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How Mikhail Anisin returned from the Major League to Dynamo Moscow. Biography Mikhail Anisin where now

It is generally accepted that there is no way back from the Major League. This will be confirmed to you by Danila Alistratov, once a player in the youth team, the main goalkeeper of Traktor and Vityaz. Having once agreed to a contract with a VHL club, he has not appeared in the elite for six years now. Or, let’s say, Georgiy Gelashvili - until the recent past, a prominent goalkeeper who was bet on by top clubs. Now he plays for Saryarka and hardly reminds of himself. Gelashvili fell out of the cage, like dozens of other ex-Kakhaelovites who dropped to the floor below.

All this is appropriate for most players, but not for Mikhail Anisin. Having fallen to the bottom, Dynamo Moscow picks him up as if nothing had happened. Yes, in the last Bratina draw he was one of the best in the Saryarka squad, but is this enough to get a full-fledged contract in not the last KHL club? So, his ex-teammate Oleg Lomako, a younger, stable and productive forward, is content with trips to the bride. For Anisin, a big name and a scandalous past are enough to outperform those who are much more deserving of a promotion in class.

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Anisin's fall was gradual. After his first arrival at Dynamo, one of the main creators of the 2012 victory went on a tour of middling clubs, every now and then receiving fat contracts (Neftekhimik was especially generous); last season he signed a contract with Kuznya, but not After finishing the season, he moved to Karaganda. Novokuznetsk, even before it was expelled from the league, was something of an intermediate point between the KHL and the VHL. If no one needs you except Metallurg, then the next stop will be Tver or Kurgan. This happened with Anisin, but, unlike mere mortals, he was given the red carpet back.

In a good way, Anisin’s career as a hockey player should have ended four years ago, when, as a Donbass player, he crawled along the corridors of a Ufa hotel.

In a good way, Anisin’s career as a hockey player should have ended four years ago, when, as a Donbass player, he crawled along the corridors of a Ufa hotel. After the striker showed off in front of television cameras with a black eye and bruises on his face, the door to KHL clubs should have been closed for him - at least to those where they value their reputation and the atmosphere in the team. Nevertheless, Anisin received offer after offer, as if his scandalous image was working for him, and not against him. Each time they remembered not Mikhail’s brawls, but his vocal parts.

But besides that concert in Ufa, where, according to rumors, Anisin got into a fight with teammate Sergei Varlamov, there were other antics. There are legends surrounding Mikhail's short stay in Cherepovets. Allegedly, he held a traumatic pistol in his hand no less often than a hockey stick, and after one incident in the Severstal locker room, Igor Radulov, for mysterious reasons, ended up on the injured list. Against this background, last year’s kitchen gatherings with Andrei Pervyshin and Andrei Taratukhin look like flowers.

The fact that Anisin returned specifically to Dynamo could be associated with nostalgia. As part of the blue and white team, he not only won the Gagarin Cup, but was also the best sniper in the victorious playoffs. Betting on chance and blindly hoping that everything will be as before is very our way. But in reality, five years have already passed since that surge in Anisin’s career. Sergei Svetlov, discussing the forward’s prospects, says that he has matured, but, apart from the numbers in his passport, there is absolutely no evidence for this. Over the years, scandals involving Mikhail do not subside, but the statistics only fall.

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And who in Dynamo is nostalgic for the golden times! Oleg Znarok, who got along with him, no longer works at the Moscow club. Andrei Safronov, who once took the young forward from Vityaz, no longer leads the blue and white, and if the general director had retained his post, he would hardly have allowed Anisin to take a cannon shot. In the summer after the championship, the player and his agent began to twist the management’s arms, demanding a serious salary increase. Safronov was adamant, Anisin ended up in the reserves, and he was saved only by the decision of the league, which bought the rights to the controversial forward.

The person who, in fact, installed Mikhail Anisin at Dynamo was... Vyacheslav Anisin.

It would seem that Anisin burned all his bridges with Dynamo once and for all, but a change in legal entity and immediate management made his return possible. However, according to our information, both the head coach of the blue and white Vladimir Vorobyov and the new general director Sergei Fedorov were against Anisin’s second coming. So how did this transfer become possible if the two main people at the club were not interested in the player? The decision to invite Anisin was made at the very top, in the Dynamo Central Council. What was impossible to imagine during Safronov’s time risks becoming a working scheme after the “palace coup”.

