Team history
The history of CSKA began in 1911, when a football section was opened on the basis of a society of skiing enthusiasts, which became the foundation of the team. In August of the same year, the players of the team with the simple name OLLS (after the first letters of the progenitor society) played their first official match against the squad with the more sonorous name “Vega”, winning it 6:2. Until 1918, the team competed in a tournament in one of the districts of Moscow, then made it to class “A” of city competitions, where they played for another four years.
In 1923, athletes of the ski society, in the wake of the general creation of departmental teams, were attached to the Red Army, which determined both the further fate of the team and its name. In 1928, the club became known as CDKA - Sports Club of the Central House of the Red Army, in 1951 it changed its name to CDSA (the Red Army became Soviet instead), in 1957 it received the name CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense) , and only in 1960 it acquired its current name. By this time, however, it was no longer that modest club in one of the Moscow region.
In 1926 and 1935, the army team won the Moscow championship, and in 1936 they became participants in class “A” of the first USSR championship. Until the start of the war, the army team's highest achievement was second place in the 1938 season, but already in the post-war years the team became a real leader in Soviet football. In seven seasons from 1945 to 1951, the team became the national champion five times, was second twice, won the cup three times, and played in the semi-finals three times. Army football players became legends in just a few years, going down in history as the “team of lieutenants.” However, who could have known that the club would have to pay a very high price for success.
The USSR national team was not forgiven for its failure at the Olympics in Helsinki, and CDSA, as a club, which by that time had become the base for the national team, was disbanded as punishment. Two years later, the team was able to be revived, but now we could only dream of its previous heights. The team, which had seriously updated its roster, finished sixth in the first season, then was third twice... It did not manage to rise above third place until 1970, when the army team beat Dynamo with a score of 4:3 in the decisive two golden matches. The club's only trophy after its revival up to this point was the victory in the 1955 National Cup.
Then timelessness set in in the army camp. One coach replaced another, one could only dream of stability. The team's highest achievement over the next ten years was fifth place in the 1972 season. The 80s became a nightmare for the team. In 1984, for the first time in its history, it was relegated to the first league, where it spent two years, after which it returned to the elite division - but only to be immediately relegated again. In 1989, Pavel Sadyrin managed to return the team to the top division, after which the army team became triumphant in the last USSR championships. In the 1990 championship, the team stopped one step away from gold and one step away from the final of the national cup, but the very next season they conquered both of these peaks.
The team did not shine in the first Russian championships - until 1998, it did not manage to rise above fifth place. There were three finals of the Russian Cup, but things didn’t go well in the national championship. Only under the leadership of Oleg Dolmatov were the army team able to win silver in 1998 and bronze in 1999, but then there was a slight decline again. In 2000, the team became eighth, then it was seventh, and on the eve of the start of the 2002 season, CSKA changed its coach.
The successes of the army team at the beginning of the new century are associated with the name of Valery Gazzaev. In his first year at the new club, Gazzaev led the team to silver in the championship and victory in the national cup, but this, as it turned out later, was just a warm-up before the main competitions. In 2003, the team became the champion, and in the 2004/05 season they won the first European trophy in the country's history - the UEFA Cup. Twice - in the 2005 and 2006 seasons - the army team achieved a golden double. The results of 2007 - third place and 1/8 finals of the cup - looked like a failure against the backdrop of the successes of recent years. And although the army team managed to improve the following season, winning the national cup and moving up one place, Valery Gazzaev left the team. The following year, three mentors managed to work with the army team: Zico, Ramos and Slutsky. The latter was able to stabilize the situation at the end of the season and lead the team to fifth place in the championship, simultaneously giving the country its first league championship spring in the last six years. CSKA's opponent in the quarterfinals was the future winner of the Champions League, Inter Milan.
Having won the national Cup, the army club played in the national Super Cup for the second time in a row with Rubin Kazan. CSKA lost with a minimal score, but this hardly upset the red-blue fans. There was a difficult season ahead, for which the team prepared thoroughly. In addition to the returning Vagner Love, who actually became a legend of modern CSKA, the army team bought the talented Ivorian Seydou Doumbia, as well as Zoran Tosic, who belonged to Manchester United. The army team fought with Zenit for gold all season, but the not-so-successful ending cost CSKA the victory. As a result, CSKA settled on second line. The next season was a transitional one, when the championship was divided into two parts. This time there was no intrigue at all in the battle for first place, Zenit was thirteen points ahead of Spartak, and the army team lost two points to the red-whites.
But in the debut season under the “autumn-spring” system, CSKA finally managed to win gold medals! The fight for first place turned out to be serious, and after thirty rounds the “red-blues” managed to get ahead of “Zenith” by only two points! Moreover, CSKA managed to complete a golden double by defeating Anzhi Makhachkala in the Russian Cup final.
Main achievements
UEFA Cup winner: 2004/05
Champion of the USSR - 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991
Silver medalist of the USSR Championship - 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990.
Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship - 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965.
Winner of the USSR Cup - 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991.
USSR Cup finalist - 1944, 1967, 1992
Champion of Russia - 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012/13, 2013/14.
Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010.
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 1999, 2007, 2011/12.
Winner of the Russian Cup - 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013.
Finalist of the Russian Cup - 1993, 1994, 2000.
Winner of the Russian Football Super Cup - 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014.
The match between CSKA and Spartak, one of the most important confrontations in the history of Russian football, will take place on Saturday as part of the 27th round of the Russian Championship.
The history of the CSKA football club began in 1911, when a football section was organized in the Society of Ski Fans (OLLS). On the basis of this football section, three teams were formed, which in the same year took part in the Moscow championship in class “B” for the first time. On August 14 (27), 1911, the first official match of the OLLS team with the Vega club was played. The match ended in victory for the OLLS players with a score of 6:2. In 1916, the team won first place in the Kazan League (a championship of teams located in dacha areas along the Kazan Railway) and entered Class A of the Moscow Championship, where they played until 1922.
The year of birth of the current CSKA team is considered to be April 29, 1923, when the army team OPPV (Experimental and Demonstration Site of Vsevobuch, and somewhat later, Experimental and Demonstration Site of Voenved) was formed on the basis of OLLS. The central event of the sports festival dedicated to the opening of the OPPV was the official football match for the capital’s championship, when players with a new emblem for Muscovites, “OPPV,” ran onto the football field of the Sokolniki stadium for the first time. This memorable date was approved by order of the USSR Minister of Defense dated June 23, 1963 as the birthday of the Central Army Sports Club.
In 1928, the OPPV team was renamed the CDKA team (Central House of the Red Army), in 1951 the name was changed to the Sports Club of the Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA).
In Soviet times, the team's first major success was winning the 1946 USSR Championship. CDSA was the leader of domestic football until 1952, when the country's sports leadership decided to take part in the Summer Olympics in Helsinki. The vast majority of players on the USSR national football team represented CDSA. At the Olympics, the team did not make it out of the group, the CDSA club was disbanded, and head coach Boris Arkadyev was removed from his position.
The decision to revive the team was made in 1954. In 1957, the club became known as CSK MO (Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense), and in 1960 it received its current name - CSKA (Central Sports Club of the Army). In total, during the Soviet period, the team won seven championships and five USSR Cups, including the last editions of both trophies in 1991.
The successes of CSKA in the Russian period of the club’s history are associated with the name of head coach Valery Gazzaev, who led the team before the start of the 2002 championship. Since then, CSKA has won three national championships (2003, 2005 and 2006) and three national Cups (2002, 2005 and 2006).
The main achievement of CSKA is the victory in the UEFA Cup of the 2004/2005 season (the first European Cup of Russian clubs in history).
Club achievements:
Champion of the USSR - 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991
Silver medalist of the USSR Championship - 1938, 1945, 1949, 1990.
Bronze medalist of the USSR Championship - 1939, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965.
Winner of the USSR Cup - 1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991.
USSR Cup finalist - 1944, 1967, 1992
Champion of Russia 2003, 2005, 2006
Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 1998, 2002, 2004.
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 1999
Winner of the Russian Cup - 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008.
Finalist of the Russian Cup - 1993, 1994.
Winner of the 2005 UEFA Cup (uefa cup champions - 2005)
Finalist of the UEFA Super Cup 2005 (UEFA Super Cup 2005)
Winner of the Russian Football Super Cup - 2004, 2006, 2007
Winner of the First Channel Football Cup - 2007
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 2007
Player achievements:
The best players of the season were:
1970 - Albert Shesternev
1976 - Vladimir Astapovsky
1991 — Igor Korneev
2005 - Daniel Carvalho
Top scorers of the season:
1938 - Grigory Fedotov (19)
1939 - Grigory Fedotov (21)
1945 - Vsevolod Bobrov (24)
1947 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Valentin Nikolaev (14)
1957 - Vasily Buzunov (16)
1964 - Vladimir Fedotov (16)
2002 - Rolan Gusev, Dmitry Kirichenko (15)
The best goalkeepers of the season (Goalkeeper of the Year Award by Ogonyok magazine):
1968 - Yuri Pshenichnikov
1976 — Vladimir Astapovsky
2004—2006 — Igor Akinfeev
The CSKA record holder for the number of matches played is Vladimir Fedotov (382 matches), followed by Vladimir Polikarpov (318) and Dmitry Bagrich (311). The most productive player is Grigory Fedotov (132 goals). Vsevolod Bobrov scored the most goals in one season (1945 - 24 goals).
Club colors
In the 2007-2008 seasons, the team plays home matches in red T-shirts and dark blue shorts, and as a reserve uniform they mainly use a combination of gold socks and a T-shirt with dark blue shorts.
