Viktor Serebryanikov: "Sabo is illiterate, and Byshovets is dishonorable." Retract your words

SEASON	CLUB	GAMES	GOALS
02/03	Bruges	28	1
	Championship	17	1
	Cup	3	0
	Eurocups	8	0
03/04	Bruges	7	0
	Championship	6	0
	Cup	1	0
04/05	Bruges	8	0
	Championship	5	0
	Cup	1	0
	Eurocups	2	0
05/06	Charleroi	12	1
	Championship	12	1
	Bruges	3	0
	Championship	2	0
	Eurocups	1	0
06/07	Cercle Bruges	12	1
	Championship	12	1
07/08	Cercle Bruges	35	6
	Championship	33	6
	Cup	2	0
08/09	Cercle Bruges	36	3
	Championship	31	2
	Cup	5	1
09/10	Cercle Bruges	34	2
	Championship	26	2
	Cup	3	0
	Playoffs	5	0
2010/11	Cercle Bruges	32	0
	Championship	23	0
	Cup	3	0
	Eurocups	3	0
	Playoffs	3	0
2011/12	Roselar	31	0
	Championship (2)	31	0
(Championship (2)):		31	0
(Championship):		167	13
(Cup):		18	1
(Eurocups):		14	0
(Playoffs):		8	0
TOTAL:		238	14

Serebrennikov came to Kiev "Dynamo" since the time of Lobanovsky. Kyiv scouts drew attention to him, Yashkin and Kormiltsev, and already in Kyiv all three became Ukrainians. Career in the Palace of Culture for all three failed, some of them had injuries, some of them had competition. As a result, during the 02/03 season, he unexpectedly moves to the Belgian Club Brugge. Unexpectedly, because usually all the players of the non-primary squad in Kyiv either sit in reserve for years, rent out, but never leave. And Serebrennikov left, and in the camp of one of the leaders of the Belgian championship.

He started well, but soon injuries began to torment him and he was treated more often than he played. This was tolerated for almost two seasons, but having started the 05/06 season at Club Brugge, during the season he was loaned to the mid-season championship camp, Charleroi. After Brugge, he had good playing practice here. As a result, in the summer he moves to the camp of another club from Brugge - Cercle. Of course, European competitions were out of the question here, but there was a stable playing practice. True, and here he was tormented by injuries. In the new season 07/08 he was joined by another Ukrainian Oleg Yashchuk, who returned from the Greek "Ergotelis", and before that 10 years defended the ranks of another leader of the Belgian championship "Anderlecht". Both started the season at the base, and Serebrennikov even became a full-time penalty taker. In the first round it seemed that Cercle even had a chance to compete for a place in the Champions League, but in the second round the lack of experience and a short bench affected. And yet the club became the fourth, although it did not reach the place in the UEFA Cup. It was decided to refuse participation in the Intertoto Cup so as not to disrupt the preparation for the season.

Serebrennikov became a real leader of the team, in which his compatriot Oleg Yashchuk is experiencing a second youth. If the club keeps its leaders De Smet, Sutter, then it can continue to fight for serious places. And the management understands this, because the contract with Serebrennikov was extended for another two years until 2013, when the player turns 36 years old. In the next season, he will probably earn a grandmaster mark of one hundred matches in the Belgian Jupiler League.

Serebrynikov, Viktor Petrovich. Midfielder Master of Sports of the USSR of international class (1966). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1967).

A pupil of the Zaporozhye team "Metallurg". The first coach is Nikolay Domoratsky.

He played in the teams "Metallurg" Zaporozhye (1956 - 1959), "Dynamo" Kyiv (1959 - 1971).

Champion of the USSR 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971 USSR Cup Winner 1964, 1966

In the USSR national team he played 21 matches, scored 3 goals. He played 5 matches for the USSR Olympic team and scored 4 goals.

Participant of the World Championships in 1966 (4th place) and 1970.

Head coach of the team "Frunzenets" Sumy (1973). Head coach of the Niva team Podgaitsy (1977 - 1978).

Honored Coach of the Byelorussian SSR. Honored Coach of the USSR.

IMPACT B« WEB»

"Forwards of Dynamo Kyiv, champions of the country of the 1999/2000 season, are being awarded by four-time USSR champion Viktor Serebryanikov," the presenter said, and the Palace of Ukraine burst into applause. "That's who it's time to remember," the coach of the national team, Leonid Buryak, who was sitting next door, casually remarked. "He was a wonderful football player, and an extremely modest person."

After all, I myself am quite familiar with Serebrynikov, although I have not seen him for many years. And it was all the more pleasant and exciting to meet him in Kyiv near the Dynamo stadium and take a walk in the picturesque park named after General Vatutin. Only now my interlocutor spoke with much greater pleasure not about himself, but about people of big sport - coaches and players with whom his football fate brought him together over the long years of a bright career.

"PACK UP QUICKLY!"

In what year and from where did you move to Kyiv?

In the 59th from Zaporozhye. At that time I played for the youth team of the USSR. Together with Moscow Torpedo players Posuello and Oleg Sergeev, Ananchenko from Shakhtar Donetsk, Kolbasyuk from Moldova Chisinau, Valentin Troyanovsky from Dynamo Kiev. I remember meeting in Leningrad with the Bulgarians - they were European champions. Of the two goals that led to a draw, I scored one.

Probably, a crown dribble kick from a free kick into the top corner?

