January 21 - a day in the history of CSKA Gusev Alexander Vladimirovich On January 21, 1947 Gusev Alexander Vladimirovich was born - a Soviet hockey player, defender. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Pupil of the Youth Sports School of CSKA. Played for CSKA from 1968 to 1978. Champion of the USSR 1968, 1970-1973, 1975 and 1977 Winner of the USSR Cup 1968, 1969 and 1973 World and European champion 1973 and 1974 Olympic champion 1976 Forgotten team. Alexander Gusev The current generation of Russian hockey fans did not even see those who are now rolling on their 60th anniversaries. And they played, and how admirably they played, winning the hearts of millions of people not only within their own country, but also far beyond its borders. That was several generations of outstanding hockey masters. In the generation that performed in the 60s and 70s, a whole scattering of stars shone. Among them was defender Alexander Gusev, who played at number 2. Historical background GUSEV Alexander Vladimirovich, 1/21/1947, USSR, ZMS, defender. In 1965 - in CSKA, in 1965-1967-1968 - in the SKA MVO, in 1967-1978 - in CSKA, in 1978-1979 - in SKA (L). Champion of the USSR 1968, 1970-1973, 1975 and 1977, second prize-winner of the USSR championships 1969, 1974 and 1976. In the USSR championships - 306 matches, 64 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1968, 1969 and 1973. World and European champion 1973 and 1974, second medalist of the World Championship 1972, third medalist of the World Championship 1977. Champion of the OWG 1976. Member of the Canada Cup 1976 (5 matches). In WCH and OWG - 42 matches, 12 goals. It cannot be said that his actions were spectacular, that he broke the applause of the stands with some special feints and hockey tricks. But he played extremely effectively and usefully. For the benefit of the team. How angry the Spartak fans were when Gusev, as it seemed from the stands, easily and naturally took the puck away from the “red-and-white” attackers either cleanly with a stick, then taking it to the body, then pressing it into the side. Gusev was tall, handy and had an excellent click. Now this is not a curiosity, but then there were not enough defenders with a well-placed throw. For example, the great Palych - Ragulin - did not have such a throw, but he was extremely reliable in defense and was famous for his famous first pass, which began many attacks in both CSKA and the Union team. Gusev had his own trump cards, in addition to everything else, he was distinguished by severe rigidity in the game, and the Canadians themselves, obstinate and irreconcilable, respected him for these qualities. Alexander Gusev began to play hockey on the yard ice. And it’s even more correct to say, on snow compacted to a high density. His father, Vladimir Andreevich, was a musician, played the dombra in the famous Aleksandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Red Banner (so Gusev’s road to CSKA was, one might say, predetermined) and brought skates to his son from one of his post-war trips abroad. “They were attached to the boots with special such keys on both sides. And I remember how my father carried me in his arms from our semi-basement to the yard, and I was four years old, put me on this very compacted snow, and I ... went. And that's it, I got sick with skates. It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life. My father was a great needleworker, he made me a stick himself, glued it with wood glue, and I drove with it in the yard of our Pestsovaya street. Then my aunts took me to a skating rink somewhere in the center of Moscow so that I could skate on real ice. Meanwhile, things could have turned out quite differently for Gusev. “Once I went across half of Moscow to sign up for the CSKA section. I was then ten years old, I didn’t even tell my mother anything. And the coach Boris Ivanovich Afanasiev, he was the second goalkeeper in the CDSA after Mkrtchan, did not accept me into the section. I came home upset, what can I say. Tears in the eyes. Mother Lidia Konstantinovna noticed, worried: “What is it, Sash, what is it?” I told her: “Yes, mom, they didn’t accept me into the section.” Then it was like this. Mother went to Afanasiev: “What is it, Borya, you didn’t take my boyfriend to your section, huh?” “So what, your son was, or what?” Well, after such a dialogue, the issue was resolved quickly. Here, of course, there is one detail: the fact is that Gusev's mother worked as an accountant at the CDKA and, of course, she knew all the athletes like family. And even during the war she worked in the CDSA restaurant, so she knew everyone, and she met her future husband in this restaurant. And this is perhaps the only case in Gusev's biography when he took advantage of such a kind of patronage and began to play for 1945, although he himself was born in 1947 ... “Yes, the first team of boys,” recalls Gusev, “was 1945 year of birth. Of the most famous boys born this year, Spartak Vitka Yaroslavtsev was a great talent. But he retired early." All the same, Vysotsky wrote wonderfully: “Our dead will not leave us in trouble, our fallen ones are like sentries ...” There is a lot of hidden meaning in these