Stadium
The football club does not yet have its own stadium. On May 19, 2007, the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new PFC CSKA stadium, which will be built in 2010, took place. Currently, CSKA holds its home matches at the Dynamo stadium.
Fans
CSKA fans are united in various organizations. In addition to the official fan club (CSKA Sports Fans Club), unofficial movements of army fans have also been created (CSKA Ultras, Red-blue Warriors, Red-blue Net and others).
The material was prepared based on information from open sources
January 21 is a day in the history of CSKA Gusev Alexander Vladimirovich On January 21, 1947, Gusev Alexander Vladimirovich was born - Soviet hockey player, defender. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Pupil of Youth Sports School CSKA. He played for CSKA from 1968 to 1978. USSR champion 1968, 1970-1973, 1975 and 1977 USSR Cup winner 1968, 1969 and 1973 World and European champion 1973 and 1974 Olympic champion 1976 Forgotten team. Alexander Gusev The current generation of Russian hockey fans has not even seen those who are now celebrating their 60th anniversary in action. And they played, and how delightfully they played, winning the hearts of millions of people not only within their fatherland, but also far beyond its borders. That was several generations of outstanding hockey masters. In the generation that performed in the 60s and 70s, a whole scattering of stars shone. Among them was defender Alexander Gusev, who played number 2. Historical information GUSEV Alexander Vladimirovich, 21.1.1947, USSR, third-grade fighter, defender. In 1965 - in CSKA, in 1965-1967-1968 - in SKA Moscow Military District, in 1967-1978 - in CSKA, in 1978-1979 - in SKA (L). USSR champion 1968, 1970-1973, 1975 and 1977, second prize-winner of the USSR championships 1969, 1974 and 1976. In the USSR championships - 306 matches, 64 goals. Winner of the USSR Cup 1968, 1969 and 1973. World and European champion 1973 and 1974, second medalist of the 1972 World Championships, third medalist of the 1977 World Cup. Champion of the 1976 Olympic Olympics. Participant of the 1976 Canada Cup (5 matches). In the World Cup and Olympic Games - 42 matches, 12 goals. It cannot be said that his actions were spectacular, that he won the applause of the stands with some special feints and hockey tricks. But he played extremely effectively and usefully. In the best interests of the team. How angry the Spartak fans were when Gusev, as it seemed from the stands, easily and naturally took the puck from the “red and white” attackers, either cleanly - with his stick, then taking it to the body, or pressing it into the boards. Gusev was tall, handy and had an excellent click. Now this is not a novelty, but back then there were not enough defenders with a well-placed throw. For example, the great Palych - Ragulin - did not have such a throw, but he was extremely reliable in defense and was famous for his famous well-calibrated first pass, with which many attacks began both in CSKA and in the Union national team. Gusev had his trump cards, in addition to everything else, he was distinguished by his stern toughness in the game, and the Canadians themselves, obstinate and irreconcilable, respected him for these qualities. Alexander Gusev started playing hockey on the courtyard ice. And it would be more correct to say, on snow compacted to a high density. His father, Vladimir Andreevich, was a musician, played the dombra in the famous Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble of Alexandrov (so the road to CSKA was, one might say, predetermined for Gusev) and from one of his post-war trips abroad he brought skates for his son. “They were attached to the boots with special keys on both sides. And I remember how my father carried me in his arms from our semi-basement into the yard, and I was about four years old, put me on this most compacted snow, and I... drove off. And that's it, I got sick of skates. It was probably one of the happiest moments in my life. My father was a great craftsman, he made me a stick himself, glued it with wood glue, and I played with it in the courtyard of our Pestsovaya Street. Then my aunts took me to a skating rink somewhere in the center of Moscow so that I could skate on real ice.” Meanwhile, everything could have turned out completely differently for Gusev. “Once I went halfway across Moscow to sign up for the CSKA section. I was ten years old then, I didn’t even say anything to my mother. And coach Boris Ivanovich Afanasyev, he was the second goalkeeper in CDSA after Mkrtchan, did not accept me into the section. I came home upset, needless to say. Tears in my eyes. Mother Lidia Konstantinovna noticed and became concerned: “What is it, Sash, what is it?” I told her: “Well, mom, I wasn’t accepted into the section.” Then it was like this. The mother went to Afanasyev: “What is it, Borya, you didn’t take my boyfriend to your section, huh?” “So this was your son, or what?” Well, after such a dialogue the issue was resolved quickly. Here, of course, there is one detail: the fact is that Gusev’s mother worked at CDKA as an accountant and, of course, knew all the athletes like family. And during the war she worked at the CDSA restaurant, so she knew everyone, and she even met her future husband in this restaurant. And this is, perhaps, the only case in Gusev’s biography when he took advantage of such a unique patronage and began to play for 1945, although he himself was born in 1947... “Yes, the first team of boys,” recalls Gusev, “was Born in 1945. Of the most famous boys born this year was Spartak player Vitka Yaroslavtsev, he had great talent. But I left the race early.” Vysotsky wrote wonderfully: “Our dead will not leave us in trouble, our fallen are like sentries...” There is a lot of hidden meaning in these words. On Sunday, January 