Ivan Tkachenko: biography striker, photos and interesting facts

The legendary captain of the hockey, "locomotive" team, Ivan Tkachenko, lived a short, but rich and noble life. Love fans and achieving athlete confirms his professionalism and anonymous charity and reverent attitude to the family - romantic nature with a broad mind. The leader on the field, in his heart he was a patron of the arts and knight. he was infinitely in love with his family, but did not forget about the other children, to provide them with considerable financial resources for treatment. This was virtually unknown to the death of Captain Yaroslavl hockey club.

Ivan Tkachenko (hockey): biography

Childhood athlete passed in the Russian Yaroslavl. He was born on the ninth November 1979. From an early age the boy learned to skate. In six years, parents send their children to the sports section. Hockey was a real vocation for a guy. Future captain in the very first training showed excellent results. Ivan repeatedly live up to his expectations of parents and sports trainers.

To a certain share of luck can be attributed the fact that the school where he studied Vanya, it was decided to boys of the same age, engaged in hockey, combined into one class with a special schedule that takes into account the training. So the boy was under the care of the first coach A. Podmetalina. When the instructor called a few guys with him in Saratov (Among them was Ivan Tkachenko), they did not hesitate to agree, although living conditions were spartan.

in a professional field Formation

Hockey player during his career has replaced many local clubs. Prior to the "Locomotive" athlete played in teams such as:

• double Moscow "Spartak".
• "Chemist" from Engels.
• Yaroslavl "Torpedo-2".
• Nizhnekamsk "Neftekhimik".

In the "Locomotive" Ivan Tkachenko began play in 2001. Within seven years, the athlete became acting captain. Played club leader for the seventeenth number. With the growth of meter eighty, and a weight of around ninety kilos, hockey player looked impressive, matching his position on the field and beyond. Despite all the achievements, the guy behaved modestly boasted wealth, ignoring expensive things and shooting in advertising.

Prizes and awards

It is safe to say that Ivan Tkachenko - hockey player from God. During his career, he deservedly achieved a great deal:

• He received a silver medal at the World Championships (2002).
• is a two-time Russian champion.
• twice with the team won the silver medal at the Russian hockey championships (2008, 2009.).
• deserved bronze medal at the 2003 Continental Cup.

In addition, speaking of the Russian national team, athletes have won championships in the Czech Republic (2002) and Sweden (2003).

Ivan Tkachenko (hockey): personal life

At the family arena Captain "Locomotive" also evolved very well. Even as a child, he met his future wife, Marina, who was his three years older and was the sister of his best friend. At sixteen athlete I decided to confess her feelings and was reciprocity.

Young people have not officially registered marriage, lived in the civilian bases in a rented apartment. This did not prevent them to give birth to two beautiful daughters: Alexandra (2005 p.) And Barbara (2008 p.). Ivan Tkachenko - hockey player, whose family was more important than sport. He bestowed his wife expensive jewelry and flowers after the birth of each child. However, it is not spoiled. The couple loved to travel and entertain friends in their cottage near Kostroma. Shortly before the death of an athlete has learned that will soon become a father for the third time, but to see a newborn son, he was not to be.

Character

Not only the family loved Ivan. Yaroslavl hockey team also respected his captain. He was a true leader not only on the ice but also outside it. As the players say, Tkachenko was not only a great team, game, physical data, but also sports stubbornness, in the best sense of the word. He was ready to give everything for the sake of two hundred percent victory for his club.

Athlete repeatedly tried to lure to other clubs, but he remained faithful to the "Locomotives". Ivan - the bright representative of the generation that overcomes a lot of obstacles on the path to success. Weak-willed people could not stand and went out of the sport, but not a nugget of Yaroslavl. With all the difficulties he managed unconditionally and in a short time reached amazing results.

Tragic day

Ivan Tkachenko - hockey player, whose biography is filled with achievements in sport and the joys of family life, tragically gone from life in 2011. September seventh plane with a team of athletes on board collided with a beacon. Killing twenty-six, the oldest boy was 38 years old and younger - eighteen. Ivan at the time was thirty-one years. athlete's father remembers that he so long had not spoken to her son on the eve of his death, like a premonition trouble.

Interesting Facts

Only after the athlete's death became known that he spent on the charity almost ten million rubles. This was almost no one knew even the closest people. Athlete assisted destitute and infirm persons. The main focus of his charitable contributions was to help sick children. First, he is sent over a few thousand to many destinations, and then began to invest more purposefully, but at times large amounts. With the help of a hockey player was able to save more than fifteen children. Before its last flight, Ivan moved half a million rubles sixteen-year girl suffering from spinal cord cancer. Fate has treated unjustly Tkachenko. After all, every hockey fan knew him as a reliable player and convincing captain. And here is the ice rink, "Locomotive" the leader was extremely honorable man, when he boasted that no, on the contrary, concealed the fact from everyone.

Ivan Tkachenko - hockey player whose wife received his award, awarded posthumously, in the category "Hasten to do good", will not only remain in the memory of fans, but the children rescued thanks to the contributions of athlete.

Friends of the hockey player

A good friend and teammate Alexander Guskov characterizes Ivan as a sympathetic person who has never refused to help others. Even fans who needed the tickets, he, too, was happy to meet him. Alexander could not understand why Tkachenko never mentioned about his charity.

The work and personal life, Ivan was a soul-man, in any conversation he just radiated positive. Thoughtful and honest guy did not like talking behind their backs, all expressed in the face. Athlete always bring it started up work, if something did not work - trained, studied and still sought his. On the ice, the son of Ivan was a real man, father and husband. Bringing up two daughters, he is dreaming about her son, but did not live up to the day of his birth.

Ivan Tkachenko Leonidovich did not aspire to luxury limousines and other attributes of the road of life. He was just glad that he did. Says Alexander Guskov, on the eve of his move to CSKA Moscow, had a conversation with the leadership of the "Locomotive", where he wanted to keep playing. Contracted something nezaladilos, and fate itself has saved him from the fate of his best friend and another twenty-five guys from the team.

Epilogue

Ivan Tkachenko - hockey player, captain of Yaroslavl "Locomotive", Honored Master of Sports of Russian Federation, will always be remembered as a conscientious athlete, a real man and an exemplary family man. Despite a decent salary, he does not become conceited, remained a simple man who loved to listen to the music of the legendary group "Depeche Mode", "Yu-Tu". The athlete also loved traveling, speed, and his family.

In the hospital, when, after the death of a spouse Marina saw a newborn son, could not hold back sobs. The boy, in spite of the infancy, very much like his father. He was born with a herculean parameters (growth - fifty-two centimeters). Ivan's wife wanted to name the baby in honor of her husband, but remembered that her husband really wanted to give his son the name Nicholas. She sang his desire.

The parents of Ivan Tkachenko dream to build a hockey school, which will be able to learn and to train everyone in his honor. It is estimated that the construction of such an institution will cost not less than eighty million rubles. By the way, the school in which he studied the famous athlete as a child, already bears his name.