words. On Sunday, January 14, Gusev visited the grave of Kharlamov at the Novokuntsevo cemetery. Valery had a birthday. And with Kharlamov, Gusev developed especially friendly relations. After all, Anatoly Tarasov sent them for an internship at Chebarkul. “Then there was such a composition in CSKA that you couldn’t break through. Anatoly Vladimirovich calls us and says: you are both young, there is no place for you in the first team yet, why should you sit here as a substitute? Go, help our team in Chebarkul for now, get some practice.” Probably, it was not very fun to go to this same "Star" for two young guys, born Muscovites. And where to go? Then, after all, it’s not like now: transfers, additional applications, departures, transitions. Tarasov recommended, so it should be so. “We arrived there, in the Urals, exactly on November 8, in the year of the 50th anniversary of Soviet power. It was reluctant to leave the house, to be honest. Our class was probably higher than that of other players. And Valerka did business there. Scored a lot of goals, a lot. And now listen: we win the last match, and Zvezda comes out in more high league. And the people at the stadium - six thousand. They picked us up on their shoulders and carried us around the city. I push them from above: "Guys, take it straight to the grocery store, what's there." And what do you think, they brought it right to the door. Here it is, universal love. And Kharlamov, oh, Valery. No one remembers how he came to us in CSKA. And I remember. I was a year older. At first, he didn't stand out. But he was very smart. And decent: never did anyone bad. And everyone loved him. The soul was a guy. In Canada, he was simply idolized, he would still be carried in his arms there, that's for sure. After those matches with Canada in 1972, he just became like a god there. In the super series-72 all Soviet hockey players were, without exaggeration, heroes, and Gusev was a prominent figure there. But before this series, before being included in the Union team, the path was not easy. Remembering his first coaches, Gusev diligently bends his fingers: “After Afanasyev, Andrey Vasilyevich Starovoitov. That's really who skated masterfully. I have learned a lot from him. He set me skating, taught me not in words, but in deeds: “You are riding the wrong way. It should be like this." And whack, whack - he will show you how to do it, only pieces of ice fly out from under the blades. Now the coach will gather the guys around him and explain something to them for a long time. And the workout is only an hour long. There is not enough time left for work. But the boys need to ride, they come to the sections for this. Any theories - it should be later. We used to be allowed to play more, to splash out energy. Starovoitov lived on Pestsovaya Street, he had a Volga-21. And he and Only Belonozhkin, Maltsev's future Dynamo partner, sometimes drove us to training, and he himself offered. Then Andrei Mikhailovich became an excellent hockey referee, a prominent figure in the International Ice Hockey Federation. He never forgot me, I always felt the best attitude from him ... Then there was Tazov Vyacheslav Leonidovich. Alexander Petrovich Cherepanov, played at one time with Loktev and Alexandrov. Valya Senyushkin, Elizarov Vladimir Nikolayevich, Volodya Brunov - he was even my platoon commander: after all, we had an army structure, - Gusev says a little admiringly. - The whole thing is that people stopped performing, but they were officers, so they were attached. Well, of course, in terms of the sports part and predisposition to coaching. Look how many people it turns out, and all are golden people. For Elizarov, for example, I played a season in Novosibirsk SKA together with Yurka Shatalov. Tarasov sent me there in 1966 for an internship, and Vladimir Nikolaevich was the head coach there. I, you see, all trained, - laughs Gusev. “But not in vain, not in vain.” During the years of his highest rise, Gusev was firmly entrenched in the glory of a tough, implacable defender. Then there was no such linguistic expansion in our hockey as it is now. But if in Canadian, then Gusev was a real tough guy. He had excellent speed, was sharp and completely devoid of a sense of fear, willingly went into a power struggle. But, being very tough, Alexander was also a gamer. He could and liked to join the attacks and with his powerful shot sent pucks into the opponent's goal more than once. “It was, it was a little. And he fought, too. How else? Hockey is a cruel game, because it also needs to win a place under the sun. And the teeth flew onto the ice, and the collarbones popped out, and the knee joints. Everything was ... Tarasov stands and commands: "Tougher, tougher." And when you overdo it, he grumbles, frowning: “Well, what are you doing?” “I just can’t believe this talk about Sasha’s toughness,” says Gusev’s wife Nina. - They tell me: “Your one made such a cripple.” "Who, Sasha?! Yes, this cannot be! “It was, it was,” Gusev repeats again. - Well, a cripple - not a cripple, but everything happened. We fought for a win both in CSKA and in the national team. There were no other tasks. Vaughn Valerka Vasiliev was not an angel either. And