14, Gusev visited Kharlamov’s grave at the Novokuntsevo cemetery. It was Valery's birthday. And Gusev developed a particularly friendly relationship with Kharlamov. After all, they were the ones who were sent for an internship in Chebarkul by Anatoly Tarasov. “Then the composition in CSKA was such that you wouldn’t get through. Anatoly Vladimirovich calls us and says: you are both young, there is no place for you in the main team yet, but why should you sit here as a reserve? Go ahead, help our team in Chebarkul for now, get some practice.” Probably, it was not very fun for two young guys, born Muscovites, to go to this very “Star”. Where to go? Then it was not like now: transfers, additional applications, departures and transfers. Tarasov recommended it, so that’s how it should be. “We arrived there, in the Urals, exactly on November 8, the year of the 50th anniversary of Soviet power. I didn’t feel like leaving home, to be honest. Our class was probably higher than that of other players. And Valerka did business there. He scored a lot of goals, a lot. And listen: we win the last match, and Zvezda is promoted to a higher league. And there are about six thousand people in the stadium. They picked us up on their shoulders and carried us around the city. I explain to them from above: “Guys, take them straight to the grocery store, whatever.” And guess what, they brought it right to the door. Here it is, popular love. And Kharlamov, oh, Valerka. Nobody remembers how he came to us at CSKA. And I remember. I was a year older. At first he didn't stand out at all. But he was very smart. And decent: he never did anything bad to anyone. And everyone loved him. Soul was a guy. In Canada they simply idolized him, they would still carry him in their arms, that’s for sure. After those matches with Canada in 1972, he simply became like a god there.” In the 72 Super Series, all Soviet hockey players were, without exaggeration, heroes, and Gusev was a prominent figure there. But before this series, before being included in the Union national team, the path was not easy. Remembering his first coaches, Gusev diligently bends his fingers: “After Afanasyev - Andrei Vasilyevich Starovoitov. This is someone who skated masterfully. I learned a lot from him. He taught me how to ride, taught me not in words, but in deeds: “You’re going wrong. It has to be like this.” And whack, whack - it will show you how to do it, only the pieces of ice fly out from under the blades. Now the coach will gather the guys around him and explain something to them for a long time. And the training lasts only an hour. There is not enough time left for the lesson itself. But the boys need to ride, and that’s what they come to the sections for. All sorts of theories - that should come later. We used to be allowed to play more, to splash out our energy. Starovoitov lived on Pestsovaya Street, he had a Volga-21. And he and Only Belonozhkin, Maltsev’s future partner at Dynamo, sometimes gave us a ride to training, and he himself offered it. Then Andrei Mikhailovich became an excellent hockey referee, a prominent figure in the International Hockey Federation. He never forgot me, I always felt the best attitude from him... Then there was Vyacheslav Leonidovich Tazov. Alexander Petrovich Cherepanov, played at one time with Loktev and Alexandrov. Valya Senyushkin, Elizarov Vladimir Nikolaevich, Volodya Brunov - he was even my platoon commander: after all, we had an army structure,” Gusev says, almost admiringly. - The whole thing is that people finished performing, but they were officers, so they were given jobs. Well, of course, in terms of sports and a predisposition to coaching. Look how many people turn out, and all of them are golden people. For Elizarov, for example, I played a season in Novosibirsk SKA together with Yurka Shatalov. Tarasov sent me there in 1966 for an internship, and Vladimir Nikolaevich was the head coach there. “You see, I kept interning,” Gusev laughs. “But not in vain, not in vain.” During the years of his greatest rise, Gusev firmly established himself as a tough, implacable defender. At that time there was no such linguistic expansion in our hockey as there is now. But in Canadian terms, Gusev was a real tough guy. He had excellent speed, was sharp and completely devoid of any sense of fear, and willingly went into a power struggle. But, being very tough, Alexander was also a gamer. He could and loved to join in attacks and with his powerful throw he sent pucks into the opponent’s goal more than once. “It was, it was a little bit. And he fought, that happened too. How else? Hockey is a cruel game, in which you also have to win your place in the sun. And the teeth flew onto the ice, and the collarbones popped out, and the knee joints. Everything was... Tarasov stands and commands: “Tougher, tougher.” And when you overdo it, he mutters, frowning: “Well, what are you doing?” “I just can’t believe these conversations about Sasha’s toughness,” says Gusev’s wife Nina. - They tell me: “Your so-and-so made him crippled.” “Who, Sasha?! This can’t be true!” “It was, it was,” Gusev repeats again. - Well, a cripple - not a cripple, but anything happened. We fought for the win both in CSKA and in the national team. There were no other tasks. Valerka Vasiliev was no angel either. And when you position yourself accordingly, they will already respect you and will not offend you again.” Gusev's rigidity. She helped “keep the mark” in matches with the Canadians; Gusev was one of those who could give a warning and stand up for himself. Although, on the other hand, those generations of Soviet players were not accustomed to fighting on the court. It was not accepted that way. We played a different kind of hockey - high-speed, combinational, although, of course, hard. But waving your fists in front of the public was a rare