Vitaly Atyushov - Russian hockey player

Russia is famous for good hockey players, which includes Atyushov Vitaliy Georgievich, he helped our team to adequately show themselves at the world championships, and also several times to win the championship on them.

School years

The future famous Russian hockey player was born July 4, 1979 in Penza. Like all children of that time, the boy at the age of six went to the first grade of the Penza secondary school.

As an additional occupation, Vitaly Atyushov's father offered hockey. The boy tried it - he did it and he really liked it. It was in 1985 that the hockey life of Atyushov began, he attended the hockey school "Diesel", and after a while became a pupil of the "Wings of the Soviets."

The little hockey player had a dream - to become as good a player as the participants of the Penza hockey club "Diesel", and if lucky, then to the level of hockey players of the Russian team to grow.

But he did not fan anyone from anyone, did not take autographs from popular hockey players and did not take pictures with them. The only general photo with the hockey star Tretyak appeared in Vitali only when he himself became famous.

Start of professional activity

After finishing school Vitaly Atyushov moved to the capital, where at the age of sixteen he began to play for the hockey team "Krylia Sovetov-2". The guy has proved well and in a year has entered into the basic structure of "Wings". But in the period from 1996 to 1998 he played for this team only eleven games, and therefore was sent home to his native club "Diesel", where for a short period of time five times he went on the ice. Then the guy again returned to Moscow in the main part of the "Wings of the Soviets."

The next hockey club, for which Vitaliy Atyushov spoke, was "Molot-Prikamye". In it, he worked for three years and showed himself as one of the best defenders in the league.

2002 also brought changes in the professional life of the athlete - he became a participant in the draft of the national hockey league, but he was chosen under the number 276 club "Ottawa Senators". For this team the hockey player has never played. In the same year, Atyushov Vitaly falls into the "Ak Bars" - the Kazan hockey club. Here he worked for a year, after which he signed a contract with Magnitogorsk Metallurg.

"Metallurgist"

This hockey club was for Vitaly Atyushov work for many years, being in the main part of this team, the hockey player achieves great professional achievements and awards. The young athlete was accepted into the main team immediately, from the first season. Together with Metallurg Atyushov won all possible awards in the Russian championship and got the Spengler Cup. Being a member of this hockey club, Vitali became famous as a good athlete, he was invited to play for the Russian national team, after which he became captain of the Metallurg.

In 2006, Vitaly Atyushov played for the Russian national team at the World Championships, then the team took the fifth place. The following year the team, in which this athlete participated, won bronze. In 2009, our team won a gold medal, not without the help and participation of Vitaly Atyushov. At that championship hockey player went on the ice nine times, was able to throw two goals and five times acted as an assistant.

After leaving Metallurg, the hockey player stopped for a few years in the team Salavat Yulaev, in 2013 he moved to the hockey club Atlant, where he worked for about a year. In "Tractor" Vitaly stayed about the same, and in 2015 signed a contract with the team "Cupid", for which he plays to this day.

About personal

As Atyushov himself says, he does not believe in signs that concern ordinary life, but when it comes to hockey, then the athlete necessarily adheres to traditional actions. He does not shave or shave before games. Vitaly Atyushov is a hockey player who is known to everyone for his beard. During the participation of the Russian hockey team in the 2011 World Championships in Slovakia, he did not take a razor with him, hoping that his thick long beard would help take his team's lead.

Athlete married in September 2002, now Vitaly is growing twelve-year-old daughter, who tries to watch all games with the participation of the pope.

When there is not enough time or the desire to go to a restaurant, Vitaly prepares himself, his signature dish is pancakes.

Parameters of the hockey player: height - 188 centimeters, weight - 89 kilograms, age - 38 years, zodiac sign - Cancer.