Streltsov biography briefly

Latest news biography Eduard Streltsov is a great Soviet football player of the 10ths. The rampant life and the subsequent prison term should cost him a career, but during the time spent by jail, the athlete did not lose their form, and popular popularity allowed him to overcome the resistance of the sports committee and return to large football and even to the national team. Childhood and youth Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was born in the city of Perovo near Moscow on July 21.

Parents of the future football player lived in a poor way: his father, Anatoly, worked at the factory, and his mother, Sophia, was the teacher of kindergarten. Eduard's family broke up after the Great Patriotic War. The elder Streltsov, demobilized from the army, went to another woman and settled in Kyiv. The family lost the breadwinner, and Sophia, who received disability after a heart attack and asthma, went to work at the Fraser factory to feed her son.

In the year, the boy was sent to a school where he did not show talent for study, but fell in love with history and physical education lessons. In his spare time, Edik with neighboring children played football and was on the Spartak. At the summer, Sagittarius became part of the plant’s team where his mother worked, and received the place of the central striker, which has become his role for life.

During a friendly match with the youth composition of the Moscow Torpedo, the young man impressed the coach of the famous club and soon fell into the number of players under the leadership of an experienced mentor. The football career in the year Streltsov as part of the Moscow team "Torpedo" debuted in a professional football league. In the match against the Dynamo club from Tbilisi, the young striker scored the first goal in a sports career and entrenched in the main composition of the club for the whole season.

In the Olympic season of the year, Streltsov helped the team become a gold winner of the tournament in Melbourne, but missed the final against Yugoslavia for the tactical reasons of the coach. The sports policy of that time was that only members of the national team who participated in the final match received awards. Since Streltsov was absent on the field, not one of the 11 medals issued to the national team got it.

Nikita Simonyan, who replaced the talented scorer, after the victory offered Eduard his own medal, but he refused, saying that he was planning to win many of his own trophies. The achievements of the young athlete were noted by the foreign press: only Sagittarius and Leo Yashin were nominated for the Golden Ball from the Soviet team from the France Football magazine. In those days, Streltsov was compared with another ascending star - Pele.

In years, the striker brought Torpedo to the second line of the final table of the national championship and paved the road to the USSR national team in the playoffs of the World Cup held in Poland. Unfortunately, the football player was not destined to participate in the main football competition of four years due to criminal prosecution and subsequent arrest.

The criminal case and imprisonment in the middle of the X Sagittarius attracted the interest of French and Swedish clubs, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the party, which considered the football player unreliable. At the beginning of the year, the athlete was involved in a scandal with the participation of high -ranking government members, the reason for which was the athlete’s reluctance to make a couple with the summer daughter of the future Minister of Culture of the USSR Ekaterina Furtseva.

A year after the incident of Eduard, who was resting in the country in the company of colleagues and women named Marina Lebedeva, was accused of rape and arrested. The fact of violence was established, but it was Streltsov who was not evidence of the involvement in him. After Lebedev, she completely took the statement from the police, writing in explanatory that she forgives a man.

But the insults inflicted on the officials made themselves felt, and at the court of Streltsov they forced to admit the crime in exchange for a promise to save a place in the national team at the World Cup. However, this did not happen: Eduard was sentenced to 12 years in prison. While in prison, Streltsov was severely attack and lay in the hospital for four months. Having recovered, he went to blame the forest in the Vyatka River, and then received the work of the librarian at the correctional institution of the Tula region.

The warders attracted an eminent criminal to participate in football competitions among prisoners, which made life easier in captivity and helped maintain physical shape. In the year, the authorities ahead of schedule of Streltsov from custody, and the football player returned to Moscow. Return to sports return to sports was not easy for Streltsov. The striker was not taken to professional clubs because of the criminal record, and he again began to play for the ZIL factory team in the year.

Matches with the participation of Eduard were attracted by crowds of fans, and the scorer met the expectations of fans, leading the club to victory in the amateur championship. According to the results of the vote, Eduard took the second line in the list of the best football players in the USSR, he was again invited to the team, where he entered the field over the next three years. Despite the successes, the athlete was expelled from the national team before the European Championship with the wording “because of age”.Further in the football biography of the attacker, a crisis came, he did not realize a single goal and left the professional league due to the injury of Achilles of the tendon.

Having stopped playing, Eduard Anatolyevich graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture and returned to his native club as a coach of the youth composition "Torpedo". The personal life of Sagittarius was a charming young man who loved noisy feasts and women. For the first time, Edward married in his youth in Alla Demento - they secretly married before the athlete left for the Olympics in Melbourne.

Family life did not set: the young husband spent time at the training camp or on partying with friends and fans. The pregnancy that followed the wedding exacerbated Alla’s already complex relationship with her mother -in -law, which demanded to get rid of the child from the daughter -in -law.

The couple diverged, put up. The birth of the daughter did not correct the situation, but officially the couple issued a divorce only during the athlete serving the deadline for rape. In September, the athlete arranged his personal life with the saleswoman of the Moscow Tsum by the name of Raisa in September of the year, the two stories of Eduard Streltsov’s love, a young family on her salary and lived for the first time.

Less than six months after the wedding, the son Igor was born, but the man was not settled: he still loved to drink, and an accidental meeting with his ex -wife Alla became the beginning of their new relationship, however, the novel did not end anything. Death in the last years of his life Sagittarius complained of lung pain and repeatedly entered the hospital with a diagnosis of “pneumonia”.

In the year, studies showed that a football player had malignant neoplasms. Eduard Anatolyevich was placed in the oncological hospital, but hospitalization only delayed the inevitable. In mid -July, Streltsov became worse, and he fell into a state of coma. Doctors reanimated the patient, but the attack was repeated. A monument of gray granite was erected at the striker’s grave in the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow, instead of a photo, a bas -relief was made in the form of an athlete’s head and a football ball.

After the death of the great Soviet football player, the memory of the Club Stadium, at which Streltsov played, was named him in the name, and a monument of work of Alexander Tarasenko was erected at the central entrance. Next to the stadium is the street, which bears the name of the striker. In the year, Ilya’s biographical film “Streltsov” was released on the screens, based on books about a football player written by Andrei Sukhomlinov, Vladimir Galedin and Alexander Nilin.

The main role went to actor Alexander Petrov.