Valery Schyrjajew

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UkraineUkraine SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Valery Schyrjajew Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 26, 1963
place of birth Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR
size 178 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1991 HK Sokol Kiev
1991-1993 EHC Biel
1993-1996 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1996-1997 HC Davos
1997-2003 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2003 EV train
2003-2004 SC Bern
2004-2005 SCL Tigers
2005 HC Servette Genève
2006 EHC Biel
2006-2008 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Valery Wiktorowytsch Schyrjajew ( Ukrainian Валерій Вікторович Ширяєв , Russian Валерий Викторович Ширяев / Valery Viktorovich Shiryaev * 26. August 1963 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Swiss - Ukrainian hockey player and coach, who spent most of his career in Switzerland.

Career

Schyrjajew began his career in the ice hockey school Sdjuschor Lada in Togliatti . From 1980 he played for Sokol Kiev in the Wysschaja Liga , the top division of the Soviet Union . In 1985 he reached third place in the championship with Sokol. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he did not change how many other players in the National Hockey League , but to Switzerland for EHC Biel in the National League A . By then he had scored 65 goals in 414 games for Sokol.

For EHC Biel he played until 1993 before it from Chaux-de-Fonds HC La from the second-rate National League B has been committed. With HC La Chaux-de-Fonds, he made it to the NLA in 1996, but was signed by HC Davos after this success . For this he completed 52 games in the 1996/97 season , in which he scored 44 points. In the summer of 1997 he returned to HC La Chaux-de-Fonds, with whom he was relegated to the NLB at the end of the following season . At the end of the 1999/2000 season Schyrjajew succeeded with the HC La Chaux-de-Fonds the return to the NLA, but a year later the relegation to the NLB followed. On January 17, 2003, EV Zug signed the two top scorers of HC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Schyrjajew and Omar Tognini , in order to still reach the playoff ranks. For EV Zug, Schyrjajew only played seven games, as he was the fifth foreigner to rarely play.

At the beginning of September 2003 he was hired by SC Bern , since at that time a naturalization of Schyrjajew was likely. With SC Bern he reached the playoff final for the Swiss championship in the 2003/04 season , in which he and his team defeated HC Lugano 3-2. In October 2004, Schyrjajew received Swiss citizenship and thus no longer fell under the quota of foreigners in the National League. Before that, he switched to the SCL Tigers within the NLA .

In April 2005, Schyrjajew moved to HC Servette Genève at the age of 41 . Schyrjajew stayed at Chris McSorley's club until the end of 2005 . On December 30, 2005 he moved to the EHC Biel in the National League B. With the EHC Biel, he won the 2006 National League B championship and left the club after this success.

Between 2006 and 2008 he played again for HC La Chaux-de-Fonds, where he went on the ice with his son Yevgeny Schyrjajew in his last active season . On December 22, 2008, the 45-year-old declared his playing career over due to a chronic knee injury. During his career, he played over 900 games in Switzerland, in which he scored 285 goals and contributed 580 assists.

After the end of his career he became an assistant coach at HC La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 2009 he looked after the Neuchâtel Young Sprinters in the same position, but left the club in September 2009. Since mid-October 2009, Schirjajew has been the head coach of HC Yverdon-les-Bains from the 1st division .

Valery Schyrjajew is married and has a daughter (Daryna) and a son ( Jewhen ) who is also an ice hockey player.

International

Valery Schyrjajew represented the Soviet Union at the Junior World Cup in 1983 and the Men's World Cup in 1989 . In both tournaments he won the gold medal with the Sbornaja . He also took part in the 1985 Winter Universiade , where he won another gold medal.

After the collapse of the USSR, he played for the Ukrainian national ice hockey team and with this managed to move up from the C group of the World Cup to the top division. He also took part in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City .

After the 2004 World Cup , Schyrjajew resigned from the national team and worked parallel to his playing career until 2007 as assistant coach to Olexander Seukand , the national coach of Ukraine.

Achievements and Awards

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NLA qualification 8th 294 83 158 241 274
NLA finals 7th 50 16 20th 36 52
NLB qualification 9 326 148 330 478 468
NLB playoffs 9 94 38 69 107 90
Vysschaya League 11 414 65 101 166 269
Olympic games 1 4th 2 1 3 2
A world championship 6th 34 6th 8th 14th 22nd
C world championship 2 10 5 10 15th 8th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b eishockey.ch, Schirjajew receives Swiss citizenship
  2. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , SPORTS FACTS - Hockey
  3. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , SC Bern signs the "oldie" Valeri Schirjajew
  4. ↑ Blick.ch , Schirjajew: 41 years and not yet NLA tired
  5. ^ Blick.ch , NLA elder Schirjajew zu Biel , December 30, 2005
  6. ↑ a b sokol.kiev.ua, interview with Valery Schyrjajew
  7. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , resignation of Valeri Schirjajew
  8. ↑ ch.sportalsports.com, Valery Schirjajew no longer in Neuchâtel
  9. ↑ sport.ch.sportalsports.com, New job for Schirjajew
  10. ↑ hcyverdon.ch, 2010/2011 season - 1ère équipe
  11. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Ukraine: A discontinued model?
personal data
SURNAME Schyrjajew, Valerij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shirjaev, Valeri; Shiryayev, Valeri; Shiryayev, Valeri; Ширяєв, Валерій Вікторович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Ukrainian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union