when you put yourself in an appropriate way, then they already respect you, and they won’t hurt you again. ” Gusev's rigidity. She helped in the matches with the Canadians to "keep the mark", Gusev was one of those who could give a warning and stand up for himself. Although, on the other hand, those generations Soviet players were not accustomed to scuffle on the site. So it was not accepted. They played a different kind of hockey - speed, combination, although, of course, hard. But waving your fists in front of the public was a rare occurrence. That is why, perhaps, the whole planet remembered the games of the USSR national team with the NHL and WHA teams, which showed: no, you can play (and how to play!) Without “dirt”. And ours could get involved in a fistfight, all the guys were not a miss. Well, what would happen then? The entire series would be in jeopardy. And so world hockey received a new acceleration, new horizons opened up. “But in general,” says Gusev, “the series was won by the one who needed it more. Yes, the Canadians would have blown up the plane on which they flew home from Moscow if they had lost. And if the plane had not been blown up, they would have been killed upon arrival. We lost to them in the last Moscow match and thus saved them from complete disgrace. The matches were tough, we played for the Soviet Union, honestly, we played from the heart. We had courage. But the Canadians acted rudely and we were merchandise be healthy. Don't open your mouth. From the outside it is not so noticeable, but on the site ... I heard that the Canadians recognized that series among the five most significant events of the 20th century. And in that century, there were the first manned flight into space, and two world wars... And here we are. It's kind of weird, too." “In general, I didn’t really like to play purely in defense,” Gusev says. - But to start an attack, to connect, to make a good pass, to throw accurately and strongly - that was mine. Valerka Vasiliev and I played in pairs, he says to me: “Goose, you let the Czech attackers drive me! I will take them, and at this time you will pick up the puck. Come on. Once accepted, the second. As soon as I look, the skates of the attackers whistle near my head, when Vasiliev receives them, and they stand on their ears. “Valer,” I say to Vasiliev, “well, with such tactics, if you don’t kill them, then me.” Our five in the national team was what we needed: Valery and I were in defense and Mikhailov - Petrov - Kharlamov - in front. Remembers Gusev and the first match at the heart of CSKA. “I don’t remember the year. Looks like 1965. But my debut came in a match with Dynamo Moscow. Tarasov says before the game: "Sasha, get ready." I'm sitting and getting ready. The first period passes, the second, the third, and I'm getting ready. Suddenly Tarasov says shortly before the end, when it was already clear that the match was won: "Young man, get out now." My heart, like a sparrow, fluttered, got excited. The first match is no joke. As for commemorative pucks.. . It was at the Izvestia Prize tournament, we played with the Swedes, and I last goal scored. Even after that game, they gave me a souvenir radio receiver. And one more - when I played for the "youth team" in tandem with Kolya Vasiliev. We played with the Canadians at Luzhniki, and I scored a goal. I remember a goal scored by Chivers in 1974 during the USSR-WHA series. The meeting was very difficult, we were losing, but equalized. Boris Pavlovich Kulagin said to me: “Well, thank you, Sasha, you earned us a hundred dollars.” The payment system was as follows: a win - $200, a draw - $100. For that series, if memory serves, everyone was paid $500. And there was no time to shop. If you need to play 10 matches in 12 days of the tour, what can you buy here? Yes, and the money was given at the very end. Well, you will run to the Jews, you will gain something. We knew their points in Montreal, and in New York, and in other cities. Everyone needs gifts. Wife, mother - especially. You don't think about yourself." This is also an exclusively Gusev trait - not to think about yourself. The great coach of the Resurrection "Chemist" N. S. Epshtein once said: "I love Sasha Gusev, his soul is pure." The doctor of the USSR national team Oleg Markovich Belakovsky, who has good relations with the famous defender, speaks just as warmly about Alexander. “I never had any problems with Sasha, with the exception of only “kerosene,” Belakovsky honestly admitted in the presence of the “hero” himself. - It was, as I remember now, in 1975, Sasha was caught on a drunken case. They arranged, as usual, a meeting - to decide what to do. This is despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing left before the world championship, and the defender is top class! And then Valerka Kharlamov gets up and says: “I think we should forgive Sasha, you can go on reconnaissance with him.” Such is the assessment. And she accurately characterizes the nature of Gusev, the origins of which are in the whole past of Rus': "I will give my life for my friends", "Die yourself, but help out a comrade." This is about Gusev. And the drunken business ... Well, there are a lot of rumors