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The legendary goalkeeper Dmitry Harin is 55 years old on August 16

He was valued by the fans of Torpedo, Dynamo, CSKA and Chelsea. And of course, fans of the national team, with whom he won Brazil, revered the gold of the Olympics in Seoul. By the way, our first Russian at Stamford Bridge was completely lucky to speak for three national teams - the USSR, the CIS and Russia. And he won medals and cups with his clubs in the XX century and in the XXI.

Dmitry Kharin has long been living in England and rarely comes to the historical homeland. As a matter of fact, he finished his career on the foggy Albion, which indicates primarily his demand. Now he trains the goalkeepers in Hemel Hempsted Town - a village semi -professional team dangling in the lower leagues. Someone grins: I also have a serious level ... And you try to break through and join this business in the homeland of football. Here Leonid Slutsky, with the help of Roman Abramovich, trained “Hull” for six months, and he was blown away. Harin without any oligarchic support with minor breaks for almost two decades (before that he cooked in Luton and Stevenshez) gives people their experience in gloves. And he can teach a lot. And not only the goalkeepers. Even the great and mighty former captain of Chelsea and Three Lviv, John Terry, in his interviews more than once mentioned that Dmitry gave him, a 17-year-old guy who had just taken the first steps in the adult arena, many useful, irresistible, like a penalty, advice.

Harin himself, who played with his feet, was cleaner than some defenders, in the form of “pensioners” reflected 5 out of 11 strokes from the “point”. And according to this indicator (45.5% of the reflection of strikes), he is still the leader of the Premier League.

It is interesting that the Muscovite, who sometimes performed, by the way, of the eleven meters in the USSR Cup, did not wait for Stamford Bridge with open arms. The then captain of the “blue” Kevin Hitchcock stated that the Russian, who was bought for 400,000 pounds, will conduct his entire contract on the bench. But soon he went there himself. And the legionnaire from Russia jumped out from Chelsea to the final of the Cup of England - 1994 against Manchester United. He missed four goals from the “Red Devils” in the second half, but no one blamed him. The main thing is that in that season with his confident actions it was the goalkeeper who saved the weak metropolitan squad Glenn Hoddle from the “business trip” to the first league. And they would fly out - you look, and then there would be no “Chelsea” that later thundered to the entire planet.

In 1996, Kharin got into a hospital bed-he had a rupture of the cross-shaped ligaments. This was not the first and not the last trauma to the goalkeeper, who, in fact without playing, became the owner of the Cup of England, the Cup of the English League, the Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. In the Scottish "Celtic" at the junction of centuries, the picture was almost repeated. The old damage as a result of an unsuccessful operation did not allow to fly in the corners in full force. As a result, the conflict with the coach Martin O'nil, with only a dozen matches at the base, but Dmitry nevertheless brought the golden double (victory in the championship and the cup).

It is curious that in the early 2000s CSKA offered a broken-over-reversed Harin, who helped the club become the last champion of the USSR, again put on a red-blue sweater. But he refused, although it was precisely in that army period that he liked the English Bayers. Remember how, in November 1992, Gennady Kostylev and his team, led by Captain Harin, knocked out a powerful Barcelona, ​​who had mined the Champions Cup in May and broke into the group stage? And a little earlier, Dmitry shot at the European championship in Sweden as part of the CIS national team. Yes,

That team of Byshovtz Lavrov did not gain, but her first issue forced the whole Holland to cry. After the blows of Bergkamp, ​​Raicard and Van Basten, the ball stopped in the hands of Harin every time.

In 1994, the French magazine Top Foot conducted a large-scale survey in order to choose the best goalkeeper in the world. And the current anniversary, finding himself in the company of Kepke, Rossi, Ravelli, Shmeichel, Taffarel, Pondum, Lama, Goykoechea and de Guy, took 8th place. Unfortunately, at the United States, a spectacular goalkeeper, who won competition with Stanislav Cherchesov, did not turn into the savior of the Russian national team in battles with Brazilians and Swedes. However, Dmitry was remembered by the fact that he did not sign the scandalous “letter of fourteen”, which made a split and confusion to the camp of the main team and eventually weakened the entire team on the eve of the most important forum ...

The Italian World Championship - 90 passed without the participation of Harin, who in March broke the very long -suffering ligaments of the knee. But he was visited by the place of the replacement of Rinat Dasaev ... Dmitry was comforted by the Dynamo bronze of the union spill. It is noteworthy that six years in a row (from 1986 to 1992), despite all sorts of conflicts, he fell on the list of 33 best football players in the country.

In 1988, young Harin was lucky and indispensable. A curly handsome with an excellent reaction spent all six matches along the Olympic tournament in Seoul and in the finale in 120 minutes missed only one Brazilian attack from Romario.

Brazilians in yellow T -shirts cheerfully answered Dobrovolsky and Savichev, and the USSR national team rose to the Golden Pedestli after 32 years. It was, as it turned out, the last epoch -making victory of domestic football.

And Dima made his debut for his native metropolitan “Torpedo” in 16 years and 97 days. And this, whatever one may say, is a goalkeeper record for all Soviet times.

Happy birthday, Dmitry Viktorovich!