Pavel Bure is a great hockey player of our time. For his amazing game. the will to win, he received the well-deserved title "Russian rocket".
Career
Pavel was born on March 31, 1971 in Minsk. The father, despite his busy schedule, began to train his sons from early childhood. He gave them to football, swimming, diving. Pavel and Valery grew up noisy and restless, so the strictest discipline reigned in the house.
When Pavel was 6 years old, he was sent to the CSKA children's hockey team. In 1988, the young man made his debut in a match against Dynamo Riga, where he scored his first goal. Such a successful debut gave Pavel the opportunity to extend his contract with CSKA until 1991. During this time, he became the champion of the USSR 2 times, and also 3 times was the owner of the European Champions Cup. The hockey player was named the best striker and scored the most goals in his team.
In 1991, Pavel Bure moved to the United States to take a place on the Vancouver Canucks team. In the first season of the game as part of the new team, Bure was recognized as the best and received the title of "Russian Rocket". It was thanks to him that the team regularly got into the playoff list. Pavel scored 60 goals in 2 years of playing for the Vancouver Canucks.
The next year Bure signed a contract with the German team Landshut and Moscow Spartak. In all matches, the hockey player scored at least 2 goals.
In the 2000s, Pavel Bure began to have serious health problems due to constant injuries, so he decided to end his hockey career. But nevertheless, he does not leave sports at all, Bure begins to deal with the organizational issues of the Russian national hockey team.
Since Pavel Bure brought many victories to his teams, he was included in the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame and the NHL Hall of Fame. Now the star oversees the hockey clubs of the Kuban and the "Night" Moscow amateur hockey league. And since 2015, Pavel Bure has been the head of the International League of World Hockey Legends.
Personal life
Since the hockey player devoted all his time to sports, he did not work out with his personal life. He was credited with an affair with Anna Kournikova, Jame Bon, but the famous forward met his soul mate only at 38 years old.
Pavel Bure married in 2009, a model from Naberezhnye Chelny, Alina Khasanova. The girl turned out to be 15 years younger than her lover, but such a difference in age did not allow to darken or spoil their union. Now Pavel and Alina have three children: 2 girls and a boy, the whole family lives in Moscow, having renounced US citizenship. The former hockey player keeps himself in great shape, playing sports for 3 hours a day. In addition, the star is now actively training his son Pavel, practicing with him not only hockey, but also swimming.
Income
At the beginning of his career, Pavel Bure received 120 rubles for the CSKA team. a month, and moving to the Vancouver Canucks, he increased his income to tens of millions of dollars.
In 1996, the Vancouver Canucks hockey club extended their contract with Pavel Bure for 5 years. At the same time, the hockey player's remuneration was $ 24.5 million. But at the beginning of the season, "Russian Rocket" gets a kneecap injury. The doctors did their best, but Bure could no longer play at the same level, although he remained a very productive player for his team.
In 1998 Pavel moved to Moscow, the Vancouver Canucks are trying to exchange the striker or sell to another club, while Bure loses $ 5 million. Finally, everything is working out in favor of the star, he goes to the Florida Panthers. The owners of the club enter into a phenomenal contract with Bure, according to which they pay him $ 50 million. In the history of the national team, this is the most expensive contract with a hockey player.
In 2004, Pavel Bure topped the list of athletes who, according to Forbes magazine, had the largest fortune, with an annual income of $ 10 million. And the athlete received this money, although he could not enter the game even in half of the matches, because injuries made themselves felt regularly.
Pavel Bure watch business
In 1999, Pavel Bure began to understand that his injuries would not allow him to hold out on the ice for a long time. Therefore, in order to have an additional source of income, the hockey player decides to revive the family business: antique watches.
The watch factory was founded in 1815, and in 1874 production was transferred to Switzerland. The company produced two types of watches: exclusive custom-made and custom-made, for a consumer with an average income. Moreover, by order of the imperial court, the Bure factory began manufacturing products for officials, foreign diplomats, cultural figures and the military.
Natural stones were used to decorate the watch, and the state emblem was present in the logo. In 1916 the Bure watch company patented the chronograph mechanism of its own design. All this increased the cost of the product.
Now the former hockey player Pavel Bure is engaged in the revival of production. He has already presented the watch to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. There are persistent rumors that Bure is investing in real estate. He and his family live in an apartment on 2-nd Frunzenskaya, which is very richly furnished, and a few years ago she was robbed by a housekeeper, taking with her 1 million rubles worth of stolen goods.
All this suggests that currently Pavel Bure earns excellent money and he managed to revive and raise the business with antique watches.