about "exploits" in this field famous athletes previous years. Not all of these rumors are fiction. And Gusev was never a good boy. But already worked out after the offense for two, up to a seventh sweat. And thus, by the way, shortened his hockey age. Sometimes the question arises: why sports stars past, Soviet years were drawn to drinking? Let's take hockey players. The season starts early in the fall and ends closer to the summer of next year. All this time - constant training camps, games, flights, international matches, the Olympics, world championships. It is very rare to be at home. And injuries, yes what serious! In such a regime, even courageous fighters - masters of the puck - experience great physical and neuro-psychological overload. “What can I say,” recalls Nina Guseva. - Sasha and I got married, but in fact we didn’t live together - all fees and games. Sometimes they were allowed to spend the night at home after the game, especially if they won. That's why I rooted for CSKA with all my heart. What about injuries? I remember that Sasha broke his arm in a match with the Czechs - an open fracture. The healing went hard, for a long time. And after that, in the very first match, he falls on this very hand. He did not make a sound, the character in this sense is iron. But think for yourself - what a pain. And when the ribs are broken? Not to mention all sorts of minor abrasions and bruises. And so from year to year. And really - how to relieve nervous tension? You can’t lead the whole team to the Bolshoi Theater in formation, but it’s unlikely that such a visit, even if organized, will be of any use. It turned out that only free time fell out, you could go somewhere to a restaurant or cafe and, as they say, revel and relax. “So during the championships, we practically did not communicate,” continues Nina Guseva. - So: met - fled. We met, kissed - and in different directions. But when Sasha moved to Leningrad, he first played for SKA, then studied at the Military Institute physical culture, then we lived together for six years and, in fact, recognized each other, rubbed ourselves in characters. It was during this period that difficulties arose. In Leningrad SKA Gusev got in 1978. And all because of what. At the 1977 world championship in Vienna, the strongest USSR national team lost in two matches to the Swedes. As a result, Kulagin was removed from the post of head coach of the national team, Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov came to the leadership of CSKA and the national team, and, without exaggeration, his era in domestic hockey began. And he selected the composition according to his vision of the game, according to his views. Therefore, quite quickly, a number of army hockey aces found themselves outside CSKA and the national team. Among them was Gusev. Obviously, in terms of class, he could still play both there and there. A couple of years at least. But Tikhonov had his own reasons ... As a result, number 2 passed to the young Vyacheslav Fetisov, and at the 1978 world championship he showed a simply brilliant game, for many years becoming the permanent leader of the defense of both the army club and the national team. Her captain. Alexander recalls one episode: “We returned in 1976 from the first draw of the Canada Cup. We had an experimental team flying there, headed by Tikhonov, and Mayorov and Cherenkov helped him. They took third place there. The flight is long and boring - ten hours. Well, we drank, of course. We sit, we market slowly. Tikhonov comes up: “You have a conscience, what are you doing here ...” And I take it and blurt out to him: “We, Viktor Vasilyevich, have more conscience than all of you put together.” Maybe Viktor Vasilievich held something against me after that, or maybe not, all this is nonsense. And only in 1978 he removed me from the team and the national team. It seems that in Gusev's nature there lives a spark of some liberty, some male obstinacy: he will move his eyebrows, frown, and no matter what you tell him, he will still do it in his own way, even if he will worry later. It is also a national trait. But Gusev does not hold a grudge against Tikhonov for this - after all, it is also a purely Russian trait of character. For him, Tarasov is forever the number one coach. But he doesn’t question Tikhonov’s highest coaching authority either: “But how, after all, he put together the best link in world hockey in the 1980s. I switched to the game of four fives. How many skeptics there were then, and now the whole world plays like that. There are no words, Tikhonov is a great coach. Gusev played in the Leningrad SKA for a short time - a year. Institute graduated, received a diploma of higher education, the rank of major. "I have two higher education, I am a coach of the highest qualification, and I can command a battalion. If they allow it, of course, ”Gusev grins prudently. Now Gusev lives with his wife and an affectionate miniature schnauzer dog named Sonya. It's funny to watch how she fawns over the tall Gusev, who was once known as a thunderstorm of attackers. But dogs - beings capable of subtly feeling and understanding human nature - can only be disposed towards a good person.