No, from the game. He took the ball on his chest and, not letting it touch the grass, shot it from the summer - the ball from the bar hit the ground and flew right under the crossbar. True, we played in the wind, but still it turned out beautifully. After the match, our senior coach Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Solovyov comes into my room - and we lived in Astoria. And Posuello and Sergeev are visiting me. He, not paying attention to them, orders me almost from the threshold: "Come on, quickly pack your things and go home to Zaporozhye!"

Did you want to be expelled from the national team for violating the regime?

Not really. And we didn't break the rules in any particular way. Solovyov just knew that well-known clubs had already started hunting for me - for example, CSKA. And he was supposed to lead Kyiv from day to day and, apparently, he counted heavily on me. But the most interesting thing is that, in principle, I was not going to leave Zaporozhye anywhere. Firstly, we had a good team - Korshunov Sr., Terentiev, Gornostaev, Pavlov ... Secondly, speaking in class B, we made good money on bonuses, because we often won, and therefore, I admit, I didn’t go to class A were torn. And thirdly, the authorities had just given me a separate apartment, where we all together - my mother, brother, sister and I moved from a communal apartment. In a word, people treated me like a human being, and I did not want to offend any of them terribly.

In what sense?

In the sense that if I went to another team, then of course they would be upset and offended by me - a young player with great promise.

But you still left...

And what was to be done - the draft age. They wanted to transfer me to CSKA through the Odessa military district - Zaporozhye was a part of it. But Solovyov had already accepted Kyiv and in a matter of hours made sure that I served in Dynamo. In short, as the players say, he played ahead of the curve.

And can you remember which of the experienced Dynamo players you found in the team?

Of course, I can: Vitalik Golubev, Gramatikopulo, Golodets, Yura Voinov, Suchkov Tolya and the wonderful goalkeeper Oleg Makarov of our Ukrainian Yashin. Then I played with some of them longer, with some less. But it immediately became obvious to everyone that Solovyov was heading for rejuvenation. The competition was terrible. It's no joke to say - 12 attackers! Well, as they say, the strongest survived.

"PLAY UNTIL YOUR KNEES BREAK"

Gradually, the young probably ousted the old-timers from the composition, forcing them to prematurely end their careers.

Well why?! Not all finished. There were also those who played out in other teams to a power age for football. Still, we lived better than the people, and therefore the players of my generation, while they were strong, did not hang boots on a nail. Once, as I remember now, I met in Baku the defender of the Moscow “Locomotive” Ivan Morgunov (he was a lot of years old by football standards) and I told him: “Well, Vanya, are you still playing?” And he answered: "I'm playing. And I'll play, Vitya, until my knees wear out!"

So this is the same Morgunov, who at the exam in history could not name at least one system, according to which society developed, starting from the primitive. And then the teacher threw him a lifeline, asking bluntly: "Well, what kind of society do you live in now?" “Me?” Morgunov asked, and immediately triumphantly reported: “Like in which one - in Lokomotiv, of course!”

This story later turned into a joke, I heard it in a variety of companies. But seriously, without laughing, then the defenders were fast. And in the “Locomotive”, and in other teams. Otherwise, it was impossible to keep up with such sprint forwards as Valery Urin from Dynamo Moscow, German Apukhtin from CSKA, Slava Metreveli from Torpedo.

That's for sure! But speed, in my opinion, was not your trump card.

You are wrong. I ran well. 30 meters - in 3.8 - 3.9 seconds. Even Vitaliy Khmelnytsky and Anatoly Byshovets, who are clearly pronounced forwards, showed worse results. Although they certainly had their merits.

Did you immediately start playing right insiders?

No, Solovyov assigned me to the left flank of the attack instead of Viktor Fomin, who parted with football. And under me, Valera Lobanovsky played. But he didn’t supply me with balls as often as I would like - most likely because my left leg is “foreign”: I’m a right leg. I’ll slip along the edge, but I can’t give it exactly to the left. As long as you take the ball under your right foot, the defender is right there. And he worked almost empty. This means that the partners also made jerks for nothing, 50 meters each, because of which, of course, they looked askance at me. And then one day after the match, I could not stand it, came to Solovyov and blurted out: "I won't play left wing anymore!" And he just spread his hands: "Quickly, Vitenka, you caught the" starfish ". "No, Vyacheslav Dmitritch, I have remained the same as I was. And if it seems to you that Serebrynikov is arrogant, then it is better to let him go to another team."

"I DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO NAMES"

However, Solovyov did not let you go anywhere.

I didn’t let him go, but he immediately transferred me to a double for re-education. But I played ten insider matches there. And, apparently, it worked out well for me, if Solovyov set up for the main team against the Moscow “Spartak” in Kyiv. And remember who played for Spartak - Simonyan, Salnikov, Ilyin, Isaev ...

Net, Paramonov.

Maslenkin Mishka. In general, whoever you take, the Olympic champion of Melbourne. But I did not pay attention to big names, and therefore I was not a bit shy. He worked inside from the first to the 90th minute and scored another goal. And we played - 3:3. Since then, I have not given the number eight T-shirt to anyone for a very long time.

And Lobanovsky began to enter the field under the 11th ...