The person who, in fact, installed Mikhail Anisin at Dynamo was... Vyacheslav Anisin. The striker's father, himself a former famous forward, is distinguished not only by his tough character, but also by his extensive connections. Anisin Sr. was never shy about saying everything he thought, and he thought, as a rule, that his son was being squeezed in every possible way. After Mikhail won the cup, one of the newspapers published a harsh interview with his father, where everyone got it. In addition to the accusations of bribes that Vyacheslav Anisin hurled at his son’s coaches, there was a completely ridiculous statement that in “Siberia” Anisin Jr. was allowed out for only four minutes, but in the statistics they deliberately overestimated the playing time by two or even three times.

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Vyacheslav Anisin openly said that he was ready to solve the same problem with his son’s playing time in Novosibirsk by calling Alexander Medvedev directly. Thus, the honored veteran made it clear that he was on friendly terms with the top officials of our hockey. By coincidence, the KHL formalized the purchase of the rights to Anisin, which was an unprecedented case, when Medvedev was its president. Now the striker takes advantage of his father’s connections with the generals from the Dynamo society, receiving a new contract, although he should have received a “black mark”. Speaking at every corner about bribes, the Anisin family clearly demonstrates what nepotism and living according to concepts are.

Speaking at every corner about bribes, the Anisin family clearly demonstrates what nepotism and living according to concepts are.

We can say that Dynamo, by signing players from the “over 30” category, is tripping itself up. But Nikolai Zherdev may soon join Anisin, Dmitry Kazionov and Igor Ignatushkin. This is where the truly explosive mixture lies. However, in the case of the same Ignatushkin, the blue and whites do not risk anything; Igor is a player with an ideal reputation. The possible invitation of Zherdev is a forced compromise associated with the emergency recruitment of the Moscow club. And besides, with all his problems, Nikolai is still capable of playing in the leading lines of not the last teams in the league, which he proved in Torpedo. Anisin, besides high patrons and scandalous antics, has long been worth nothing, which does not prevent him from taking the places of young students of the Dynamo school.

On Saturday evening, “Donbass”, under a disciplinary clause, terminated the contract with 25-year-old forward Mikhail Anisin, who, according to our information, the day before in a nightclub in Ufa, together with his club partner Sergei Varlamov, got into a fight with security guards. Now the future career of the best sniper of the 2012 KHL playoffs is called into question.

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On Saturday, Mikhail Anisin became the absolute format for the “Emergency” program. Almost all hockey fans in the country watched with bitterness as the best sniper of the 2012 KHL playoffs, with black eyes and fists at the ready, running after doctors in the corridor of a Ufa hospital, being in an inadequate condition.

It was a pitiful sight. It tore the souls of everyone who knows the real Anisin. A most charming person with a wide-open soul, with the golden voice of the KHL. Nevertheless, I can’t say that the Ufa footage became an absolute sensation for me. Based on the events of recent days, we were generally prepared for them.

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TWO VERSIONS

What happened to Anisin in Ufa?

Based on recent evidence, the Internet came up with this very strange version: the hockey player got into a fight with teammate Sergei Varlamov, he was taken to the hospital with a traumatic brain injury, and his opponent limited himself to a quick examination, during which the “lucky ones” from NTV ambushed him.

It is clear that this version is rather diplomatic, reducing the number of participants in the incident to a minimum and turning it into a purely intra-team showdown. I have reason to believe that everything happened much more banal: having flown at night with Donbass from Magnitogorsk to Ufa, two team hockey players went to a nightclub in the morning, where they did not find a common language with those around them. Plus, perhaps the “female factor” also intervened.

But it's not even about the fight in the club. The fact is that the whole country saw Anisin’s shame in the Ufa hospital and his fist, which stopped millimeters from the doctor’s jaw. It was after this “movie” that the forward was fired by the club under the article and instantly lost most of his two million (in dollar terms) annual salary.

In general, Mikhail’s Donetsk career developed rapidly and was unlikely to be a failure. After a high-profile exchange from Neftekhimik, he did not score a single point in six matches for Donbass, but during this period the Ukrainian club won four victories. Moreover, in his debut match in Donetsk - against Admiral - the miniature hockey player was named the best player of his team. And in the last meeting - against Magnitogorsk - he was millimeters away from becoming a hero, missing the empty net when the score was 1:0 (in the end, Donbass missed two goals in the end and lost disappointingly - 1:2). Who knows, if it weren’t for that mistake, perhaps there would be no nightclub in a few hours...

HE IS NOT SHARIKOV

But the main question is: how did the best sniper and brightest player in the KHL sink to the bottom in a year and a half? How did he turn from a radiant “Riga” tenor singing O Sole mio, excuse me, into Sharikov running around a Ufa hospital?