Today, April 29, the Central Army Sports Club (CSKA) celebrates its 93rd anniversary. The success of the representatives of the army club - business card Russian sports. Athletes of CSKA are reliable defenders of the sports prestige of our Fatherland. During its almost century-long history, the army club has trained more than 400 thousand athletes, who brought 1364 athletes to the treasury of the USSR and Russia Olympic awards(579 gold, 418 silver and 367 bronze medals) and more than 6,000 World and European championship awards, which is an absolute record among all sports organizations in Russia. Now CSKA cultivates 57 sports (41 Olympic, 9 non-Olympic and 7 military-applied), which are attended by more than 16 thousand athletes from 126 cities of Russia - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, from Severomorsk to Sevastopol. Under the flag of Vsevobuch! And it began glorious history army club on April 29, 1923 - on this day the first Soccer game between warriors-athletes for the championship of the capital. Then the Muscovites saw for the first time a team with a previously unknown sports emblem of the OPPV - the Experimental and Demonstration Site of Vsevobuch (universal military training). It was formed under the Central Directorate of Military Training of Workers on the basis of the pre-revolutionary "Society of Amateurs skiing» (OLLS) and was located in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. The first match, in which the army team lost to the Ruskabel team with a score of 1:3, was played by the OPPV players in dark blue T-shirts and white underpants - the army football team retained these colors until 1939, when the red and blue colors that are familiar today were adopted .The new base of the central sports organization of the Red Army, located in the center of Moscow's Sokolnichesky Park, was repaired by volunteers, the stands of the stadium were expanded, prepared treadmill 350 meters long, put in order sectors for throwing and jumping, several playgrounds. The primary direction of the work of the OPPV was sports that are valuable in military and applied terms: light and weightlifting, gymnastics, boxing, shooting and skiing. 
CDCA In February 1928, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the Central House of the Red Army (TsDKA) named after M.V. Frunze was opened, where on February 8 the OPPV with all the bases and teams joins as a department of physical culture and sports. From that moment on, all military athletes began to perform with the emblem of the CDKA. On the basis of the CDKA, combined sports teams are created. At the front From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, the athletes of the CDKA changed sports equipment on military weapon. Shock ski battalions of the army, groups of demolition workers and scouts fought on the front line and behind enemy lines. Many athletes of the CDKA switched to the military-physical training of the army reserve: they trained instructors for hand-to-hand combat, skiing, as well as reconnaissance units of the Red Army. For 18 months since the beginning of the Second World War, one army athlete Olga Ovsyannikova taught 2698 fighters and schoolchildren hand-to-hand combat, grenade throwing and skiing. 
In the spring of 1943, the CDKA again assembled football team to participate in the championship and the Cup of Moscow on football. The opening of the season took place on May 30, 1943 at the Stalinets Stadium in Cherkizovo, where the crowded stands brighter than any words announced the revival of the traditions of peaceful life in Moscow. football championship 1943 ended with a decisive meeting of eternal rivals, in which the army team defeated Dynamo with a score of 3: 1. Central House of the Soviet Army In the first post-war year, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army, and from now on the CDKA became known as the Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA). By the end of the 1940s, CDSA had become one of the largest sports centers countries. Well-known army coaches and athletes returned to the sports teams of the CDSA from the front, playing teams were gaining strength: football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, water polo. For three years in a row (in 1946, 1947 and 1948), CDSA players won the gold medals of the USSR champion. 
In 1952, the army team, along with other Soviet athletes, took part in the first post-war Olympic Games in Helsinki, the program of which included 149 competitions in 21 sports. It was a triumph for Soviet athletes who won 106 Olympic medals, including 38 gold. The first Olympic champions of the army club were Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva, Shazam Safin, who won gold in Greco-Roman wrestling, Mikhail Perelman in gymnastics, discus throwing, Anatoly Bogdanov in rifle shooting, Trofim Lomakin in weightlifting. Gymnasts Dmitry Leonkin, Mikhail Perelman and Iosif Berdiev became champions in the team championship. Moreover, the army athlete Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva is the first Olympic champion in the history of national sports. From CSK MO to CSKA A year later, in 1953, the athletes of the CDSA and the Air Force of the Moscow Military District (VVS MVO), who performed on the all-Union sports arena as separate teams, united in the Central sport Club Ministry of Defense (TsSK MO). By this time, the sports club of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, created in the post-war period, was firmly established on Leningradsky Prospekt, next to the central airport of Moscow named after M.V. Frunze on Khodynka field. The old hangars of the Khodynka airfield were rebuilt for training and playing halls, the first indoor airfield in Moscow was built swimming pool. Thus was born a new army sports base, which later became the center of all sports life Armed Forces of the USSR. 