Right. But, in my opinion, he didn’t have to play as a winger, but somewhere closer to the center, a little in the pull - after all, he was a thinking, creative football player. And then flank forwards - they, as a rule, were of low stature, but at breakneck speed. But Lobanovsky, with his impressive dimensions, did not possess such speed. But due to dribbling, unexpected and prudent passes, twisted shots from set pieces, especially from corners, when the ball flew in an arc into the goal, he invariably remained a prominent figure on the field in the 60s.

It was then, in the early 60s, that Soviet football fans witnessed a sharp duel between Dynamo Kiev and Torpedo Moscow.

Victor Alexandrovich Maslov then rejuvenated the torpedoes. Excellent midfielders Nikolay Manoshin and Valery Voronin appeared in the middle of the field. By the way, in the "Zenith" is also a good pair of midfielders crept up - Dergachev - Zavidonov. But for some reason, she did not play as brightly as the torpedo one. Manoshin was such a calm, technical, intelligent player. Voronin, on the other hand, knew how to do everything on the field: and, having exploded, get away from the opponent, and put the ball into the legs of a partner, and, if necessary, give him a move, and break through, and win any single combat. And how he played with his head! What can I say - Valery was a first-class footballer, and in decisive moments he could break the whole game.

Hand on heart, confess: did you happen to see a player taller than Voronin at that time? To me - no.

Yes, he was one of the best in the world at that time. Voronin can be safely attributed to the elite company, which included, for example, the German Franz Beckenbauer and the British Bobby Charlton. Both of them were outstanding personalities. Voronin - too. I can’t even single out any of the three of them - each was great in its own way. No wonder the famous Adidas company, they say, until the last day of his turbulent life, with ups and downs, sent him gifts to Moscow in the form of bags filled to the brim with football ammunition, from boots to civilian suits.

And yet, in 1961, Voronin and his “Torpedo” were forced to give way to your team. And in order for the people of Kiev to repeat their success, it took five years. Although the line-up by that time was very good.

Agree. But in 1962 we simply failed. And at the World Championship in Chile, where I went with my Dynamo partners Jozsef Szabo and Viktor Kanevsky, I was terribly unlucky because an injury did not allow me to play. Just like the torpedo player Gennady Gusarov.

"LEV IVANOVICH'S NERVES DID NOT STAND"

But upon returning to the Union, the country's sports leadership did not accuse you of all mortal sins, like, say, Lev Yashin after the match with the hosts of the tournament.

What can I say about this - the tragedy happened. Nerves, perhaps, for the first and last time, Lev Ivanovich could not stand it. But something like this can happen to anyone. Yes, two balls were in his goal. But after all, our outfield players failed to score as much or one more. Why didn't they come to the rescue of the goalkeeper who saved the teams - both Dynamo Moscow and the USSR national team - as many times as no goalkeeper could ever dream of. And what a fighting character Yashin had! Such a flurry of unfair criticism would force another to leave the gate forever. And Yashin only needed quite a bit of time to take a breath, come to his senses and take up his post again, to prove that he has no equal in the country or in the world.

By the way, he was adored abroad. No, they even idolized. Both in Europe and in Latin America, the fans, in my opinion, did not care which team came to them - the national team or Dynamo Moscow. Already at the airport they were vying with each other asking the same question: "Is there Yashin? Is there Yashin?" And often for some reason they emphasized the second syllable.

You met with Yashin in the national team after competing on the field, defending the honor of your club teams. But the matches between representatives of the Central All-Union Council "Dynamo" have always been of a super-principled nature. It is curious how Lev Ivanovich behaved in relation to yesterday's rivals?

Very friendly. And for me, he was like a father. Apparently, I liked him somehow. Dada, he always took care of me, supported me. Although, as you correctly noted, sometimes, playing for Kyiv, I had to upset him on duty.

"I WILL DISSOLVE EVERYONE!"

Fate brought you not only with amazing partners, but also with phenomenal coaches.

Absolute truth. And with Mikhey, as Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin was called in Moscow, who knew football very well. And with Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov, for whom, it seemed, there were no secrets left in the game. Listening to each of them, I discovered something new for myself. But I also met coaches on my way who grinded such nonsense that I sent them in my soul along with loud calls somewhere far away.

Fortunately, Victor Alexandrovich Maslov never made loud speeches in my memory. Meanwhile, the coach was from God. But it's not for me to tell you...

Yes, Maslov had an unusually simple language. And sometimes he did not avoid strong words if the essence did not reach one of us. Even now I hear his voice, a little hoarse, ironic and at the same time firm, not brooking objections. Once we were just about to leave the locker room for a game, and he stopped us at the door and said: “You know, a full stadium came in. Why did people come? watch on TV. Yes, then I will disperse you all, because you are worthless ... "

The most interesting thing is that Maslov did not cheat on himself, no matter who his interlocutor was - he cut the mother-truth in the eyes of anyone. Outsiders were strictly forbidden to enter the locker room, and even Shelest, the first secretary of the Central Committee of Ukraine, not to mention his subordinates, remembering this, did not dare to violate Maslov's unwritten law before the game.

I believe that not all party and sports leaders of Ukraine Viktor Aleksandrovich evoked sympathy.

You guessed. Many, many people did not like Maslov with his once and for all established strict rules. It is no coincidence that he was forced to part with Dynamo Kyiv, which, under his leadership, repeated the achievement of the legendary CDKA, becoming the country's champion three times in a row. To achieve this, it was necessary to have an excellent team, and Maslov created it, the first to catch the changes in the development of football. After all, the Brazilians in Chile abandoned the "double v" system, which we adhered to. And Maslov, seeing progress in this, remade the game of our team and its tactical construction in a modern way. "We are starting to play a different kind of football," he once told the team. "And whoever doesn't understand me will have to leave."

