Vladislav tretiak biography
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Vladislav Aleksandrovich Tretiak
Tretiak was born April 25, , the son of a physical education teacher. A love of sports rubbed off on the young Tretiak. "Many of the future hockey stars like (Alexander) Bodunov, (Gennady) Lapshenkov and (Vassili) Titarenko went through her (his mother's) class," he mentions.
After participating in sports, including track and field, basketball, volleyball and skiing, Tretiak discovered hockey.
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"I found an old wooden stick with a funny curve at the end of it," he laughs. It was his mother's field hockey stick. "I found out she had participated in the Moscow championship. In the s, all females played field hockey in Russia.
I forgot all about my other toys when I first saw that hockey stick. I pushed rocks around in the backyard with it," says Vladislav