Iliya Sorokin

The future CSKA goalkeeper was born in the summer of 1995 in the Kemerovo region. The first years of Ilya Sorokin's life passed in Novokuznetsk. Soon the family moved to another city of metallurgists - Mezhdurechensk.

The future KHL player started skating as a 5-year-old child. Ilya grew up as a versatile boy - he was fond of hockey and alpine skiing. Parents discovered hearing in their son and took him to a music school. He attended solfeggio lessons and mastered the piano.

Soon the music lessons were crowned with participation in the city competition of young talents. Continue the guy to improve his piano playing, who knows how fate would have turned - Sorokin, even today, in his leisure hours, picks up the chords on the instrument from memory.

But as a teenager, Ilya left all classes for hockey, success in which he was inspired. From the age of 7, the young athlete was put on the gates of the Vympel children's hockey team, and since 2009, at the age of 14, he was admitted to the Novokuznetsk Metallurg club. There was only enough time for training and lessons. Relatives supported Ilya, although there were no athletes in the family: his grandfather was a miner, his father worked at a motor depot.

The debut of Ilya Sorokin in the Kontinental Hockey League took place when the young man turned 17. In October 2012, the athlete was put on the goal in his first JHL match. For 2 seasons, the goalkeeper participated in 36 matches and missed 88 goals. The game against the team "Chaika" from Nizhny Novgorod turned out to be triumphant for Ilya Sorokin: the goalkeeper did not concede a single goal.

Ilya Sorokin's first competition for the Metallurg team took place in early 2013. The opponents of the Novokuznetsk hockey players were athletes from Astana. In the game against Barys, Metallurg was losing, which became the reason for the replacement of goalkeeper Alexander Lazushin with Sorokin. Ilya went on the ice on the 36th minute and in less than 25 minutes conceded only one goal of the opponent, repelling 15 attacks of the Kazakhs.

The first 60 minutes on the ice, Ilya Sorokin held out in mid-February 2013: Metallurg fought the Lokomotiv hockey club from Yaroslavl. Ilya's club was going through hard times, and hockey fans had to raise money so that Metallurg would not disappear. When all the worst was over, the club's fans presented the promising goalkeeper with new equipment - Ilya grew out of the old one.

At the age of 18, Sorokin faced new challenges: in order to stay afloat, the club sold out the best players, who were replaced by young and less experienced ones. Ilya was made the main goalkeeper. Such a responsible assignment crippled the athlete's health: after the deterioration of the results and a nervous breakdown, the goalkeeper was persuaded to seek help from a psychologist.

Ilya's coach, Nikolai Mishin, then shared with reporters that the goalkeeper's mission in the team of masters is difficult for an adult player, and even more so for a guy who is barely 18. The situation was complicated by the fact that Ilya Sorokin, due to constant summer training camps, did not rest and did not go through the preseason games with the club. The foundation, without which it is difficult to pass the championship exactly, was not laid, which affected the player in early autumn.

Classes with a psychotherapist helped Ilya get out of the dark strip and level the game. Soon Sorokin managed to "pull" his native Metallurg from the last lines of the KHL rating. And even though during this period Ilya Sorokin did not amaze with the results, but sports experts called him the best goalkeeper of the continental league.

2014 was a turning point for Ilya: the hockey player was called to CSKA. At first, the young goalkeeper was on the sidelines, but next season he amazed the coach, experts and fans with brilliant statistics. A 163-minute dry run and 4 matches against SKA, for which the goalkeeper parried 97.84% of the shots, brought the player to the top of hockey Olympus.

In the niche of the star goalkeeper, Ilya Sorokin entrenched himself, setting a reliability record: in 20 playoff games within the cup, named after Yuri Gagarin, he could not beat off only 28 goals.

In October 2014, the headquarters of the national team called the goalkeeper to the Karjala Cup tournament in Finland. Sorokin's debut for the Russian national team took place in the first decade of November: Czech hockey players competed against the country's team. The Russians won 4: 2, the goalkeeper missed 2 goals. In 2015, Ilya Sorokin became the silver medalist of the 39th World Championship among youth teams, which was held in Canada.

Russian sports experts call Ilya Sorokin the best goalkeeper in the KHL and remember the star of the National Hockey League Sergei Bobrovsky. But for Ilya, Sergey is more a friend than a rival. Sorokin learned a lot from a senior colleague. Both hockey players entered the Russian national team at the 2016 World Cup.

In the same 2016, Ilya Sorokin was identified by the commission that analyzed the statistics of the players' performances as the best goalkeeper. On the official website of CSKA, the goalkeeper No. 90 has repulsed 94.50% of shots on goal for the year. Sorokin's reliability factor is a record - 1.33. Ilya's debut at the World Cup in 2016 turned out to be successful: the national team with his help beat the Norwegians 3: 0.

In 2017, Ilya Sorokin was offered a game in the NHL for the American club "New York Islanders", which won the Stanley Cup four times. But after advice from his family, the Russian goalkeeper did not go to Brooklyn, but signed a 3-year contract with CSKA.

The goalkeeper from Kuzbass, whose height reaches 1.88 m, was included in the Top-7 eligible hockey players, compiled by the women's magazine JLady. Ilya Sorokin did not have time to start a family, like his older colleagues, and therefore remains under the scrutiny of the beauties. Whether Ilya's heart is free and whether the famous goalkeeper has a girlfriend is unknown.

Sorokin's name cannot be found in secular news and glamorous tabloids, he never became a hero of scandals. In his free time from games and training, the CSKA goalkeeper loves to read. The last books he read were called The Godfather by Mario Puzo and Martin Eden by Jack London.

Ilya Sorokin admitted to reporters that since childhood he was fond of aircraft technology and admired the work of pilots. On his Instagram page there is a photo where Ilya is captured in the cockpit. This is a Boeing flight simulator, where future pilots or amateurs are explained the device design, show step-by-step take-off and landing processes.

In December 2017, the athlete became the best goalkeeper of the month in the Continental League of the 2017/2018 season according to the indicators provided by the statistics and analytics department of the KHL Information Bureau. In 2017, the goalkeeper won 5 out of 7 matches. Maximum dry series of Sorokin - 125 min. 53 sec.

Ilya Sorokin is in great shape and ready for the Olympic competitions. According to him, he closely followed the scandalous situation around the Russian Olympic team and received with pain the news of the refusal of the best Russian athletes to participate in the games in Pyeongchang.

2015 - Champion of Russia 2015 - Silver medalist MFM 2016 - Best goalkeeper KHL 2016 - Silver medalist of the Czech Republic 2015 - Winner of the Continent Cup. V.V. Tikhonov 2016 - Winner of the Continent Cup. V.V. Tikhonova 2016 - Bronze medalist of the 2017 World Championship - Winner of the Continent Cup named after V.V. Tikhonova 2017 - Bronze medalist of the World Championship

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The rising star of Russian hockey Ilya Sorokin became the goalkeeper of the Continental Hockey League at the age of 17. The youngest in the history of the club. At 18 he defended the honor of Metallurg Novokuznetsk, and at 20 the guy was named the best of the KHL goalkeepers. But the athlete's fans are sure that the main achievements of the two-time bronze medalist of the world championship and the silver medalist of the youth World Cup are ahead.