Our coach did not throw words into the wind and, having sacrificed several leading players, he proved himself right. Although the team never experienced such tension as during that perestroika. What is there to argue: one coach out of a thousand would dare such a bold experiment. Yes, Maslov also found a suitable place for the construction of a new football base - in Koncha-Zaspa, where, thanks to sandy soil and excellent drainage, even in heavy rain we did not knead mud, but trained on a grass field without a single puddle.

And yet, in the hearts of far from all Dynamo fans, Maslov's experiments - at least until they gave such an amazing result - found support.

I myself was convinced of this when, it happened, I imperceptibly sneaked up to the crowd of fans arguing to the point of hoarseness. To be honest, I just wanted to say to them: “Boys, sit down at least once in one sector - then you will see the game in the same way. from the gallery."

The case, it happened, almost came to a fight. But on the other hand, maybe that's why they are fans, so that they can defend their point of view to the end, regardless of any authorities. How poor football would be without them, who in my time overflowed the stands of giant stadiums in Moscow, Leningrad, Kyiv ... And we played for them. Not thinking about the money we were paid. And about cars that could be bought without a queue. Although, of course, they appreciated the benefits that were provided to the players "from above". Doubly appreciated, because our generation is the generation of children of the hungry war years.

But it, getting on its feet in the harsh post-war years, fought so fiercely and passionately for the realization of its dream, like, perhaps, no other.

Dreams, dreams ... Many of them came true, with the exception of one - Pele never had a chance to meet face to face on the field. I saw him playing for Santos, for the Brazilian national team, I hoped that in England at the World Cup in 1966 our paths would cross. But that did not happen. By the way, Pele was mercilessly beaten there, and the Portuguese defender Cleaver finished off completely. But, by the way, it was impossible to deal with Garrincha in Chile without a foul. This devil "undressed" everyone. We also, I remember, joked: it’s easier to bury it on the field than to take the ball away ...

INSTEAD OF AFTERWORD

At that moment, I caught myself thinking that approximately the same thing, only replacing the verb "take away" with "catch", the goalkeepers were thinking about Serebryanikov when he carefully set the ball to complete his signature "dry leaf". They were powerless to block the ball, and he invariably crashed into the "web", as the players call the top corner of the gate.

“I didn’t sleep at night before the matches with Dynamo Kiev, puzzling over how to get the ball spun by Serebryanikov, one of the most reliable goalkeepers in the history of national football, Anzor Kavazashvili, admitted to me when on July 19 I congratulated him on his 60th birthday and told about a recent meeting with Viktor Serebryanikov. - And in the late autumn of 1969 in Kiev, in the match for gold medals, Judge Kharms appointed a penalty kick to our Spartak gates before the end of the curtain. I divide the "wall" into two parts, and I myself take a position in the center of the goal - to have time to reach any corner. With the first blow, the Kiev resident sends the ball to the right, and I take it tightly. Following the first, the second followed, since Kharms asked for a break. Serebryanikov spins the ball into the left "nine", but only thanks to me at home the blank manages to fend him off Strangely enough, I did not have any followers, and probably for this reason Victor continued to upset my colleagues until the very day he left the football field e".

« LOBANOVSKII TOLD MASLOV THAT HE IS A JEWELER»

Viktor Serebryanikov - Dynamo Kyiv player in the 1960s. A master of free kicks and a favorite of the famous coach Viktor Maslov. Serebrynikov makes an appointment at his Kyiv apartment. Serves tea.

Can you compare the football of your time and the current one?

The difference is in the approach to business. Our young athletes go abroad, or at least most of all they want to get into a foreign team. And Ukrainian clubs at the same time buy second-rate legionnaires. A top-notch foreign footballer won't come here to play with our money.

In 1971, at 31, you retired from football. Why?

They started to bend their knees. In particular, at the 1966 World Cup in England, I had an infringement of the fat body of my right leg. It happened that he went one on one with the goalkeeper. A convenient situation for a strike, but at the last moment the knee jams. It went without surgery. But he also shortened his football life.

Do you remember interesting stories from football life?

I'll tell you one. It was in 1962. We flew across the ocean. As soon as the plane gained altitude, the flight attendants began to tell how to act during an unscheduled landing. About an air mattress that has a whistle and shark powder. And suddenly we went downstairs. All to the windows, we see - and there one of the four outboard turbines is burning. To put it mildly, the situation was tense. Frankly, in such cases, there are no iron people. So I decided to wait in the tail of the plane, in the toilet. He stood there silently and held the door. I had my first gray hair at 22.

You had to play with Valery Lobanovsky. What kind of person was he?

Calm, but at the same time ambitious. I remember the match with Yaroslavl “Shinnik”. We played in a draw - 2:2. Although they won during the meeting. Then from Maslov, or, as we called him, Grandfather, everyone got it. The coach also reached Lobanovsky: "And you, Valera, what did you do?" He replied that there were jewelers and laborers on the field. Maslov took off his glasses: "And who are you?" Valery replied: "I am a jeweler."

Viktor Petrovich, you were lucky to play at two Mundials. Which one do you remember the most?