occurrence. That’s why, perhaps, the whole planet remembers the games of the USSR national team with the NHL and WHA teams, because they showed: no, you can play (and how to play! ) without “dirt”. And our guys could get involved in a fist fight, all of them were good guys. So what would happen then? The entire series would be at risk. And so world hockey received a new acceleration, new horizons opened. “But in general,” says Gusev, “the series was won by the one who needed it most. Yes, the Canadians’ plane would have been blown up on which they were flying home from Moscow if they had lost. If the plane had not been blown up, they would have been killed upon arrival. We lost to them in the last Moscow match and thereby saved them from complete shame. The matches were tough, we played for the Soviet Union, honestly, we played from the heart. We had courage. But the Canadians acted rather rudely and gave us goods for good measure. Don't open your mouth. From the outside it’s not so noticeable, but on the set... I heard that Canadians recognized that series among the five most significant events of the 20th century. And in that century there were the first manned flight into space, and two world wars... And here we are. It’s even somehow strange.” “Actually, I didn’t really like to play purely defensively,” says Gusev. - But to start an attack, connect, make a good pass, throw accurately and strongly - that was mine. Valerka Vasilyev and I were playing in pairs, he said to me: “Goose, go ahead and chase the Czech attackers at me!” I’ll take them, and at this time you’ll pick up the puck.” Come on. Once accepted, twice. As soon as I look, the attackers’ skates are whistling near my head when Vasiliev takes them, and they stand on ears. “Valera,” I say to Vasiliev, “well, with such tactics, if you don’t kill them, then kill me.” Our five in the team was what we needed: Valerka and I are in defense and Mikhailov - Petrov - Kharlamov are in front.” Gusev also remembers his first match with CSKA. “I don’t remember the year anymore. It seems to be 1965. But my debut came in a match with Dynamo Moscow. Tarasov says before the game: “Sasha, get ready.” I'm sitting, getting ready. The first period passes, the second, the third, and I’m still getting ready. Suddenly Tarasov says shortly before the end, when it was already clear that the match was won: “Young man, come out now.” My heart fluttered like a sparrow and became excited. The first match is no joke. As for the memorable goals... It was at the Izvestia Prize tournament, we played with the Swedes, and I scored the last goal for them. Even after that game they gave me a souvenir radio. And another one - when I played for the youth team together with Kolya Vasiliev. We played against the Canadians at Luzhniki, and I scored a goal. I remember the goal scored by Chivers in 1974 during the USSR-VHA series. The meeting was very difficult, we were losing, but we equalized. Boris Pavlovich Kulagin says to me: “Well, thank you, Sasha, you earned us a hundred dollars.” The payment system was as follows: win - 200 dollars, draw - 100 dollars. For that episode, if memory serves, everyone was paid $500. And there wasn’t even time to shop. If you have to play 10 matches in 12 days of a tour, what can you buy? And they gave money at the very end. Well, if you run to the Jews, you will gain something. We knew their locations in Montreal, New York, and other cities. Everyone needs gifts. Wife, mother - especially. You don’t even think about yourself.” This is also an exclusively Gusev trait - not to think about oneself. The great coach of Voskresensk Khimik N.S. Epstein once said: “I love Sashka Gusev, his soul is pure.” Doctor of the USSR national team Oleg Markovich Belakovsky, who has a good relationship with the famous defender, speaks equally warmly about Alexander. “I never had any problems with Sasha, with the exception of kerosene,” Belakovsky honestly admitted in the presence of the “hero” himself. - It was, as I remember now, in 1975, Sasha was caught for drunkenness. As usual, we held a meeting to decide what to do. This is despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing left until the world championship, and the defender is top-class! And then Valerka Kharlamov stands up and says: “I think we need to forgive Sasha, you can go on reconnaissance missions with him.” This is the assessment. And it accurately characterizes Gusev’s nature, the origins of which are in the entire past of Rus': “I will give my life for my friends,” “Perish yourself, and save your comrade.” This is about Gusev. And the drunken thing... Well, there are a lot of rumors about the “exploits” of famous athletes of past years in this field. Not everything in these rumors is fiction. And Gusev was never a good boy. But after the offense he worked for two, until he sweated. And thus, by the way, he shortened his hockey life. Sometimes the question arises: why were the sports stars of the past, Soviet years, drawn to drinking? But let's take hockey players. The season begins early in the fall and ends closer to the summer of next year. All this time - constant training camps, games, flights, international matches, Olympics, world championships. It is very rare to be at home. And the injuries, how serious! Under this regime, even courageous fighters - puck masters - experience great physical and neuropsychological overload. “What can I say,” recalls Nina Guseva. - Sasha and I got married, but in fact we didn’t live together - all the training camps and games. Sometimes they were allowed to spend the night at home after the game, especially if they won. That’s why I rooted for CSKA with all my heart. What about injuries? I remember Sasha broke his arm in the match with the Czechs - an open fracture. The healing was difficult and long. And after that, in the very first