Belousov Valeriy Konstantinovich: biography and photos

Speaking of the legends of the national coaching department, you can recall at least a dozen names of illustrious mentors. Tarasov, Tikhonov, Kulagin, Yurzinov. This list can be continued. But for any Ural hockey fan above the rest will be the surname of Belousov Valery Konstantinovich, the famous specialist, whose name is associated with the most significant victory of Metallurg from Magnitogorsk and Tractor from Chelyabinsk.

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich: Biography

Valery Belousov (date of birth: December 17, 1948, date of death: April 16, 2015).

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich was born in Novouralsk (Sverdlovsk region). Known in the Soviet Union hockey player, right-wing forward and Russian coach.

He has an honorary title of master of sports of international class, which he received in 1976. In 1992 he was recognized as Honored Coach of Russia.

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich - coach, who in 2012 was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Chelyabinsk."

He graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Physical Culture (CHIFK) and the Higher School of Trainers (HST).

Valery Belousov - player

In the role of hockey player Belousov Valery Konstantinovich became known for his performances for Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Tractor (Chelyabinsk) and the Japanese club Odzy Eagles, in which Belousov played as a playing coach. Together with the Japanese team Valery Belousov won three times in the championship of the Land of the Rising Sun.

For HC "Tractor" (Chelyabinsk) in various years played 418 games, which scored 221 times. He wears the unofficial title "The best sniper in the history of Chelyabinsk hockey".

Valery Belousov in the USSR national team

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich several times was invited to the location of the national team of the USSR. In the main team of the country the Ural forward played a little, only 8 fights, in which he managed to celebrate with one goal. Together with teammates in 1976, he became a participant in the Canadian Cup (an analogue of the modern World Cup).

Thanks to his original sniper scent and more than two hundred goals scored, Valery Belousov is a member of the elite Vsevolod Bobrov scorers Club (a symbolic table of hockey players who scored 250 or more pucks for a career).

Valery Belousov - coach

The greatest fame and popularity of Belousov brought coaching. For many years of his career he managed to work hard in his native "Tractor", "Metallurg", as well as in the "Vanguard" from Omsk.

At the work of a mentor in each of the three teams it is worthwhile to dwell in detail.

Metallurg (Magnitogorsk)

In Magnitogorsk, which can rightly be considered the second native city for the mentor, Valery started working in 1985. Then back in the role of playing coach. Local team "Metallurg", bearing the name of the famous for the whole country of the metallurgical combine, at that time acted in the second league of the All-Union championship. "Magnitogorsk" (both fans and locals call the team and the plant that it represents) three years in a row was among the leaders, but did not succeed in earning a raise in the classroom.

However, with the arrival of Belousov, the game of the Magnitogorsk squad changed markedly, and the team fulfilled its cherished goal.

After completing his career and focusing on the work of the coach, Valery Belousov entered the Higher School of Hockey Coaches, which he successfully graduated from and returned to the Chelyabinsk "Tractor". Under his leadership, the team twice managed to win bronze medals of the national championship. It was an unprecedented success of local hockey.

In 1995, Belousov again moved to Magnitogorsk, where he took the post of assistant head coach of "Magnitogorsk" Valery Postnikov. The following year Belousov himself was confirmed as the head coach of Metallurg. During the time spent at the helm of the club, the mentor twice brought the Urals to the title of Russian champions, twice with his hockey players won the main club trophy of the Old World - the Euroleague - and once again won in the finals of the European Super Cup and the Cup of Russia.

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich: career in the "Vanguard" (Omsk)

Valery Konstantinovich Belousov in the course of his career has repeatedly returned from one team to another. A new advent in "Tractor" happened in 2003. Then Belousov became the coach-consultant of the team. Work on this post Belousov had a month. After this mentor called Omsk "Avangard", fighting for leadership in the national championship.