Each World Cup was special in its own way. But in England in 1966 we played better. Then there was a great composition. Coach Nikolai Morozov prepared the team well. But I'm out of luck. On the eve of the match against Italy, the coaches determined the tentative line-up. The rest went to a banquet with the mayor of Sunderland. Yashin asked me to "stretch" him a bit - to beat him on goal. And I got injured during this training. Knee swollen at night. Voronin was put in my place. Valery pounced: "Silver, what are you doing?! I was at a banquet yesterday! Is it possible to mock friends like that?" But he played great.

You were good at taking free kicks. There was an expression "Serebryanikov's arc". How did you practice the skill?

This is not an "arc" at all, but an invention of journalists. The ball tucked through the "wall". Twisted or cut. In training, Vyacheslav Solovyov arranged "walls" for us from shields. I tried to break through the shield and could do it from two positions. Scored several goals. Opponents began to carefully study my style and put an additional player in the "wall".

Is it true that you studied with the young Oleg Blokhin?

Yes. Maslov asked him, then 17 years old, to work with him. His speed is incredible on the field. The impression is that the players are just turning around, and Oleg has already beaten them. But there was one problem: running to the gate, he could not score or pass a pass from the right. But later, when I scored, the handsome guys came up with goals. If a person has talent, then it is from God.

What football matches are you watching now?

Champions League, UEFA Cup. Because of this, I did not sleep for several days. So football is already in my liver.

A month and a half ago, the leadership of Kyiv "Dynamo" changed the head coach of the team. Was it worth it?

In my opinion, no. The season has already begun. The released coach Anatoly Demyanenko had an idea about the physical and psychological state of the players.

FIRST		OLYMPUS		UNOFFICIAL		DATE	MATCH	FIELD
And	G	And	G	And	G
		1	2			22.07.1963	USSR - FINLAND - 7:0	d
		2	3			01.08.1963	FINLAND - USSR - 0:4	G
		3				31.05.1964	GDR - USSR - 1: 1	G
		4				07.06.1964	USSR - East Germany - 1:1	d
		5	4			28.06.1964	GDR - USSR - 4:1	n
1						11.10.1964	AUSTRIA - USSR - 1:0	G
2	1					22.11.1964	YUGOSLAVIA - USSR - 1:1	G
3						29.11.1964	BULGARIA - USSR - 0:0	G
4						23.02.1966	CHILE - USSR - 0:2	G
5						18.05.1966	CZECHOSLOVAKIA - USSR - 1:2	G
6	2					22.05.1966	BELGIUM - USSR - 0:1	G
7						05.06.1966	USSR - FRANCE - 3: 3	d
8						20.07.1966	CHILE - USSR - 1:2	n
9						28.07.1966	PORTUGAL - USSR - 2:1	n
10						24.09.1969	YUGOSLAVIA - USSR - 1:3	G
11						15.10.1969	USSR - TURKEY - 3: 0	d
12						22.10.1969	USSR - NORTHERN IRELAND - 2: 0	d
13						16.11.1969	TURKEY - USSR - 1:3	G
14						14.02.1970	PERU - USSR - 0:0	G
15						20.02.1970	PERU - USSR - 0:2	G
16	3					22.02.1970	SALVADOR - USSR - 0:2	G
17						26.02.1970	MEXICO - USSR - 0:0	G
18						05.05.1970	BULGARIA - USSR - 3:3	G
19						06.05.1970	BULGARIA - USSR - 0:0	G
20						31.05.1970	MEXICO - USSR - 0:0	G
21						10.06.1970	SALVADOR - USSR - 0:2	n
FIRST		OLYMPUS		UNOFFICIAL
And	G	And	G	And	G
21	3	5	4	–	–

March 29 marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most famous football players in Ukraine, the legendary inventor of the unique "arc" - Viktor Petrovich Serebryanikov.

Everyone knows Viktor Serebryanikov as one of the brightest stars and legends of Dynamo Kyiv. But meanwhile, he is not a pupil of the Kyiv school. The hero of the day began his football career in Zaporozhye, or rather, in the main city team - Metallurg. In those days, the club played according to a very common double-ve system, the place of the left inside in such a formation was occupied by Viktor Serebryanikov (of course, he liked it more on the right, but in his younger years you couldn’t really argue with the coach, especially in those times when the authority of a player was determined not by talent, but by age). In the second half of the 50s, there was a fairly strong, experienced team in Zaporozhye. The club played in class "B" (the current first league), but there were many players who tried their hand at the top division. The most famous of them, perhaps, are Sergey Korshunov, Gornostaev, Pavlov and Viktor Terentyev (the one who helped Dynamo win the USSR Cup in 1954; then Viktor Vasilyevich returned to Kiev as a coach). Among the experienced Viktor Serebryanikov did not get lost, on the contrary - everyone noted his usefulness to the team in terms of performance, combinational talent. Serebryanikov could not fail to get into the strongest club in the country! Later, however, it did. But this move was preceded by one adventure ...