Finally, in 1960, the Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense was renamed the Central Sports Club of the Army (CSKA) by the decision of the military department, the success of which is now enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of fans. Despite the long history of the name stretching over four decades, CSKA's birthday is celebrated on April 29, 1923. Victory loves heroes By the end of the 60s, all branches of the USSR Armed Forces were involved in training athletes for the highest achievements in sports. In two decades, saber fencers Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Viktor Sidyak, Viktor Krovopuskov, speed skater Yevgeny Grishin and swimmer Vladimir Salnikov won four Olympic gold medals. Hockey players Vladislav Tretiak, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin, Anatoly Firsov and Andrey Khomutov, figure skater Irina Rodnina and saber fencer Vladimir Nazlymov climbed the Olympic sports podium three times. It became prestigious to get into CSKA, because every athlete understood that this was a direct path to the national team, to the heights of a sports career. 
On April 29, 1983, the Alley of Sports Glory of CSKA was opened in front of the building of the CSKA officers' club. The solemn event was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the army club. Then 15 busts of army legends were installed - the heroes of the Olympics, World and European Championships. Fir trees were planted in front of each bust, which, even now, decades later, keep the memory of those days. Later, the CSKA Alley "moved" to the building of the army club, where it is now. In the bronze rank of CSKA there are 34 busts of famous army athletes, coaches and sports figures, such as Vsevolod Bobrov, Viktor Kuzkin, Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Konstantin Reva, Stanislav Zhuk, Yuri Vlasov, Irina Rodnina, Viktor Kapitonov, Vladislav Tretiak, Yuri Sedykh, Anatoly Karpov, Anatoly Tarasov, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Gomelsky, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Ragulin, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Vladimir Salnikov, Anatoly Roshchin, Yuri Vardanyan, Vladimir Kuts, Valery Kharlamov, Oleg Belakovsky, Alexander Zavyalov, Anatoly Bogdanov, Anatoly Margiev, Yuri Chesnokov, Evgeny Grishin, Arkady Vorobyov, Nina Ponomareva, Viktor Krovopuskov, Vladimir Kuzin, Gennady Volnov, Sergei Belov. Friendship through sports The priority tasks of CSKA today are the preparation of the club's athletes for successful performances at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the organization and holding III winter World Military Games 2017 at the Olympic venues in Sochi. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, representatives of the army club won 9 gold medals. And at the III Winter Military World Games, CSKA athletes will compete for medals of the highest standard. Decision on III Winter Military World Games in Russia was adopted on May 22, 2015 in Kuwait at the 70th General Assembly of the International Military Sports Council. About 4,000 athletes from 60 countries of the world will take part in the Military Games in Sochi. Sport program will consist of 7 sports: biathlon, ski race, skiing, ski orienteering, ski mountaineering, rock climbing, short track. And in each of them sportsmen-military personnel of the Central Sports Club of the Army will take part.
Today, April 29, on the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the army club, the head of CSKA, Colonel Mikhail Baryshev, congratulated all the fans of the army club and upset his rivals: “At all competitions, representatives of our club will be true to the club’s motto: CSKA will always be the first!”
Match CSKA - "Spartak", one of the most fundamental confrontations in the history of Russian football, will be held on Saturday in the 27th round of the championship of Russia.
The history of the CSKA football club began in 1911, when the Skiing Amateurs Society (OLLS) organized football section. On the basis of this football section, three teams were formed, which in the same year for the first time took part in the Moscow Championship in class "B". On August 14 (27), 1911, the first official match OLLS team with "Vega" club. The match ended with the victory of OLLS players with a score of 6:2. In 1916, the team won first place in the Kazan League (the championship of teams located in suburban areas along the Kazan railway) and advanced to class "A" of the Moscow championship, where they played until 1922.
The year of birth of the current CSKA team is considered April 29, 1923, when the army team OPPV was formed on the basis of OLLS (Experimental and Demonstration Site of Vsevobuch, and somewhat later, Experimental and Demonstration Site of Voenved). Central event sports festival dedicated to the opening of the OPPV was the official football match for the championship of the capital, when players with a new logo for Muscovites - "OPPV" ran out onto the football field of the Sokolniki stadium for the first time. This memorable date approved by order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of June 23, 1963 as the birthday of the Central Army Sports Club.