Under the guidance of the Ural specialist, "Omsk Hawks" confidently made their way to the play-off stage. In the quarter finals Siberians unexpectedly easily sorted out with the Moscow "Dynamo" (account in the series 3: 0). In the second, Tolyatti's Lada, at that time a powerful team led by a well-known specialist, Pyotr Ilyich Vorobyov, was equally confidently defeated.

In the final series, the opponent of Avangard, ironically, became Magnitogorsk Metallurg. After two fights, Omsk, it seemed, had no chance of conceding to their rivals 0: 2. But they managed not only to level the situation, but also in the decisive fifth duel at a party to win in a shootout and wrest thus gold medals from the hands of rivals.

Working with Jagr

The following year, a lockout was announced in the National Hockey League (NHL). Leading stars of the world hockey in search of employment rushed to Europe. This is how the legendary Czech striker Jaromir Jagr was in Omsk.

Together with the famous player "Avangard", led by Valery Konstantinovich Belousov, he won in the Cup of European champions, whose matches were hosted by St. Petersburg.

And in the national championship this year, there was a repetition of the confrontation between Omsk and Magnitogorsk. "Vanguard" again "burned" in the 0: 2 series, but in the decisive match he won on the opponent's place in Magnitogorsk.

In 2006, the wards of Valery Konstantinovich Belousov for the second time in history made their way to the final of the playoffs of the national championship, crushing the "beloved" Magnitogorsk on the way to it. But in the final series, weakened by the injuries of the leading hockey players, "Avangard" actually lost without a fight to the Kazan "Ak Bars" (0: 3).

In the spring of 2007, the "Hawks" reached the semifinals, where they lost to the eternal rivals of the last few years from the city of Magnitogorsk, who in the final in five meetings took over Ak Bars.

2007 was the last year for Valery Belousov at the helm of the team from Omsk. On New Year's Eve the head of the "Vanguard" Anatoly Bardin dismissed the coach and his staff of assistants for unsatisfactory results.

Returning to Magnitogorsk

Before the start of the 2008/2009 season Valery Belousov was appointed the head coach of Magnitogorsk Metallurg. For the second time in his career. During this period the collective of Belousov pursues a series of offensive defeats in the final matches of various tournaments.

So, "Magnitogorsk", the current owner of the European Cup, lost 3: 4 to the team from the NHL "New York Rangers" in the game for the Victoria Cup, timed to the centennial of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

Magnitogorsk managed to break into the decisive match of the first ever Champions League drawing, where they lost to CSKA Lions from Switzerland (the first match ended in a 2: 2 draw in Magnitogorsk, and the return was 0: 5 in Zurich).

In the games for the relegation of the debut of the Gagarin Cup Metallurg in the confrontation to four wins lost to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, but received the bronze of the championship.

"Tractor" (Chelyabinsk)

After failures with "Magnitogorsk" Valery Belousov, photo of whom you see in the article, changed the place of employment, becoming the head coach of "Tractor".

Together with Chelyabinsk team Valery Konstantinovich first made his way to the semifinals of the KHL in 2012, and in the next season he reached the final, where the "tractor drivers" lost to the "Dynamo" of Moscow. "Tractor" for the first time in its more than half a century of history was rewarded with the silver of the open championship of the country.

The spring of 2013 was an important milestone in the life of coach Valery Konstantinovich Belousov. He celebrated his 100th victory in flying games as a mentor. Successful work with the team from Chelyabinsk was noted by Russian hockey officials, and Valery Belousov was accepted into the coaching staff of the Russian national team.

In 2014, the coach stopped co-operating with "Tractor", which became the last team in his track record.

The death of Belousov

Belousov Valery Konstantinovich died last spring, April 16, 2015.

On the day of the funeral of Valery Belousov, April 21, 2015, in a car crash, his friend and colleague Sergei Mikhalev died , who was returning from a Belousov's funeral on a car.

Why did Valery Konstantinovich Belousov leave the life of such a young and full-fledged young man? The reason for the death of a mentor according to the official conclusion of doctors is cardiopulmonary insufficiency.

In memory of people who respect him, Valery Konstantinovich will live forever.