An unexpected invitation

In the spring of 1959 Metallurg held a meeting in Leningrad. On the way, Serebryanikov was asked to stay in Moscow for a while. For what? Why? Naturally, no one explained, they simply told me to come to the Committee on the Arbat. The nineteen-year-old youth, seized with a sense of doubt and uncertainty, began to search. After wandering around and asking around, the Committee found Serebryanikov, and there they answered: “I came at the wrong time!”. However, just in case, they were sent to the base in Tarasovka. And there, as it turned out, Starostin and Gavriil Kachalin trained the youth team of the country. So that's what it is, otherwise go there, I don't know where ... Serebryanikov was received in his own way and after three days of work in the team they appreciated his talent. Viktor Petrovich later recalled this moment: “Gavriil Dmitrievich came up to me and said, they say, Vitya, go to Luzhniki - your team, the youth team, is going there.” To ride means to ride, not everyone gets such an opportunity to prove themselves. In addition, if we recall the composition of that youth team, where only Muscovites played - Torpedo, Spartak, railway workers, and only a few non-residents - goalkeepers from Perm, Kolbasyuk from Moldova, Valentin Troyanovsky from Vinnitsa - then getting into the composition of such a team, I think , is worth a lot. Just at that time there was a total confrontation between the national teams of the USSR and Bulgaria. The first team of the country and the youth team played in Sofia, the Olympic team fought in the qualifying match in Luzhniki, while the youth team played in Leningrad. Before the trip to the city on the Neva, Solovyov's team (namely, he trained the young men) had a sparring session with the youth team, for which the mentor put up only Muscovites, and frankly did not give a damn about the "legionnaires". But Gavriil Kachalin arrived in time. Before the game, he approached Serebrynikov and said: “Vitya, why don’t you undress?” “Places,” he answers, “are not in the composition.” Kachalin called Solovyov, they argued about something for a long time, after which Solovyov, angry and red like a tomato, ran up and said: “Where are you playing?” - "Right insider". - "Undress!" The debut was successful.

And this is despite the defeat 3:4: Serebrynikov scored his goal. With the Bulgarians in Leningrad, he played even better and scored a goal again (took the ball on his chest and, without letting it touch the grass, hit it from the summer - the ball from the bar hit the ground and flew under the very crossbar; ours, however, played in the wind, but all it turned out beautifully), and after all, the Bulgarians at that time were European champions; the fight ended with a score of 2:2. To celebrate, the guys chipped in gold pieces and decided to celebrate the success.

A place of "relaxation" was found immediately - Serebrynikov offered his hotel room (by the way, Viktor Petrovich still remembers that number 205 - they say Yesenin hanged himself there). They drank, ate, talked - Muscovites campaigned for their clubs, recalled the match - in general, ordinary table talk. And then, unexpectedly, in the midst of the fun, the furious Soloviev bursts into the room (and this mentor demanded discipline not only on the field, but also in everyday life - he went from apartment to apartment, was interested in who spends their leisure time ...) and rushes straight to Serebryanikov: “What are you doing here? You don’t have to mess with them: pack your things and go to your village!” The second coach of the national team, Veniamin Krylov, was already on the hook, he put the “village” in the car and took him to the station on the Zaporozhye train. And in August of the same year, Solovyov took over Dynamo Kiev and sent Viktor Terentyev to fish out Serebryanikov from Zaporozhye (Vyacheslav Dmitrievich laid eyes on him even after sparring with the youth team).

Mowed down from the army

Viktor Petrovich later said that he moved to Dynamo not at all because it was the strongest club in the country. Thus, we managed to hide from the army… At that time, Moscow was already sending messengers with news… I didn’t want to leave, by and large, neither to the army (read - CDSA), nor to Kiev. But choose the lesser of two evils. Yes, now the reader may not agree, exclaiming: “This is Kyiv!” And what was Kyiv for Serebrynikov then? Everyone in Zaporozhye knew him, loved and respected him. Moreover, he had a luxurious apartment in his hometown, and the money at Metallurg was big (acting in class B, the players made good money on bonuses, because they often won, and therefore they weren’t particularly eager to get into class A ... ).

Having moved to Dynamo, Serebrynikov began to play on the not very desirable left flank. But there was no alternative: Viktor Fomin had already finished at that time, and then Ivan Dikovets also fell ill. It was not possible to join the team, the game was difficult, something constantly interfered with showing all one’s capabilities (and also this notorious left flank - Viktor Petrovich later recalled that he tortured himself and his partners because of the feeling of “not at ease”). At the spring training camp in 1960, Serebrynikov flatly refused to play out of place. Such a frank disregard for the coaching tactical plan in those days could cost expulsion from the team, but it cost ... Solovyov’s wild cries: “You, boy, are trusted with a place in the first team, but you refuse! Go to double, compete.” But even such an alignment for Serebryanikov was like manna from heaven: well, I will compete, because for my favorite place! And the rivals in the double were still the same - Biba, and Troyanovsky, and even Kanevsky fought for the place of the right insider. Nevertheless, it was the “rebel” who made his way to the base.

"Duga Serebryanikov"

And even then, Serebrynikov showed himself in all his glory: incredibly efficient, one might say - two-core, with excellent vision of the field, technique, gambling excitement, and a blow. His strikes are still legendary. It was Serebrynikov who continued Lobanovsky's work on the cut shot (he made the ball spin simultaneously in two planes - vertical and horizontal). His free kicks acquired formidable force for goalkeepers - the ball and the wall went around, and at the same time went into the goal from top to bottom. The footballer worked on this kick for four years and perfectly mastered it. This blow was called the "Arc of Serebryanikov" (it was called so at the suggestion of the well-known journalist Arkady Galinsky). By the way, when making such a blow, you need to be able to endure the pain: a relaxed knee plus a sharp click strike - imagine what kind of load goes on the ligaments, how tense they are. But in training, such a blow must be repeated more than a dozen times, respectively, and the pain should be experienced the same amount. Once in the Football magazine, there was even an article devoted to the famous blow: some theorist claimed that Serebrynikov hits his boots in a special way and the ball, spinning along an intricate trajectory, flies over the wall. This theory was even clearly confirmed by ballistic calculations ... Finishing the topic of the "arc", let's say that even Viktor Maslov himself did not believe in the developed skill until the last. Once in 1969, Serebrynikov managed to score ten such free throws in games. "Grandfather" held him up after training and said: "Come on, show me how you do it." After the demonstration, Maslov shook his head: "Look, I thought these were bad goals."

