Dmitry Frolov – the legendary Russian ice hockey coach and player (Part 1)
Three times he became the Soviet champion, in the Russian team, Dmitry Frolov became world champion in 1993. Today, Dmitry is working as a coach, having sought to cooperate with several teams of the youth hockey league.
Starting a business
The hockey school in SSR Kazakhstan is quite strong. Since then, many famous players were born. Teams from Ust-Kamenogorsk, Karaganda played superbly in the national championship. Not getting rid of hobby hockey and little Dima enrolled in the hockey section. Physically strong, the persistent guy makes rapid progress and is already in his teens and starts to shine in junior tournaments.
Dmitry Frolov’s statistics in hockey have counted down since 1982, when he was fifteen, making his adult debut for the Builder Builder team, from Kazakhstan’s Temirtau team. The club played later in the Allied Championship’s second league and did not particularly shine.
However, the resilient, indomitable defender gave a pleasant impression and promised to develop into an excellent hockey player. After leaving Temirtau his hometown, Dmitry spent two seasons at SSR Kazakhstan’s top club Karaganda Avtomobiliste.
In the elite department
According to Dmitry, when he was a domestic player, a large number of youth tournaments were not held, and young hockey players had to cross their path to success, elbow pushing. into mature players. The same goes for hockey player Dmitry Frolov, who arrived at Dynamo Kharkov at the age of eighteen, not having a guaranteed position in the first team.
The Ukrainian team later played in the first League Championship, and the young defender soon became a staple of team interactions.
He spent two years in Kharkov, after which he went to play in the premium league for Motivation from the city of Riga. Here, Dmitry Frolov also spent two seasons, attracting the attention of coaches from the best teams in the country. From Latvia, the hockey player left the Dynamo club for the third time in his life.
The golden years
The real star players were gathered here, and during the first few seasons, Dmitry Frolov spent a lot of time off the pitch, with no place in the first team. As a result, he asked the club management to return to Kharkov for a while, so as not to lose training and hone their skills in the games for the First League club.