The article is about the famous hockey player Vladimir Gorbunov. His biography will be examined in detail - from childhood to a professional career in big hockey. On the way to fame, 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
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 is a hockey player who is a pupil at the CSKA school. He played in such teams as CSKA Moscow (Moscow), HC MVD and Salavat Yulaev.
He spent the season from 2007 to 2008 as part of the CSKA team, and in 2008 (in the spring) he was already returning to the MVD HC.
It was drafted by a hockey club such as the New York Islands NHL at number 105 in the fourth round in 2000.
In 2013, he signed a contract with the Avtomobilist hockey club (Yekaterinburg).
early years
Gorbunov himself says that until the age of fourteen he played for an amateur team called Vympel, from where he was invited to CSKA.
For some time he played for the youth team of the army, which helped him to break into the main club and play 5 consecutive seasons. As Vladimir Gorbunov himself says, he does not like to constantly change clubs, which is why he was very happy to remain in the hockey team of CSKA on a long-term basis.
Vladimir recalls that he more and more approached hockey for adults. Just at the moment when CSKA hockey club split into two teams, he had more chances to break into one of two.
The team that Vladimir chose and started playing in got into the Premier League, and he spent several seasons there.
Going to Salavat Yulaev
In 2004, Vladimir transferred to Salavat Yulaev HC. He stayed at the club for a short while - somewhere around 20 days. He says that “Salavat Yulaev” just turned out to be not his team, his case somehow didn’t work out right away, and they did not agree with the trainer Rafail Ishmatov. He also claims that he did not have any complaints against Raphael.
HC "Ministry of Internal Affairs"
In the same 2004, Vladimir Gorbunov transferred to the hockey club "Ministry of Internal Affairs". Fortunately, he stayed there longer than 20 days. During the time in the club he spent 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 club near Moscow. According to Vladimir, with the advent of a new coach, Andrei Khomutov, he spent a month in the preseason and for unknown reasons he no longer needed the team. But he immediately received an offer from the CSKA hockey club, where he spent a successful year, having won the third place with the team in the regular season.
Return to the hockey club "Ministry of Internal Affairs"
Now Vladimir Gorbunov is already returning to Balashikha, where he won the title of vice-champion of the country.
- In 2010-2011 he plays for HC Dynamo Moscow.
- In 2011-2013, he plays for Torpedo Holding Company (Nizhny Novgorod).
Vladimir Gorbunov says that he did not understand why he was not left in Dynamo HC. At the end of the season, the club management indicated that they were counting on him, but eventually refused.
If you look from the other side, then Vladimir was not in Torpedo HC himself, but with Ugarov and Zaynulin, and many of the guys from this club knew Gorbunov well, so the adaptation for him was quite easy, quick and painless.
In 2013, Vladimir Gorbunov transferred to the Ugra hockey club, but he did not stay there for long, and in the same 2013 he transferred to the Avtomobilist hockey club in Yekaterinburg.
In 2014, Vladimir Gorbunov ended his career as a professional hockey player, having played one season for the team from Yekaterinburg HC Avtomobilist.
Vladimir Gorbunov about fans in Balashikha
Vladimir says that the fans in Balashikha treated them very well and at the end of the championship they started shouting the abbreviation HC “MVD”. At first, according to Gorbunov, they didn’t hear such a thing, but they were able to cheer up the whole city with their hockey game and make it one whole on the days when the hockey club matches of the MVD hockey club were held.
About the New York Isles NHL Draft
In 2000, Vladimir was selected for the New York Islands draft NHL draft, but the hockey player never got overseas.
He was invited and offered to start playing in the junior league. He was not invited to the main team. 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 more he was not invited there. Of course, he regrets that he did not go overseas, because he believes that his career could have developed completely differently.
Athlete's Family
It is known that Vladimir has a wife and children whose names are not disclosed. However, there is information that they are in Moscow and that Vladimir’s daughter attends school in Moscow and before, until 2012, she was engaged in figure skating. At the moment, there is no reliable information in the press about the family of Vladimir Gorbunov, a hockey player with a capital letter.