match he falls on this very hand. He didn’t make a peep, his character in this sense is iron. But think for yourself - what a pain it is. What about when ribs are broken? Not to mention all sorts of minor abrasions and bruises. And so from year to year.” And really - how to relieve nervous tension? You can’t lead the whole team to the Bolshoi Theater in formation, and it’s unlikely that such a visit, even if organized, will be of any use. So it turned out that as soon as I had some free time, I could go somewhere to a restaurant or cafe and, as they say, have fun and relax. “So during the championships we practically did not communicate,” continues Nina Guseva. - So: we met and ran away. We saw each other, kissed - and in different directions. But when Sasha moved to Leningrad, first played for SKA, then studied at the Military Institute of Physical Culture, we lived together for six years and, in fact, got to know each other, got used to our characters. It was during this period that difficulties arose.” Gusev joined the Leningrad SKA in 1978. And all because of what. At the 1977 world championship in Vienna, the strongest USSR national team lost in two matches to the Swedes. As a result, Kulagin was removed from the post of head coach of the national team, Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov came to the leadership of CSKA and the national team, and, without exaggeration, his era in domestic hockey began. And he selected the composition according to his vision of the game, according to his views. Therefore, quite quickly a number of army hockey aces found themselves outside CSKA and the national team. Gusev was among them. Obviously, in terms of class, he could still play here and there. At least a couple of years. But Tikhonov had his own reasons... As a result, number 2 went to the young Vyacheslav Fetisov, and at the 1978 world championship he showed a simply brilliant game, for many years becoming the permanent leader of the defense of both the army club and the national team. Her captain. Alexander recalls one episode: “We were returning to 1976 from the first Canada Cup. We had an experimental team headed by Tikhonov fly there, and Mayorov and Cherenkov helped him. We took third place there. The flight is long and boring - ten hours. Well, we drank, of course. We sit and quietly bazaar. Tikhonov approaches: “You have a conscience, what did you do here...” And I take it and blurt out to him: “We, Viktor Vasilyevich, have more conscience than all of you combined.” Maybe Viktor Vasilyevich harbored something against me after that, or maybe not, it’s all nonsense. But only in 1978 did he remove me from the team and national team.” It seems that in Gusev’s nature there lives a spark of a certain freedom, a certain masculine obstinacy: he will knit his eyebrows, frown, and no matter what you tell him, he will still end up doing it his own way, even if he worries later. This is also a national trait. But Gusev does not hold a grudge against Tikhonov for this - this is also a purely Russian character trait. For him, Tarasov is forever the number one coach. But he doesn’t question Tikhonov’s highest coaching authority: “But of course, it was he who assembled the best team in world hockey in the 1980s. I switched to the four-five game. There were so many skeptics then, but now the whole world plays like that. There are no words here, Tikhonov is a great coach.” Gusev played for SKA Leningrad for a short time - a year. He graduated from the institute, received a diploma of higher education, and the rank of major. “I have two higher educations, I am a highly qualified trainer, and I can command a battalion. If they allow it, of course,” Gusev grins prudently. Now Gusev lives with his wife and an affectionate miniature schnauzer dog named Sonya. It's funny to watch how she fawns over the tall Gusev, who was once known as the terror of attackers. But dogs - creatures capable of subtly feeling and understanding human nature - can only be disposed towards a good person
This happened already in the post-Soviet era, when army football historians decided to consider the OLLS (Society of Skiing Fans) team as the rightful predecessor of their favorites. The fact is that on April 29, 1923, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the Central Sports Organization of the Red Army was created in Moscow on the basis of OLLS, which was called the Experimental Demonstration Site of All Training (OPPV). Stadiums were then called “grounds,” and Vseobuch was engaged in preparing pre-conscription youth for service in the army. Under the guidance of instructors, the young men learned to march, practice shooting, running, gymnastics, skiing, etc. For this purpose, Vseobuch used the OLLS site, built in 1912 in Sokolniki.
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(Moscow).
Previous names:
OLLS (1911-1923),
OPPV (1923-1927),
CDKA (1928-1940, 1942-1950),
Red Army Team (1941),
CDSA (1951-1956)
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CSK MO (1957-1959),
CSKA- since 1960.
Colors: red and blue.
7-time USSR champion (1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1970, 1991),
5-time winner of the USSR Cup (1945, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1991),
3-time Russian champion (2003, 2005, 2006),
3-time Russian Cup Winner (2002, 2005, 2006),
UEFA Cup winner(2005).However, until 1923, OLLS and its football team, strictly speaking, did not have an official relationship with the future of CSKA, but simply shared their home base with it. Or rather, Vseobuch used the OLLS stadium. Moreover, the OLLS football team in the early 20s of the last century was one of the strongest in Moscow. When the establishment of OPPV on its basis was announced, almost all the “skiers” smoothly flowed into the newly created sports society, and OLLS ceased to exist.
