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The European Football Championship is behind us, and the start of the next Russian championship is ahead. Fans, of course, are interested in whether the level of domestic competition will rise, or, at best, will it mark time?

 

“WE WOULD RAISED PEOPLE LIKE YAMAL”

- Spain is the European champion. Tell me honestly, after watching the matches of the best teams of the continent, are we far, maybe even hopelessly behind?

- Well, the Spaniards allowed themselves such technical tricks that not only us, but also representatives of other countries are far from their level. Not all of them, of course, but most of their opponents. The point, of course, is not so much in the tricks, but in the level of high-speed technology, which brought them real benefits during all the Euro matches with their participation.

We still have a lot of games back, so the tempo is average and it lacks sharpness. The same Spaniards, if they pass back, do so only with an eye to finding gaps in the opponents’ formations and instantly realizing their technical and speed superiority. This is the essence of beautiful, truly effective football.

- All football fans were delighted by the young, 17-year-old forward Lamin Yamal, again from the Spanish national team. Is it ever possible for us to train masters of this level?

- It’s possible, it’s possible, but a state philosophy is needed in such things. While it is not visible. Basically, coaches working with children are focused solely on results; preparing bright individuals is not part of their plans. So, figuratively speaking, Yamali and Tyukavin are needed, not a place in the table of this or that youth team, you understand? The psychology here is flawed.

There is an acute shortage of truly creative coaches; in fact, there is no one to work with children and young people. That’s why there are no “stars”, or they appear, like Tyukavin, extremely rarely.

 

FIND SCHIRWINDT IN FOOTBALL!

- In a recent interview with our channel, Alexander Tarkhanov proposed giving entire regions to famous coaches like Romantsev, Gazzaev, Semin, etc., so that they could train youth football mentors there. After all, their knowledge remains unclaimed to this day, and these specialists could bring a lot of benefit...

- What a great idea! Well, similar organizational things should be done in the Russian Football Union, in our Premier League. And money must be allocated for this. The return seems quite tangible and real. Now, I repeat, many things in terms of training young personnel look poor. Yes, in a number of regions the football infrastructure itself is quite good, but again there are no qualified coaches.

Take an example from the world of theater and cinema. Here is an outstanding actor, director Alexander Shirvindt, who recruited future actors into his studio, polished the edges of their skills there, and Shirvindt was not the only one who did this. Later, the most talented people came out of their tutelage.

And you can do the same in football. Get the same Romantsev group of young people, study with them, and you’ll see, and the mentioned Tyukavins will appear. Of course, the work of mentors should be adequately paid. And not like in traditional youth sports schools they pay pennies. Coaches sometimes go to private schools, where the income from work is higher, you can understand them...

Now, for example, wonderful masters - Alenichev and Titov are out of work. Well, give them a group of young people aged 17-19, let them start preparing them. I think the young men themselves will be pleased with such guardians. And in general, the benefits for Russian football are tangible.

- Okay, why is Zenit now noticeably ahead in terms of selection, and in general in the organization of football? After all, competitors lag behind, sometimes hopelessly...

- Look who works at the Zenit academy now - Arshavin, Radimov, Zyryanov, famous players. Of course, their own, home-grown personnel will appear there faster than in other Russian clubs. Plus, the selection is solid at the adult level; just anyone is invited to St. Petersburg.

- From the outside, it seems that Zenit set out to “rob the competitors dry.” That is, the “super task” is to weaken others, and “the grass will not grow.” Is it normal?

- Here you need to look: if a player comes to Zenit for big money, and is ready to sit in the reserves for this, that’s one thing. But Glushenkov, who transferred from Lokomotiv, is clearly going to play and grow in skill. He already showed his worth in the recent Super Cup match against Krasnodar, scoring a double. You see, it’s different for everyone, it doesn’t fit the “one size fits all”...

- The dominance of foreign coaches in Russian football is obvious. Is this justified? So they called Serb Stankovic to Spartak. Why not invite Alexander Mostovoy, who has long been eager to work in his native club, at least as an assistant to the “chief”?

- Why on earth would you call Mostovoy? Just because he once performed in a club?! I think this is absurd. No experience of such work, nothing at all. Spartak, no matter how you treat it, is not an ordinary team. Let Mostovoy work first, say, in Ural, in another, not the most significant club. He will achieve something. Then it is logical to invite Alexander to his favorite team. Sergei Yuran, in my opinion, quite clearly showed himself to be the “main” in different teams, and even then they did not dare to invite him to the same “Spartak”, in which he was a noticeable personality as a player. And Mostovoy, as a coach, did not work anywhere...

Great, I think, Beskov worked in the modest, by the standards of big football, capital FSM, and nothing, he trained more than one generation of great players. This is before working in big clubs - Dynamo, Spartak, the USSR national team. Semin showed himself brilliantly in Pamir Dushanbe, and only later became head of the capital’s Lokomotiv, with whom he achieved impressive success. So, excuse me, I’m closing the topic of “Mostovoy as a coach” for now.

 

Cunning AGENTS, “BLACK” BOTTOLIZER

- Crime in Russian football has not gone away. The referees are “strange” in such a way that you can’t help but think: they were given a “handicap” even before the start of this or that match, they work disgracefully...

- Hardly. Judges are now subject to merciless “prosecutorial supervision” in the form of watching episodes on Var. Well, they will see, if anything, this bias. You take the “left” money in some match, and then they’ll throw you out for such tricks, and that’s it. Your career will end quickly; who wants to be left behind? In addition, similar verdicts have already happened; some cunning referees were disqualified for life.

- The scourge of football is agents. Among other things, they were seen playing on the “black” betting system to please, by the way, the football “bugs” who dictate their rules to everyone and everything. According to knowledgeable people, businessmen from the popular game withdraw up to half a million euros for matches played in one or another round of the Russian championship. So the agents train their players on the eve of specific fights so that they play “giveaway” for the sake of the interests of the mafia...

- I can’t say anything about the “black” betting; I don’t have any specifics. But agents, to put it mildly, who are not very clean, can “sell” very worthless players to clubs, this is true. Alas, team coaches cannot always understand the quality of the “flow” of such masters. Naturally, teams that fall for the bait of rogue agents then lose in the level of football. These are the realities...

Interviewed by Alexey Matveev

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