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In his speech, published
"I have been in the hockey locker room since the age of 18, the last 22 years on the coaching bench. After consulting with my family, important people in my life, the club, I decided to finish the job as the head coach of "Ak Bars". I am grateful to all those who have been with me for 14 years, all the players and all the fans who came to the pits. This team will always be in my heart, "said a 64-year-old specialist.
At the same time, Bilyaletdinov remembered that it was at Ak Bars that he was supported by inviting
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Bilyaletdinov has made a name in the field of training before his arrival at Ak Bars. In the mid-1990s, he was the first Russian specialist to work in the National Hockey League (NHL). From 1993 to 1997, Bilyaletdinov was badistant to the head coach in Winnipeg. The club was transferred to Arizona and was renamed Phoenix. A specialist from the similar position occupied
After returning from North America, Bilyaletdinov spent seven years with a break in a business trip to the Swiss "Lugano", at the head of "Dynamo", which led in 2000 to victory at the Russian championship. In 1998 and 1999, he led to the final of the Euroleague. At the same time, he coached the national team at the 1998 and 2002 Olympic Games, as well as at the 2000 World Championships. After leaving Dynamo in 2004, the specialist became the team's head coach. He went to the World Cup, where Russian hockey players lost to the Americans in the quarter-finals.
However, it is at Ak Bars that they began to compare Bilyaletdinov's work to an entire era.
His career in Kazan started unsuccessfully. The famous coach was invited in the hope of leading a team composed of
The management of the club did not return Bilyaletdinov after this failure. Perhaps the fact that for most of the 2004/2005 season, as head coach of the national team, left the national team coach and focuses on Ak Bars for the next six years played his role. As Bilyaletdinov himself later recognized, the club became his second family.
The next season, Ak Bars has no NHL stars (Alexei Morozov, returned from North America a year earlier), but with a troika actually acting on the ice in the person of Morozov, Danis Zaripov and Sergey Zinoviev became the champions of Russia. In January 2007, Kazan won the European Cup and reached the final again in the spring.
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After the formation of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), the "Ak Bars", in which Moroz, Zaripov and defender Ilya Nikulin, who have long been the symbols of the club, played the main role, won the Gagarin Cup two times in a row. At the end of June 2011, Bilyaletdinov was at the head of the Russian national team and had signed a contract with the country's ice hockey federation until the end of the Sochi Olympics.
The decision of his transfer to the national team was taken at the governmental level, and the specialist had to work precisely as a released coach. These conditions were put to him. He could not refuse the request.
The world championship in 2012, the Russian national team under the leadership of Bilyaletdinov, shone brightly, becoming the winner of the tournament and winning all matches. However, the next two seasons with the national team were the worst of a specialist's career. First, there was a loss to the Americans in the quarter-finals of the 2013 World Cup (3: 8), then an identical start at the same stage of the final of the Olympiad (1: 3). It can be said that these results put an end to the work of a specialist of the national team.
After returning to Kazan, Bilyaletdinov quickly healed the injuries caused by the failures of the national team. He was able to form a new team that did not shine with him in the regular season, but gained momentum in
Winning the Gagarin Cup – 2018 allowed Bilyaletdinov to repeat the record number of trophies won by Oleg Znark (3), all three of them won with one team. However, the specialist has not managed to become the most awarded coach of the KHL – this spring, Ak Bars flew to the first round since Avangard (0-4).
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The authority Bilyaletdinov could allow him to continue working with the team. However, according to the president of "Ak Bars" Nail Maganov, a coach asked the club's management a month ago to resign.
"At first, they suggested to him not to hurry with the decision, to wait for the emotions to calm down and to ask him to continue working with the club. Zinetula Haydyarovich met today with the President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, where he confirmed his desire to leave the post of head coach of Ak Bars. Bilyaletdinov remains in the club system as honorary president of the Ak Bars hockey academy, named after Yu. I. Moiseyev, "he said.
«Rustam Nurgalievich [Минниханов] We sincerely thank Zinetula Khaidirovich for the great contribution he has made to the training of the "Ak Bars", for the trophies won, the titles and many years of work for the benefit of hockey in Tatarstan. His name is in gold letters forever inscribed in the great story of "Ak Bars", "- noted Maganov.
Leaving Bilyaletdinov as head coach of the team could also affect the career of another club legend, Danis Zaripov. Only five times winner of the Gagarin Cup with KHL, he won three of his trophies with Bilyaletdinov. His contract with the Kazan club expires at the end of April.
"I myself have seen the news recently, I was surprised, everything was unexpected because nothing was presage," said Zaripov, 38. "As to whether his departure can affect my fate at the club, anything can happen."
"I'm not ashamed to say that Bilyaletdinov is the best coach of the moment, with a competent approach to everything. Such specialists are necessary for our league and our teams. I'd like it to continue in
It is likely that Bilyaletdinov is now fully focused on the career of his grandson, Alexander Romanov, who plays CSKA as a defender,
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