Hockey player and coach Sergei Mikhalev: biography, achievements and interesting facts

Sergey Mikhalev, biography which will be discussed below, was one of the oldest and most respected representatives of the coaching department in Russia. He has worked with bands such as the "Lada", "Severstal", "Salavat Yulaev" in various capacities leading their teams to the main awards of national championships and the Gagarin Cup. In 2015, the famous hockey player and coach Sergei Mikhalev died in a car crash. After the tragedy of veteran hockey sweater has been raised under the arches of the palace of the club "Salavat Yulaev", which he dedicated many years.

Playing career

Born Sergey Mikhalev Hornets in the village that in the Chelyabinsk region in 1947. Despite this, he did not really work out with the local hockey. He was brought up in the "Tractor", the main club of the Chelyabinsk region, but have not risen to the basic structure and the youth team after he was transferred to polulyubitelsky "Petrel", representing the local institute.

The "Stormy Petrel" hockey player had four seasons, then got the chance to return to the big hockey. The lucky lottery ticket for him was the invitation of Ufa "Salavat Yulaev", was playing in the first league championship of the Union. Here he spent his best years as a hockey player, having played seven seasons until the end of the active career.

Only in the 1974/75 season's, he had to make an emergency trip to the SKA from Kuibyshev. Army club, using its administrative resources, called for military service Mikhaleva serving in its ranks.

Mikhalev safely returned to Ufa, where he finished his career at the age of thirty years, it was common for football players and players of the time.

The young coach

After finishing an active career, Sergey Mikhalev has decided to continue to work in hockey and chose a job coach. Having successfully passed the exams in HST, he returned to Ufa, became his native home. Here he started as a trainer-breeder. For many years he spent on the sidelines in the coaching staff, "Salavat Yulaev", until the country has stirred up the restructuring.

Many hockey clubs were in dire financial straits in the late eighties, was no exception and the Ufa flagship. For head coach salary do not have enough money, and then the club has decided to bet on their own frames. The main candidate of the home-grown specialists turned coach Sergei Mikhalev, who led the club in 1987.

A native of Chelyabinsk region taxied quite successful with his first club as head coach. Three seasons of "Salavat Yulaev" took 2-3 places in the area of ​​East First League Championship of the Union. Sergey Mikhalev wanted to bring his team to the big leagues, but Ufimtsev played poorly in transient events. In 1990, the club decided to part with Sergei Mikhailovich, who was left without a job on the background of the difficult situation in the country.

In the shadow of Tsygurova

Chelyabinsk not abandon their fellow countrymen in trouble, a new place of work Sergei Mikhalev became Tolyatti "Lada", which was headed Tsygurov also brought up in the system of the Chelyabinsk "Tractor". On the banks of the Volga, the former coach of "Salavat" began working as an assistant coach, it was apparent demotion.

However, it is in the "Lada" Sergei Mikhalev tasted real victory. In the early nineties, a modest provincial club suddenly raised himself to the number of national hockey leaders.

A good selection of players and financial support of the regional administration helped "Lada" almost a decade fighting for the highest places in the MHL, and then in the Russian championship.

In tandem with Tsygurovym Sergey Mikhalev twice he won the lottery MCL, won the European Cup in 1997. Thus he earned an excellent reputation and winning mentor status, which gave him the chance to return to the big hockey as a head coach.

The return of the wheel

Your chance Sergei Mikhalev received at the end of the twentieth century, when he received an invitation to work with the Cherepovets "Severstal". Provincial club floundering at the bottom of the standings of the Russian championship, and hockey in general, the region was on the verge of life and death.

However, Sergey Mikhalev has proved from the best party. Not only did he put the game team, which consisted of not the strongest performers, but also proved himself an excellent organizer, being able to attract the attention of the club and its development.

In the first year Sergey raised his club from the fifteenth to seventh place and brought it to the playoffs. The following season the Restless "steelworkers" to which no one took seriously before, won bronze medals in the national championship.

The peak of glory, "Severstal" has become the season 2002/03 when Cherepovets team reached the finals of the national championship. However, it has become a kind of beginning of the end. Club leaders dismantled the richest groups of the country, and the next few years, "Severstal" vegetated in the bottom of the standings.

The second coming of Ufa

In the season 2004 / 05Cergey Mikhalev became head coach, "Salavat Yulaev". Return to Ufa proved triumphant. The club has had some serious resources, a good selection of players, with whom it was possible to solve any problems.

"Salavat Yulaev" in the middle of the two thousandth's, he was one of the richest and most successful clubs in Russia and constantly been one of the main favorites of the Super League. Support from Bashkortostan leadership helped "Salavat Yulaev" attract the strongest players who can solve the most ambitious goals.

In his first season, Sergei Mikhalev hardly led the club to the playoffs series, caught in the final seventh place in the regular season. However, the quarter-finals stage proved fatal to Ufa residents who were unable to go further.

The very next year, "Salavat Yulaev" soared to third place in the Super League regular drawing and went out again in the playoffs. Again in the quarterfinals Ufimtsev failed and was eliminated in the early stages.

The first league title

Ambitious leaders of the club and the republic were unhappy unsuccessful performance of the club, and the fate of Sergei Mikhalev hung in the balance. Everything was decided in the third season of an experienced coach led "Salavat Yulaev". At this time in the 2008/09 season, "Salavat Yulaev" was unstoppable, like the players set themselves the task to save the career of his coach and literally flew through the site. The club won first place in the regular drawing and won the playoff series.

The leaders of the club drunk with victory, began to put Mikhalev only championship challenges. After the first unsuccessful series of the playoffs next season, Sergei Mikhailovich was dismissed from his post as head coach.

A black bar

Season 2009/10 Sly fox began in Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo". However, followed by a series of six unsuccessful matches, in addition, Sergei Mikhalev was not satisfied with the contract conditions, all of which led to his resignation. And a half years the venerable specialist went into the shadows, to retire to his country residence Podstepki that under Togliatti. Young wife and young child for some time, completely absorbed the attention of the patriarch.

In May 2011, Sergey Mikhalev returned to active duty, once again leading the "Salavat Yulaev". However, things in Ufa went from bad to worse, the team lost, and it came down to the fact that the fans began to make a petition demanding the resignation of the veteran.

The leaders of the club succumbed to the pressure of public opinion and fired again responsible for the results.

In 2012, the management of "Spartacus" was negotiating with Sergei Mikhailovich on the head coach, but all ended in the conditions under discussion.

The final period of

Recent years, Sergey Mikhalev, whose awards are all forgotten, spent in various administrative positions in the Togliatti "Lada" and Ufa "Salavat Yulaev". He dedicated them to his best years. He maintained good health and physical shape until the last few days. Life Path coach cut short tragically.

Returning from the funeral Belousov, he got into a terrible car accident, a sad result of which was the death of Sergei Mikhailovich.