Dreams Dreams…

Viktor Petrovich had a beautiful and eventful life in football. She played with especially bright colors during her performance for Dynamo! How many fans then applauded him, how many opponents could not catch him on the field (at that time there was hardly a player faster in Dynamo: Serebrynikov ran 30 meters for 3.8). Perhaps everything was in the magnificent football life of Viktor Petrovich - captaincy in Dynamo and the Olympic team, world championships, won championships of the USSR, Cups of the country! It would seem that all dreams came true ... “Dreams, dreams ... Many of them came true, with the exception of one - I never had a chance to meet Pele face to face on the field. I saw him playing for Santos, for the Brazilian national team, I hoped that in England at the World Cup in 1966 our paths would cross. But that did not happen". On his birthday, I would like to wish the hero of the day that this unfulfilled dream remains the biggest disappointment in his life!

Funny case

In 1964 Dynamo won its second National Cup. However, the game with the young but energetic team "Wings of the Soviets" was very difficult. The first half was equal, no one wanted to concede. During a break, the first secretary of the Ukrainian Central Committee, Petr Efimovich Shelest, literally burst into the locker room with the words: “Boys, dear ones! I ask you: play, otherwise the Muscovites tortured me! Then, just as quickly, he ran away. In the second half, Kanevsky scored the winning goal. After the match, they made a lap of honor, filled the cup with champagne in the locker room ... and then Rustle burst in again: “Boys, dear, thank you very much!” He shook hands with each and with a cry of "I'll shake you up" again left. Upon arrival in Kyiv, the fans, in joy, literally carried their idols from the platform onto the bus. We were just about to leave when a man with a diplomat comes in and, without asking where the coach is, turns to everyone: “Guys, how many people played?” And take Serebrynikov and blurt out a joke for the sake of: "Twenty"! Maslov, not understanding anything, turned to him and only goggled his eyes. The man opened the diplomat, took out 20 envelopes and handed over: "Greetings from Pyotr Yefimovich." And there is none. Maslov to Serebryanikov: “You, such-and-such! Do you know that I am a communist? “We are all communists, but even communists need money!” According to Serebryannikov himself, the amount in the envelope was “normal”…

Denis BABARIN,
when preparing the material, materials from the book by M. Maksimov "They were the first" were used

Dossier "GOAL!"
Viktor Petrovich Serebrynikov
Born March 29, 1940.
Role: welterweight striker and midfielder.
Height: 173 cm.
Weight: 71 kg.
International Master of Sports (1966), Honored Master of Sports (1967). He started playing in Zaporozhye, in the youth team of Metallurg. The first coach is Nikolay Domoratsky.
In Metallurg (Z) - 1956-1959 (until July), Dynamo (K) - 1959 (from August) - 1971 (to June). In the championships of the USSR he played 299 matches, scored 70 goals. In European competitions - 14 matches, 4 goals (EC - 8, 2; COC - 6, 2). In the USSR national team (1964-1970) - 21 matches, 3 goals (first match for the national team: 11/10/1964 Vienna Austria 0: 1; last match for the national team: 10/6/1970 Mexico City Salvador 2: 0); Olympic team - (1963-64) - 5, 4.
Dynamo captain - 1970. USSR Olympic team captain - 1964. Titles and achievements: Champion of the USSR: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968.
The second prize-winner of the championships: 1960, 1965, 1969.
Winner of the USSR Cup: 1964, 1966. In "33": No. 1 - 1967, 1968, 1969; No. 2 - 1962, 1964; No. 3 - 1960, 1961, 1965. Semi-finalist of the World Cup-66 (2 matches), participant of the World Cup-70 (2), was a member of the USSR team at the World Cup-62.
Head coach "Frunzenets" (Sumy) - 1973, "Niva" (Podgaytsy, Ternop region) - 1977-78.

Recently, one of the best Dynamo players of the 60s, Viktor Serebryanikov, celebrated his 70th birthday. His free kicks - "Serebryanikov's arc" - caused more furor than Aliyev's blows now. Viktor Petrovich is an excellent storyteller, he remembers the events of 40-50 years ago in great detail.

In a conversation with the "Left Bank" Serebrynikov spoke frankly about Sabo and Byshovets, touched on the topic of match-fixing in Soviet football, the earnings of football players. If subsequent generations of Dynamo players noted the genius of Lobanovsky, then for Serebryanikov Viktor Maslov was an indisputable authority, under whose leadership the team won the Union championship three times in a row.