In 1928, the OPPV team was renamed the CDKA team (Central House of the Red Army), in 1951 the name was changed to the Sports Club of the Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA).
In Soviet times, the first major success of the team was the victory in the USSR championship in 1946. CDSA was the leader of domestic football until 1952, when the country's sports leadership decided to take part in Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The absolute majority of the players of the USSR national football team represented the CDSA. At the Olympics, the team did not leave the group, the CDSA club was disbanded, and Main coach Boris Arkadiev was removed from his post.
The decision to revive the team was made in 1954. In 1957, the club became known as TsSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense), and in 1960 received its current name - CSKA (Central Sports Club of the Army). In total, during the Soviet period, the team won seven championships and five Cups of the USSR, including the last draws of both trophies in 1991.
The success of CSKA in the Russian period of the club's history is associated with the name of head coach Valery Gazzaev, who led the team before the start of the 2002 championship. Since then, CSKA has won three national championships (2003, 2005 and 2006) and three national cups (2002, 2005 and 2006).
The main achievement of CSKA is the victory in the UEFA Cup of the 2004/2005 season (the first European Russian clubs in history).
Club achievements:
Champion of the USSR - 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991
Silver medalist of the USSR championship - 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990
Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship - 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965
USSR Cup winner - 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991
Finalist of the USSR Cup - 1944, 1967, 1992
Champion of Russia 2003, 2005, 2006
Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 1998, 2002, 2004
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 1999
Winner of the Cup of Russia - 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
Finalist of the Cup of Russia - 1993, 1994
Winner of the UEFA Cup 2005 (uefa cup champions ‑ 2005)
2005 UEFA Super Cup finalist (UEFA Super Cup 2005)
Winner of the Russian Football Super Cup - 2004, 2006, 2007
Winner of the First Channel Football Cup - 2007
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 2007
Player Achievements:
The best players of the season were:
1970 - Albert Shesternev
1976 - Vladimir Astapovsky
1991 - Igor Korneev
2005 Daniel Carvalho
Top scorers of the season:
1938 - Grigory Fedotov (19)
1939 - Grigory Fedotov (21)
1945 - Vsevolod Bobrov (24)
1947 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Valentin Nikolaev (14)
1957 - Vasily Buzunov (16)
1964 - Vladimir Fedotov (16)
2002 - Rolan Gusev, Dmitry Kirichenko (15)
The best goalkeepers of the season (Prize "Goalkeeper of the Year" magazine "Spark"):
1968 - Yuri Pshenichnikov
1976 - Vladimir Astapovsky
2004-2006 - Igor Akinfeev
CSKA's record holder for the number of matches played is Vladimir Fedotov (382 fights), followed by Vladimir Polikarpov (318) and Dmitry Bagrich (311). by the most scoring player is Grigory Fedotov (132 balls). Vsevolod Bobrov scored the most goals in one season (24 goals in 1945).
Club colors
In the 2007-2008 seasons, the team plays at home matches in red shirts and navy blue shorts, and as a substitute kit, a combination of gold socks and a T-shirt with navy blue shorts is mainly used.
Stadium
Football club does not yet have its own stadium. On May 19, 2007, the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new PFC CSKA stadium, which will be built in 2010, took place. On this moment CSKA holds its home matches at the Dynamo stadium.
Fans
CSKA fans are united in various organizations. In addition to the official fan club (“CSKA Sports Fan Club”), unofficial movements of army fans have also been created (CSKA Ultras, Red‑blue Warriors, Red‑blue Net, and others).
The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources
Team History
The history of CSKA began in 1911, when a football section was opened on the basis of the association of ski lovers, which became the foundation of the team. In August of the same year, the players of the team with the simple name of OLLS (according to the first letters of the progenitor society) played their first official match against the team with the more sonorous name "Vega", winning it 6:2. Until 1918, the team played in a tournament in one of the districts of Moscow, then made it to class "A" of city competitions, where they played for another four years.
In 1923, in the wake of the general creation of departmental teams, the athletes of the ski society were attached to the Red Army, which determined both the future fate of the team and its name, in fact. In 1928, the club became known as CDKA - the Sports Club of the Central House of the Red Army, in 1951 it changed its name to CDSA (the army became Soviet instead of the Red Army), in 1957 it received the name CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense) , and only in 1960 acquired its current name. By this time, however, it was no longer that modest club of one of the suburban areas.