So judge for yourself what exactly is considered the founding date of the CSKA football club. Or on August 27, 1911, when the OLLS football team, which at that time had nothing to do with the army, played its first match. Or, after all, the date April 29, 1923, approved back in 1963 by order of the USSR Minister of Defense. Or maybe the starting point should be considered the beginning of 1918, when in the young Soviet Republic a Decree was issued on the organization of military commissariats and, in fact, General Education?
There is no point in arguing here: those who support one point of view or another will be right in some ways and wrong in others. After all, why not celebrate birthdays twice a year? Moreover, such discrepancies are noted in the history of many domestic and foreign football clubs. We will add that at first OPPV retained the colors of OLLS - dark blue T-shirts and white shorts. Its players wore this uniform after 1928, when OPPV was renamed CDKA. And only in 1939, in the third season of their participation in the competitions of the highest league of the USSR championship, the army men began to perform in the now familiar red T-shirts and blue shorts.
In the history of CSKA football, two “golden” periods can be distinguished. One of them occurred in the first post-war years, when the red and blue team, popularly nicknamed “the team of lieutenants,” won five championship titles over the course of seven years and won the USSR Cup three times. The second rise of army football happened already in the 21st century and was marked not only by three victories in the Russian Championship and the National Cup won the same number of times, but also by a triumph in the UEFA Cup. Thus, CSKA became the third - after Dynamo Kyiv and Tbilisi - in the history of domestic and the first team in the history of Russian football to achieve such a significant achievement in the European arena.
“Championat.Ru” congratulates you on the 96th anniversary of its foundation and wishes you new great victories for the glory of Russian sports!
Today, April 29, the Central Sports Club of the Army (CSKA) turns 93 years old. The successes of the army club representatives are the calling card of Russian sports. CSKA athletes are reliable defenders of the sporting prestige of our Fatherland. Over its almost century-long history, the army club has trained more than 400 thousand athletes, who brought 1,364 Olympic awards (579 gold, 418 silver and 367 bronze medals) and more than six thousand awards from the World and European Championships to the national teams of the USSR and Russia, which is an absolute record among all sports organizations in Russia. Now CSKA cultivates 57 sports (41 Olympic, 9 non-Olympic and 7 military-applied), which are practiced by more than 16 thousand athletes from 126 Russian cities - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, from Severomorsk to Sevastopol. Under the flag of Vsevobuch! The glorious history of the army club began on April 29, 1923 - on this day the first football match between warrior-athletes for the capital championship took place. Then Muscovites saw for the first time a team with a previously unknown sports emblem OPPV - Experimental and demonstration site of Vsevobuch (universal military training). It was formed under the Central Directorate of Military Training of Workers on the basis of the pre-revolutionary “Society of Ski Lovers” (OLLS) and was located in Sokolnichesky Park in Moscow. The OPPV players played their first match, in which the army team lost to the Ruskabel team with a score of 1:3, in dark blue T-shirts and white shorts - the army football team retained these colors until 1939, when the red and blue colors that are familiar today were adopted The new base of the central sports organization of the Red Army, located in the center of Sokolnichesky Park in Moscow, was repaired by volunteers, the stands of the stadium were expanded, a 350-meter long running track was prepared, sectors for throwing and jumping, and several playgrounds were put in order. The primary focus of the OPPV's work was the military-applied sports: athletics and weightlifting, gymnastics, boxing, shooting and skiing. 
CDKA In February 1928, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Central House of the Red Army (CDKA) named after M.V. Frunze was opened, where on February 8 the OPPV joined with all bases and teams as a department of physical culture and sports. From that moment on, all military athletes began to perform with the CDKA emblem. National teams for sports are created on the basis of the CDKA. At the front From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, CDKA athletes exchanged sports equipment for military weapons. Shock ski battalions of the army, demolition and reconnaissance groups fought on the front line and behind enemy lines. Many CDKA athletes switched to military-physical training of the active army reserve: they trained instructors in hand-to-hand combat, skiing, and reconnaissance units of the Red Army. In the 18 months since the beginning of the Second World War, army athlete Olga Ovsyannikova alone taught 2,698 soldiers and schoolchildren hand-to-hand combat, grenade throwing and skiing. 