Knowing Anisin quite well, let me give some answers. In my opinion, Mikhail is a man out of this world, who differs from everyone else not only in height (165 cm), but also in a kind of childish openness. It is like plasticine from which you can mold any shape.

I remember how during the days of the Dynamo crisis, when the forward declared war on general director Andrei Safronov and head coach Oleg Znark, I tried to persuade him not to burn bridges, to abandon characteristics like “farmer” and “fourth-line dog.” Misha obeyed - and in the text of the interview only the relatively harmless “under-tribune Napoleons” remained. But a day later he lost his temper, fell into the “clutches” of his colleagues who were ready to do anything in the name of ratings - and completely different epithets began to fly...

Today, not only we, journalists, but also the entire Russian society are charged with negativity, with the creation of “yellow” heroes, with lowering the level of the audience. The big child Anisin is just the clearest reflection of these processes.

As a sniper, he turned out to be in demand by the press, TV, and society, not as much as the hero of restaurant karaoke and “emergency incidents.” So, not only did the most open KHL hockey player go on the Ufa night swim, but we, Russians of the 21st century, also “helped” him with this.

Russia, alas, is a country where they like to bury people and where they are rarely given a second chance. But I hope that if not this season, then next season someone will give Anisin this chance. At least the one who initiated the invitation of the problematic sniper to Donbass. The one whom the player so let down with his Ufa adventures. Andrey Nazarov.

Misha, pull yourself together! You must get out of this nightmare. Well, Nazarov will definitely wait...

Saturday. Ufa. City Hospital. Mikhail ANISIN and doctor. NTV

Mikhail ANISIN: "I'M SORRY"

On Sunday afternoon, Mikhail Anisin contacted the SE hockey department.

Excuses for whatcame out in Ufa, I don’t have it,” the sniper sighed. - Even though my teammate and I were not the initiators of the collision in the Ufa establishment. We were more defensive.

Unfortunately, then events took a very bad turn. During the medical examination in the Ufa hospital, being in a state of shock after the collision, I behaved in a completely inappropriate manner. Even taking into account all the injuries I received, including a possible concussion, I, as a professional athlete, had no right to such behavior.

In this situation, I want to offer my sincere apologies. Both to the Ufa doctor and to the head coach of “Donbass” Andrei Nazarov, who, in fact, vouched for me to the club’s management and whose trust I, alas, did not justify.

In addition, I apologize to all the fans, Donbass, as well as the leaders of the Continental Hockey League, who have always supported me, as well as any other professional hockey player. And so I let everyone down...

In the current situation, I am obliged to take a break from my performances in order to restore both my physical and emotional state. I understand what a life and professional dead end I have found myself in. Nevertheless, I will do everything possible to get out of it. Hockey remains my life's work. I hope that the Russians will not trample me.

Give me a chance!

Mikhail Anisin's childhood, youth team

Misha was born in Moscow. The boy spent his childhood in Italy, while his father, a three-time world champion, hockey player, was finishing his career there. Mikhail remembers that he was there at the concert of the famous Pavarotti.

When Anisin started training, he had a very difficult time. Despite my father’s merits, I had to achieve everything myself. The athlete’s mother calls it “twenty years of hell” that Misha had to go through. He studied at the CSKA children's school. According to him, chaos was happening there. Many parents paid for their children to play in the first lines. Because of this, Anisin always played only in the fourth line. His father never asked for him. The hockey player doesn’t know where those guys who came out to play in the first lines are now and believes that it is unlikely that they later became athletes.

The boy’s parents supported his belief that everything can be achieved fairly, the belief that it is important to work honestly. Nevertheless, there were difficult moments more than once. Thus, Mikhail recalls how he was not included in the team of his year of birth. By that time, some of the guys on the team had agents who promoted their “clients” to the national team. No one did this for Mikhail.

At times it seemed to the young man that he was banging his forehead against the wall, that no one was noticing his games, that everything was useless. The father convinced his son that he needed to continue working, not paying attention to anything. The youth team was supposed to play in Canada, and Anisin really wanted to take part in the games. They didn't take him. The youth team then lost seven out of eight matches.

The beginning of Mikhail Anisin's career in big hockey

Mikhail found himself in big hockey for the first time in the Khimik club. During the season, he took part in seven matches, but he failed to score a single goal there. Soon the young athlete returned to CSKA. His next team was Krylya Sovetov.

