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Born in Moscow, Valery Kharlamov, despite being relatively small in size, is regarded by many as one of the
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masters of the game. He combined speed, rapid acceleration, and superb stickhandling
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together with creative and
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moves that kept the
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Kharlamov
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systematic training to play hockey at age 14 when he was admitted to the Children and Youth Sports School of CSKA on Leningradsky Prospekt, where his first trainers were Vitaly Erfilov and Andrei Starovoitov. At the age of twenty, he
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to the Soviet Union's national team to compete on the world stage. In 1971, playing in the Soviet Union Elite League for CSKA Moscow, his goal-scoring earned him his first "Best Sniper Award" and he
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to the National All-Star team. The following year, Kharlamov
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international recognition when he led his national team to the Gold Medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics. He capped off the
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season by winning the scoring competition and being given the first of his two consecutive Soviet Union MVP Awards.
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