Yakupov hockey player biography

Perhaps the best release of the podcast Maxim Goncharov and Alexei Potapov - their partner in the championship “Vanguard” Nail Yakupov came to visit them. The hockey player, to whom many recall the first number of the NHL draft, told what it was - to be under the powerful pressure of scouts, general managers, fans and even relatives at the age of 18. In addition, he told how Eberle is his podshimao and what Netan McKinon in life.

Of course, I remembered the championship of Omsk-Balashikha three years ago-and also Yakupov explained where he disappeared from the composition before the playoffs. You can see the full release in the “slippery ice” group in VK, and below-the most interesting thing from the conversation in text form. Although there are still many important words left in the video command.

Potapov: Nail Yakupov came to visit us. Nice comrade. It is always nice to chat with him. Yakupov: Mutual. Hello, my good. Cool, of course, the podcast is leaded by two people who won the championship with the Vanguard and did not fly to Omsk. Potapov: I don’t remember whether I told me or not: during the playoffs, I gained Ceftriaxone-an antibiotic, I pricked myself in airplanes intramuscularly, even the club doctor did not know.

The thing is that I had ulcers in my mouth in my mouth, an allergic reaction has already gone. And the doctor, who led my tonsils, went on vacation after some time-he said, we must have time to have time faster. But when I saw how they met you in Omsk, I, to be honest, regretted it. What such a number of people came to meet in Omsk. All hockey players were dented - everyone had a hard night.

And please remind, chronologically: that is, we won the cup and flew the next day? Yakupov: Immediately, at 10 am a departure. At 10 in the morning, hard. Goncharov: Do you understand the problem? Why wasn't I? Yakupov: But you had a good reason. Gochka was exchanged about two weeks later [after me]. Well, there is plus or minus. And we have lunch, it seems we won a series of matches there or took 7 points-in general, we will have a day off in any way.

I say to Gochka: “What, let's go go somewhere on the weekend? Gocha is like this: “I can, but I don’t drink” - “Why? I answer that I will win the cup - then I will drink. ” Remember this story? I also thought: “Nifiga fool! Potapov: Well, everything, tied it up! Yakupov: Imagine, he really did not drink all season, did not drink. Just in the morning I call Gochka: “Where are you?

Cool, fun ... high. " Goncharov: This is awesome. Yakupov: Fun. We don’t know where, but all. ” Then the little man called the same one to my representative and said: “We exchanged, but we will look, we will follow.” In principle, I knew that it would be so, and I was ready because I wanted to play. I thought: "If all [contracts] are cut, then I will cut." Could just sit: “Yes, nifiga, there is a contract - and goodbye!

But since we decided: "Well, [we go to a decrease,] without problems." But in the "Vityaz" they dropped the amount so much that we: “No! It takes several days, we call again: “Well, what are you ready? But not as you want. " And now the week passes, the second passes. This is in the summer, I live in Kazan calmly. Two weeks pass - and we cannot agree in any way.

Potapov: Are you nervous at that moment? Yakupov: Not at all. There was just such a moment there. They say: “Are you not afraid that you will be sent to Khabarovsk further? We: “No. How it will be - it will be, everything is no problem. ” And one morning I wake up-Dad calls, laughs: “Well? Collect things ” -“! I ask: “What, decided? OK. Everything, gathered in Khabarovsk.

And there was a covid year - these PCR, tests. They said to come earlier on July 1. And what to do there? Just everyone lived in the hotel - and the fees have not yet begun. Therefore, who skated where. And I still cut Bursit on the bump - I could not ride. It was just in Khabarovsk at the hotel for three weeks. Just figure out! Goncharov: Well, acclimatization. Aircraft legs. Yakupov: My roof has already gone - I began to measure the form at the hotel.

Well, like a corridor to walk: “Well, I’ll put on the skates-check: it hurts and doesn’t hurt.” Then the fees began - but these were Spartan conditions. Honestly, I was in shock - not from the fact that I am in Khabarovsk, I am far away, but there are awesome good guys, such hard workers, but in terms of conditions at that time there was nothing at all. Potapov: There was nothing?

Yakupov: Well, there was a uniform, but there was no underwear. And then the fees in Moscow - trained in Umka, from where Kucher and Gusev came out. And this is a children's stadium, there is not even a hall there. The boys only rode, trained, ran. The Fizukha coach was good - Denisk, he is now in Tractor. And he squeezed the maximum of those conditions: he carried something out into the street, some kind of paths, crosses.

But there is no hall. How in the summer without a hall? Goncharov: Well, yes. Yakupov: Once, you know what happened? On the first day, all the boys handed over things to the washing - the masseurs went to wash their uniform so that everything for evening training managed. They bring a package back - in the garbage bag it was all, that is, not carts, nothing. They pour out in the corridor - and those women at the hotel who washed her, they simply pulled out everything from the nets.

They washed, did not dry, threw it back into the general package and brought. The boys are there: “! Just tin.And there is such a bunch. Let’s pull everything to pull out: who is a toe, some panties. Who found something - everything is wet.

But okay, it was. All the same, it was fun and cool. Potapov: There is something to remember.