Just six months later, after the games played there, in the Major League he was recognized as the top scorer of the 2007/08 season. In the spring of 2008, the athlete ended up in Avangard, but realized that in this team he would be deprived of good playing practice. Anisin began playing for Sibir. Things were not going badly for the athlete while Semenov was the team coach. When Tarasenko took the coaching post instead, everything changed for Mikhail. Their views did not coincide at all, and it became not at all easy to play. Anisin was for attacking hockey, while Tarasenko preferred defensive play. They were unable to come to anything in common.

The hockey player believes that this forced him to move forward and prove his point. In 2010, the hockey player moved to Severstal. The head coach then was Dmitry Kvartalnov. He didn't trust the young player. Mikhail himself says that it is a person’s personal business, who to trust and who not, but he could not force himself to believe him. Anisin had little playing time. Often he was allowed on the ice for four minutes, sometimes for seven. In order to be released for the next game, I had to do something in those minutes.

“A coward doesn’t play hockey” - sings Mikhail Anisin

The athlete does not see anything surprising in the fact that a young player often has to prove his worth, in fact show that the young player is better than the “veteran”. However, at Severstal the hockey player became a public favorite. In 2010, fans recognized him as the best player on the team. In the fall of 2010, as a result of an exchange, Anisin ended up in Ugra.

The athlete himself says with bewilderment that he never understood the purpose for which Ugra coach Shepelev invited the hockey player to his team. He trusted Mikhail even less than the Severstal coach. There was little game practice. Already in January 2011, Anisin was recalled from this team, and he signed a contract with Vityaz, where the hockey player managed to become a leader. Coach Andrei Nazarov believed in the player and gave him the opportunity to open up during the game. He played forty-eight games for Chekhov's Vityaz and managed to score thirty-four points.

Mikhail Anisin tried to start a fight in the hospital

Mikhail Anisin today

From the beginning of 2012, the athlete began playing for Dynamo, where Oleg Znarok was the coach. He gave the athlete to get used to it, to play around, and there was a lot of opportunity to prove himself. The coach managed to make the new team player feel that he invited him for a reason, that he was really counting on him. With this Moscow team, he won the Gagarin Cup, moreover, in the playoff series, Mikhail became the best sniper, scoring fourteen goals.

According to the hockey player, the euphoria from the Cup passed quite quickly. He believes that such a feeling should be dealt with as quickly as possible, since it is a stopper, but one should always strive for more.

The hockey player was supposed to return to Vityaz at the end of 2012, but moved to Severstal. The sports rights to the player belonged to the KHL at that time; they were purchased from Dynamo. In the fall of 2013, the hockey player already played for the Ukrainian Donbass. The match took place on October 21, and on November 16, Donbass terminated the contract with Anisin.

To date, the athlete has not signed a contract with any team. The transfer window closed on January 16. It is possible that Anisin will try his luck in Europe or overseas.

Personal life of Mikhail Anisin

Mikhail has a half-sister - his father’s daughter from his first marriage. Marina Anisina is married to Nikita Dzhigurda.

It is known that on November 16, 2013, while being a Donbass player, the athlete was hospitalized. Information appeared in the media that he had a fight with another Donbass player. Anisin’s parents said in an interview that their son rushed to help his friend, who was fighting with a group of young guys. The story turned out to be scandalous. As a result, Donbass terminated the contract with Anisin. Moreover, he will have to pay a penalty to the Ukrainian team.

Mikhail is interested in singing. In 2012, he recorded his first album in the studio of Victor Drobysh. Hockey still comes first for him. Anisin loves to sing Vysotsky's songs with a guitar. While participating in the all-star game, which took place in Riga, he performed “O Sole Mio” in front of the stadium.

When Anisin started training, he had a very difficult time. Despite my father’s merits, I had to achieve everything myself. The athlete’s mother calls it “twenty years of hell” that Misha had to go through. He studied at the CSKA children's school. According to him, chaos was happening there. Many parents paid for their children to play in the first lines. Because of this, Anisin always played only in the fourth line. His father never asked for him. The hockey player does not know where the guys who came out to play in the first lines are now and believes that it is unlikely that they later became athletes.

Bukhoy Mikhail Anisin tried to start a fight in the hospital...

The beginning of Mikhail Anisin's career in big hockey

Just six months later, after the games played there, in the Major League he was recognized as the top scorer of the 2007/08 season. In the spring of 2008, the athlete ended up in Avangard, but realized that in this team he would be deprived of good playing practice. Anisin began playing for Siberia. Things were not going badly for the athlete while Semenov was the team coach. When Tarasenko took the coaching post instead, everything changed for Mikhail. Their views did not coincide at all, and it became not at all easy to play. Anisin was for attacking hockey, while Tarasenko preferred defensive play. They were unable to come to anything in common.

