Not only one of the best coaches in Russia, but also the legendary hockey player of the USSR, the owner of a large number of titles and awards - all this is Vyacheslav Bykov. Coach biography, personal life - many want to know everything about the person who put so much effort into our team.
Biography
Vyacheslav Arkadevich Bykov was born in a small village in the Republic of Mari El on July 24, 1960. Soon the boy’s family moved to the city of Chelyabinsk and began to live in the house of Vyacheslav’s grandfather and grandmother. When little Glory was 4 years old, he had a sister, Anna. The parents of the future coach were simple workers. Arkady Ivanovich (father) was a tailor, and Galina Aleksandrovna (mother) worked in a preschool.
In childhood, the future coach Vyacheslav Bykov loved to play sports. In addition to hockey, he was seriously interested in football. After finishing 11 classes, Vyacheslav entered the Chelyabinsk Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture. But it was not the craving for this kind of activity that caused this choice. As Vyacheslav himself explained, this was the only university where there was a military department, since he did not want to quit sports for 2 years.
Despite the fact that as a football player he had great success, hockey became the meaning of life for him. He was a pupil of the best hockey school at that time, and his career began there.
Gaming career
The future coach Vyacheslav Bykov began his hockey career at the age of 15 at the Petrel club, in those days it was called Selkhozvuzovets, and in 1976 it closed. In 1979-1980, he first played in the championship of the USSR as part of the Metallurg team (Chelyabinsk), where he managed to show himself brilliantly and become the best sniper of the season. Vyacheslav scored 50 goals in 50 matches. Then, for two years, he played for the Tractor team. It was there that Viktor Tikhonov, who at that time was a CSKA coach, noticed the player’s high potential and took Vyacheslav to the capital. When the future coach Vyacheslav Bykov moved to Moscow, he transferred to the Chelyabinsk Institute for correspondence courses. Then he entered the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture and Sports, where he was able to qualify as a coach.
Eight years of his career, he played on the team of CSKA. This was the decisive moment in the formation of a young hockey player. Since 1982, the future coach Vyacheslav Bykov acted in the USSR team as a striker. His first game in the national team took place in Bratislava against the Czech team. It ended with our victory with a humiliating score for hockey 7: 4. In 1990, Vyacheslav Bykov, together with his ice colleague, decided to move to the Swiss club Friborg Gotteron, but, nevertheless, both continue to play in the CIS team. During this period, the gold of the Olympics-92 and the World Cup-93 was added to the collection of his awards. After 8 years, Vyacheslav moved to the hockey club "Lausanne", Switzerland, where after another 2 years he ended his hockey career. At this point, the legendary striker was 40 years old.
Coaching career
After the player’s career ended, Vyacheslav Bykov (coach), whose biography is described above, remained in Switzerland, accepted citizenship and began working at the Friborg Gotteron hockey club. Later, in 2004, Vyacheslav was invited to head the CSKA team, where he worked until 2009. And since 2006 he was invited to lead the Russian team. Success was not long in coming, and already in the coming season both teams were able to achieve the main heights: CSKA reached the semifinals of the playoffs in the Russian Championship, and the team won three stages of the European Championship, but lost in the final. In 2007, under the leadership of Vyacheslav Bykov, the Russian team won bronze at the World Cup, and a year later was able to win the main world title, which was 15 years old. In 2009, while remaining the head coach of the country, Vyacheslav signed a contract with the Ufa hockey club Salavat Yulaev.
Under the leadership of Bykov, the team managed to get bronze medals in the 09/10 season, and the next year they won the Gagarin Cup. In 2011, Bykov left the Ufa club. A year earlier, the Russian team under the leadership of Bukov suffered a crushing failure, losing in the quarterfinals of the Olympics in Canada with a score of 3: 7, and in 2011, our country was completely left without an award. This was the reason for the dismissal of Bykov. In 2014, Vyacheslav returned to hockey and became the SKA team coach, and in the first season the club manages to get the Gagarin Cup. In 2015, Bykov left the club, and to this day he does not engage in a coaching career. As Vyacheslav himself says, his return is unlikely.
Personal life
Vyacheslav Bykov (hockey coach) married at 22, while still in Chelyabinsk. His wife Nadezhda gave birth to two children: daughter Maria and son Andrei. The whole Bykov family lives in Switzerland to this day. Daughter Maria works as a producer, and his son follows in the footsteps of his father and defends the Swiss hockey club Friborg Gotteron, and also plays in the national team.