Vladimir Gorbunov: biography of the great hockey player

The article is about a famous hockey playerVladimir Gorbunov. His biography will be analyzed in detail - from childhood to professional career in big hockey. On the way to glory, he overcame many defeats and victories. After reading this article, you can independently track all his achievements in the big world of hockey.

Vladimir Gorbunov. Biography

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Vladimir Gorbunov was born, whose photo you can see in the article, April 22, 1982 in Moscow. He is a professional Russian hockey player in the position of the central striker.

Vladimir Gorbunov - hockey player, who is a pupil at the school "CSKA". He played in such teams as CSKA Moscow, HC MVD and Salavat Yulaev.

The season from 2007 to 2008 was held as part of the "CSKA" team, and in 2008 (in the spring) is already returning to the HC "MVD".

Was drafted by such a hockey club as the NHL "New York Island" at number 105 in the fourth round in 2000.

In 2013 he signed a contract with the hockey club "Motorist" (Ekaterinburg).

early years

Gorbunov himself says that up to fourteen years he played for an amateur team called "Vympel", where he was invited to HC "CSKA".

For some time he played for the youth teamarmy team, which helped him to break into the main club and play 5 seasons in a row. As Vladimir Gorbunov himself says, he does not like to constantly change clubs, because of what he was very happy to stay in the hockey team "CSKA" on a long-term basis.

Vladimir recalls that he increasingly approached hockey for adults. Just at the moment when HC "CSKA" split into two teams, he had more chances to break into one of the two.

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The team that Vladimir chose and began to perform in was in the Premier League, and he spent several seasons there.

Going to Salavat Yulaev

In 2004, Vladimir moves to HC "SalavatYulayev ". In the club he stayed for a short while - somewhere about 20 days. He says that "Salavat Yulaev" simply was not his team, he somehow did not work right away, and they did not agree with the trainer Rafail Ishmatov. He also claims that he did not have any claims to Rafail.

HC "MVD"

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In 2004, Vladimir Gorbunov moved to thehockey club "MVD". Fortunately, he stayed there longer than 20 days. During the time in the club he held five championships (Tver, Podolsk and Balashikha). Some time before the game in Balashikha, he returned to CSKA for 1 season. This happened in 2007.

In the same year he was expelled from the Moscow regionclub. According to Vladimir, with the arrival of the new coach, Andrei Khomutov, he spent a month in the pre-season and for unknown reasons was no longer needed by the team. But he immediately received an offer from the hockey club "CSKA", where he spent a successful year, having won the team in the regular season third place.

Return to the hockey club "MVD"

Now Vladimir Gorbunov returns to Balashikha, where he won the title of vice-champion of the country.

  • In 2010-2011 he played for HC Dynamo Moscow.
  • In 2011-2013, he plays for HC "Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod).

Vladimir Gorbunov said that he did not understand why he was not left in the HC Dynamo. At the end of the season, the club management indicated that they count on it, but eventually refused.

If you look at the other side, then Vladimirwas in the HC "Torpedo" not himself, but with Ugarov and Zainulin, and many guys from this club Gorbunov knew well, so the adaptation for him was fairly easy, quick and painless.

In 2013, Vladimir Gorbunov moves to the hockey club "Yugra", but he does not stay there for a long time, and in the same year 2013 he joins the hockey club "Motorist" in Yekaterinburg.

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In 2014, Vladimir Gorbunov finished career as a professional hockey player, having played one season for a team from Ekaterinburg HC "Motorist".

Vladimir Gorbunov about fans in Balashikha

Vladimir tells that fans in Balashikhatreated them very well and at the end of the championship they began to shout out the abbreviation HC "MVD". At first, as Gorbunov asserts, they did not hear that, but they could cheer the whole city with their game of hockey and make it a whole in the days when the matches of the HC MVD hockey club took place.

About the draft NHL "New York Island"

In 2000, Vladimir was selected for the draft of the NHL "New York Island", but the ocean hockey player never got.

He was invited and invited to start speaking inleague of juniors. The main team did not call him. The first two years, Vladimir could not leave Russia, because he served in the army of the Russian Federation, speaking for the club "CSKA". Then, according to him, he had no desire, and he was not invited there. Of course, he regrets that he did not go across the ocean, because he believes that his career could have developed quite differently.

Family athlete

It is known that Vladimir has a wife and children, nameswhich are not disclosed. However, there is information that they are in Moscow and that Vladimir's daughter is attending school in Moscow before, before 2012, was engaged in figure skating. At the moment about the family of Vladimir Gorbunov - a hockey player with a capital letter - there is no reliable information in the press.