Mikhail Anisin today

To date, the athlete has not signed a contract with any team. The transfer window closed on January 16. It is possible that Anisin will try his luck in Europe or overseas.

Personal life of Mikhail Anisin

Mikhail has a half-sister - his father’s daughter from his first marriage. Marina Anisina is married to Nikita Dzhigurda.

One of the best forwards of the Soviet Union of the 70s, an irreplaceable member of the great “Red Machine”, incredibly technical on the ice and persistent in training, Vyacheslav Anisin became a true legend of Soviet hockey, although he was never able to take Olympic gold. However, even without him, the great master, who also raised two other famous athletes - Olympic champion, figure skater Maria Anisina and hockey player Mikhail Anisin, had enough titles and awards. He won the World and European Championships three times, the USSR Championship eight times, the USSR Cup twice, and the European Champions Cup five times. And this is not counting the numerous silver and bronze awards. He was born into a sports family. Father, Mikhail Grigorievich, played for the Air Force Russian hockey team. Mother, Lidia Vasilievna, participated in speed skating competitions. My uncle is the famous hockey player Yuri Blokhin. In addition, young Vyacheslav himself did not come to hockey right away. Until the age of ten, he went to the gymnastics section, and already during training he was seriously engaged in singing, but his love for ice sports still won. Anisin studied at the CSKA school and already in the 1969/70 season he got the opportunity to play for the team of masters, but he was given so little playing time at the legendary club that Vyacheslav Mikhailovich decided to look for other options. He didn’t go to Krylya Sovetov for money. In the Saratov Avangard, for example, he was offered twice the salary, but the goals of the Volga team were not so serious. And the young guy wanted titles, big victories, bright emotions, getting into the national team, in the end. All this soon came. The first and very significant step to glory was the victory of “Wings” in the 1973/74 USSR Championship. The famous trio Anisin - Lebedev - Bodunov did not let their opponents get away with it. “If the main role in the victories of CSKA belonged to my more titled partners, then in the trade union team it was our main link,” recalled our hero. “We then generally had a very ambitious team. Many guys were written off from other clubs, so they were "What to prove. We became champions five rounds before the end of the championship, although before the start of the championship no one took us seriously." True, after this fantastic season, there was a decline in the play of the Setun hockey players led by Anisin. Only twice did they manage to win bronze medals. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich no longer tried on the last award - he returned to CSKA under the leadership of first Konstantin Loktev, and then Viktor Tikhonov. As for the player’s international career, 1974 was the most remarkable year for him, albeit controversial. The USSR national team won confidently, but Anisin himself received perhaps the most severe injury of his career: in a game with the Swedes, Leif Holmqvist skated across our athlete’s face. Fortunately, Anisin managed to recover and continue his career. After leaving CSKA, he played for some time in St. Petersburg SKA and Moscow Spartak, and in the late 80s, like many other players, he went to seek his fortune in Europe. Surprisingly, he managed to play both for Medvescak, which was recently accepted into the KHL, and for Milan, which is yet to join our league. With the Zagreb club, Anisin won the Yugoslav championship. We also note that in the mid-90s, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich spent one season as the helmsman of Moscow Spartak. author Farid Bektemirov

Three-time world and European champion (1973, 1974, 1975). Silver medalist at the 1972 World Championships. European Junior Champion (1970). Champion of the World Winter Universiade (1972).

Eight-time USSR champion (1970, 1971, 1974, 1977 – 1981). Silver medalist of the USSR Championship in 1969, 1975, 1984. Bronze medalist at the 1973 USSR Championship. Two-time winner of the USSR Cup (1974, 1977). Finalist of the USSR Cup 1979. Top scorer of the USSR Championship of the 1973/74 season. Champion of the Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR (1970). Five-time European Cup winner (1970, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980). Champion of Yugoslavia (1989).

He played for CSKA Moscow (1970-71, 1976-1981), Krylia Sovetov (1971-1976), Spartak (1983-1985), Leningrad SKA (1981-1983), Yugoslav Medvescak (1988-1989) , Italian "Saima Milan" (1989-1990) and "Chiavennu" (1992-1993).

He played 33 matches at the World and European Championships and scored 14 goals. In the USSR championships he scored 176 goals in 509 matches.