion of Belarus.
• Twice the best hockey player in Belarus.

The place of an athlete in history

Although Kalyuzhny Most of his career was spent in Russianteams, he is a true legend of the sport of his native Belarus. Few managed to achieve such successes, speaking for the national team of the country. Certainly, this person will go down in history as one of the best attackers of the post-Soviet period. He will also be forever remembered by Russian fans as a hockey player, who gave himself to sports for one hundred percent. It is equal to a lot of young athletes.