In the spring of 1943, CDKA again assembled a football team to participate in the Moscow Football Championship and Cup. The opening of the season took place on May 30, 1943 at the Stalinets stadium in Cherkizovo, where the crowded stands declared more clearly than any words the revival of the traditions of peaceful life in Moscow. The 1943 football championship ended in a decisive meeting between the eternal rivals, in which the army team defeated Dynamo with a score of 3:1. Central House of the Soviet Army In the first post-war year, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army, and CDKA henceforth became known as the Central House of the Soviet Army (CDSA). By the end of the 40s, CDSA had become one of the largest sports centers in the country. Famous army coaches and athletes returned from the front to the CDSA sports teams, and the game teams were gaining strength: football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, and water polo. CDSA football players won gold medals as USSR champions for three years in a row (in 1946, 1947 and 1948). 
In 1952, army men, along with other Soviet athletes, took part in the first post-war Olympic Games in Helsinki, the program of which included 149 competitions in 21 sports. It was a triumph for Soviet athletes, who won 106 Olympic medals, including 38 gold. The first Olympic champions of the army club were Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva, Shazam Safin, who won gold in Greco-Roman wrestling, Mikhail Perelman in gymnastics and discus throwing, Anatoly Bogdanov in rifle shooting, Trofim Lomakin in weightlifting. Gymnasts Dmitry Leonkin, Mikhail Perelman and Joseph Berdiev became champions in the team championship. Moreover, army athlete Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva is the first Olympic champion in the history of domestic sports. From CSK MO to CSKA A year later, in 1953, athletes from the CDSA and the Air Force of the Moscow Military District (VVS MVO), who performed in the all-Union sports arena as separate teams, united into the Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense (CSK MO). By this time, the sports club of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, created in the post-war period, was firmly established on Leningradsky Prospekt, next to the central airport of Moscow named after M.V. Frunze on Khodynskoye Field. The old hangars of the Khodynka airfield were rebuilt into training and game rooms, and the first indoor swimming pool in Moscow was built. This is how a new army sports base was born, which later became the center of the entire sports life of the USSR Armed Forces. 
Finally, in 1960, by decision of the military department, the Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense was renamed the Central Sports Club of the Army (CSKA), the success of which is now enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of fans. Despite the long, four-decade history of the name, CSKA’s birthday is celebrated on April 29, 1923. Victory loves heroes By the end of the 60s, all branches of the USSR Armed Forces were involved in training athletes for the highest achievements in sports. Over two decades, saber fencers Stanislav Pozdnyakov, Viktor Sidyak, Viktor Krovopuskov, speed skater Evgeny Grishin and swimmer Vladimir Salnikov won four Olympic gold medals. Hockey players Vladislav Tretyak, Viktor Kuzkin, Alexander Ragulin, Anatoly Firsov and Andrey Khomutov, figure skater Irina Rodnina and saber fencer Vladimir Nazlymov climbed to the Olympic sports podium three times. Getting into CSKA became prestigious, because every athlete understood that this was a direct path to the national team, to the heights of his sports career. 
On April 29, 1983, the CSKA Sports Hall of Fame was opened in front of the building of the CSKA officers' club. The solemn event was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the formation of the army club. Then 15 busts of army legends were installed - heroes of the Olympics, World and European Championships. In front of each bust, spruce trees were planted, which even now, decades later, preserve the memory of those days. Later, CSKA Alley “moved” to the administration building of the army club, where it is located now. In the bronze line of CSKA there are 34 busts of famous army athletes, coaches and sports figures, such as Vsevolod Bobrov, Viktor Kuzkin, Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Konstantin Reva, Stanislav Zhuk, Yuri Vlasov, Irina Rodnina, Viktor Kapitonov, Vladislav Tretyak, Yuri Sedykh, Anatoly Karpov, Anatoly Tarasov, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Gomelsky, Victor Tikhonov, Alexander Ragulin, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Vladimir Salnikov, Anatoly Roshchin, Yuri Vardanyan, Vladimir Kuts, Valery Kharlamov, Oleg Belakovsky, Alexander Zavyalov, Anatoly Bogdanov, Anatoly Margiev, Yuri Chesnokov, Evgeniy Grishin, Arkady Vorobyov, Nina Ponomareva, Viktor Krovopuskov, Vladimir Kuzin, Gennady Volnov, Sergey Belov. Friendship through sports CSKA's priority tasks today are preparing the club's athletes for successful performances at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as organizing and holding the III Winter Military World Games 2017 at the Olympic venues in Sochi. At the Winter Olympics in Sochi, representatives of the army club won 9 gold medals. And at the III Winter Military World Games, CSKA athletes will compete for medals of the highest standard. The decision to hold the III Winter Military World Games in Russia was made on May 22, 2015 in Kuwait at the 70th General Assembly of the International Military Sports Council. About 4,000 athletes from 60 countries will take part in the Military Games in Sochi. The sports program will consist of 7 sports: biathlon, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, ski orienteering, ski mountaineering, rock climbing, short track. And military athletes from the Central Sports Club of the Army will take part in each of them.
Today, April 29, on the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the army club, the head of CSKA, Colonel Mikhail Baryshev, congratulated all the fans of the army club and upset its rivals: “At all competitions, representatives of our club will be faithful to the club motto: CSKA will always be the first!”
