Double Olympic champion Igor Larionov At the movie theater”Valery Kharlamov . At high speed, ”remembered the legendary striker, who would have turned 75 on January 14.
A documentary about Kharlamov is currently airing on the channel and will also be shown on a loop at 6:30 p.m. Moscow time.
– Kharlamov is a hockey player ahead of his time. He made the game spectacular. It would be incorrect to compare him to someone,” Larionov said in the film.
– Did you play in a troika with Kharlamov?
– This happened when Volodya Krutov was injured, and Tikhonov put Kharlamov in our bond. And you understand how harmonious and easy it is with him, simply and correctly, up to genius. And we win this tournament in Italy, we become champions. Valera was recognized as the tournament’s best striker. I remember he bought the Monopoly game then. The three of us sat in the room, played and drank beer. I sat there and couldn’t believe it was real.
According to the outcome of these Italian matches, Kharlamov performed brilliantly. And for me, a young man who joined the team only two months ago, it was not clear how complicated the history was between Tikhonov and the generation of players who played in the 1980 Olympics. I haven’t been there so I don’t know all the details.
We have played four matches in Scandinavia. Late in the evening we returned to Moscow, we were allowed to go home. And at 10 a.m. we had to be at CSKA for a training session, after which we left for Novogorsk. Then, enough to pretend, many did not go under the regime, to put it mildly. Almost the whole team. And the two players that Tikhonov then penciled in were Helmut Balderis and Valerka,” Larionov said.
Source : MatchTV
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