In 1926 and 1935, the army team won the championship of Moscow, and in 1936 they became members of class "A" of the first USSR championship. Until the start of the war, the second place in the 1938 season was the highest achievement of the army team, but already in the post-war years the team became the true leader of Soviet football. For seven seasons from 1945 to 1951, the team became the national champion five times, was second twice, won the cup three times, and played in the semi-finals three times. Army football players have become legends in a few years, going down in history as a "team of lieutenants". However, who could have known that the club would have to pay a very high price for the success.
The USSR national team was not forgiven for the failure at the Helsinki Olympics, and CDSA, as a club that had become the base for the national team by that time, was disbanded as a punishment. Two years later, the team managed to revive, but now one had only to dream of the former heights. The team, which seriously updated its composition, finished sixth in the first season, then was third twice ... It could not rise above third place until 1970, when the army team beat Dynamo with a score of 4: 3 in the decisive two gold matches. The only trophy of the club after the revival up to this point was the victory in 1955 in the Cup of the country.
Then, in the camp of the army, timelessness came. One coach replaced another, one could only dream of stability. The team's highest achievement over the next ten years was fifth place in the 1972 season. The 80s became a nightmare for the team. In 1984, for the first time in its history, she flew to the first league, where she spent two years, after which she returned to the elite division - but only to immediately fly out again. In 1989, Pavel Sadyrin managed to return the team to the top division, after which the army team became victors in the last USSR championships. In the 1990 championship, the team stopped a step away from gold and a step away from the national cup final, but the next season both of these peaks were submitted to it.
In the first championships of Russia, the team did not shine - until 1998, it could not rise above fifth place. There were three finals of the Cup of Russia, but things did not go well in the national championship. Only under the leadership of Oleg Dolmatov, the army team was able to win silver in 1998 and bronze in 1999, but then there was a slight decline again. In 2000, the team became the eighth, then it was the seventh, and on the eve of the start of the 2002 season, the coach changed in CSKA.
The successes of the army at the beginning of the new century are associated with the name of Valery Gazzaev. In the first year of his stay at the new club, Gazzaev led the team to silver in the championship and victory in the national cup, but this was, as it turned out later, only a warm-up before the main starts. In 2003, the team became the champion, and in the 2004/05 season won the first in the history of the country European trophy- UEFA Cup. Twice - in the 2005 and 2006 seasons - the army team scored a golden double. Results of 2007 - third place and 1/8 finals of the cup - against the backdrop of success recent years looked like a failure. And although the next season the army team managed to improve by winning the country's cup and rising one line up, Valery Gazzaev left the team. IN next year three mentors managed to work with the army team at once: Zico, Ramos and Slutsky. The latter, at the end of the season, was able to stabilize the situation and lead the team to fifth place in the championship, simultaneously giving the country its first league championship spring in six years. CSKA's rival in the quarterfinals was the future winner of the Champions League, Inter Milan.
Having won the National Cup, the army club played for the second time in a row in the country's Super Cup with Rubin Kazan. CSKA lost with a minimum score, but this is unlikely to upset the fans of the “red-blue”. Ahead was a difficult season, for which the team prepared thoroughly. In addition to the returned Wagner Love, who has become virtually a legend of modern CSKA, the army team bought the talented Ivorian Seydou Doumbia, as well as Zoran Tosic, who belonged to Manchester United. The entire season, the army team fought with Zenit for gold, but not the most successful ending cost CSKA victory. As a result, CSKA stopped on the second line. The next season was transitional, when the championship was divided into two parts. This time there was no intrigue in the battle for first place at all, Zenit broke away from Spartak by thirteen points, and the army team lost two points to the Red-Whites.
But in the debut season according to the "autumn-spring" system, CSKA finally managed to win gold medals! The fight for the first place turned out to be serious, and after thirty rounds the Red-Blues managed to get ahead of Zenit by only two points! Moreover, CSKA managed to secure a golden double by defeating Anji Makhachkala in the Russian Cup final.
Main achievements
UEFA Cup Winner: 2004/05
Champion of the USSR - 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991
Silver medalist of the USSR Championship - 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990
Bronze medalist of the USSR championship - 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965
USSR Cup Winner - 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991
Finalist of the USSR Cup - 1944, 1967, 1992
Champion of Russia - 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012/13, 2013/14
Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 1999, 2007, 2011/12
Cup of Russia - 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
Finalist of the Cup of Russia - 1993, 1994, 2000
Winner of the Russian Football Super Cup - 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014