Why did Maslov withdraw Lobanovsky from the squad in the very first year at the helm of Dynamo?
We play in Yaroslavl. They led 2-0 but finished 2-2. Maslov was very offended. Gathered the whole team and let's sneeze one by one. I got to Lobanovsky, and he played as a winger. He asks: "Valera, what did you do on the field?" Valera got up, and he is so solid, and says: "You see, Viktor Alexandrovich, there are jewelers and laborers in the team." And Grandfather (Maslov’s nickname is “Left Bank”) took off his glasses, looked like that for a long time and said: “Valera, I will all be laborers, moreover, the performance should be jewelry.” And Maslov moved Lobanovsky.

In Kyiv, the noise rose. Shcherbitsky himself was for Lobanovsky. What Maslov does: journalist Arkady Galinsky wrote that Lobanovsky is a born center forward, and now Maslov puts him in this position in a match against Spartak's double. And Valera, on the other hand, always played as a left winger, he was used to the fact that no one attacked him from the left. And now he plays in the center - he will circle one opponent, and the second from the left side runs up and takes the ball away. And so time after time. And Maslov, so that they would not make noise at him, gathered the entire Politburo for that game. After that, Grandfather began to rebuild the team according to his vision. Little by little he moved Kanevsky, then Bazilevich, Voinov.

And Troyanovsky?
Valya was suitable for the game, but was listed as a violator of the regime. And when Lobanovsky was still on the team, Valya gave him every pass. Lobanovsky crushed him under him: "You just give me a pass." But it's also impossible. There were five of us attackers at that time - this "double-ve" scheme was called. And Maslov changed it. We began to play hard in the tackle, switched to a game of four midfielders. For a long time, the opponents could not understand who plays in defense and who plays in attack. There was interchangeability. Maslov insisted that everyone should both defend and attack. Now the leading clubs in the world play like this. He had a lot of great ideas in his head. Maslov graduated from the workers' faculty, but by nature he was a very intelligent person.

When he had already cleaned up the squad, Lobanovsky and Bazilevich arrived at the Dynamo training camp in Gagra. Viktor Alexandrovich received them, gave them his notes: "Read my thoughts, and then we'll talk." They were with us for two days. Grandfather coached them all, invested thoughts about the future of football. Lobanovsky, by the way, did not like to run, but, having become a coach, he demanded this from the players.

Were the players of your generation offended by money?
The players who played before us said: "Yes, if we were paid that kind of money, we would have gnawed at the bars." I answered: "For your time, you received good money, we - a little more, and those who come after us will have even more." And now the guys generally earn excellent money: for individual matches, you can raise $ 50 thousand.

When you were a player, did you have the 21st Volga?
Certainly. I'll hit her a little, trim her - and sell her. Demand exceeded supply, so it was possible to improve the financial situation. And the players had the opportunity to buy a new car out of turn. Vladimir Shcherbitsky - namely, he was the owner of the team - understood: if the players have the blessings of life, they will give all their best on the field.

I moved to Kyiv from Zaporozhye not the poorest person. "Volga" could immediately buy. But he was shy, he was still very young - I was 19 years old.

Did they pay so well in Zaporozhye?
More than in Kyiv. If not for the army, I would not have moved to Dynamo. Just one example. When the first secretary of the regional committee wanted Metallurg to move from class "B" to class "A", he set such bonuses for winning the decisive matches: the first match - a thousand, the second - two, the third - four, the fourth - eight. Crazy money. And we played mostly Muscovites, experienced guys, they knew perfectly well what class "A" was, what loads there were. What we did: we won the first four matches and lost the decisive matches. Not just like that, of course. So they weren't left out.

When Dynamo learned that Jozsef Szabo had bought Chaika, what was the reaction?
We learned about it when the car had already been taken away from him (they say, the players have become completely insolent. - "Left Bank") ... These are swindlers. He was always friendly with them. Businesslike, smart guys knew how to make money, where to invest. Maybe they helped him make money, but interfered with football ... He himself is illiterate, education - five classes, bought a certificate, went to college. I took an exam in organic chemistry with him in my 3rd year. A strict man accepted, and Jozsef could not "slip" in any way. The chemist closed us in the auditorium. He says: you - glucose, you - sucrose. And there are structural formulas, I'm sitting, taking pictures with my eyes. And Sabo comes up to the periodic table, makes a smart look (as he always does - either on the coaching bench, or speaking on television), says: "Vitya, I forgot how the water will be." I call, I say: "H2O". He looks, looks, and in the end: "And you don't know anything!"

Here I was already wound up, we switch to football, I remember the World Cup in England: “You were hooked, you seemed to be broken, and you arrived in Kiev, so you, you bastard, immediately became healthy. Why is it like that ... It was hard to play with the Germans” . And here he went out onto the field, began to jump like a ballerina. He was such a show-off in everything. I called him a Hutsul, he was offended.

Has anyone else in Dynamo disliked you?
Byshovets was a very dishonest guy. I considered myself the smartest. Always with such aplomb, as if he knows everything, knows everything. And he couldn't play football. He is at the expense of the guys - what a midfield we had! - was successful. This was a real whore. As a departure - he is sick. There you have to fight, fight, counterattack - but he does not run. I had to put Puzach. We bring glasses from the departure, and Grandfather says: “I can’t put Puzach, because Byshovets walks near the Central Committee and bows to everyone.”

He already climbed then ... Why did he leave for Moscow. Maslov called and ordered to put Byshovets. After all, the Central Committee did not understand the intricacies. And he ran the worst sections of 5 to 30 meters. Goalkeepers ran faster. Yes, when we play at home, we attack, in the turmoil at the gate he could work with his elbows, play ahead of the curve, and so ... And Maslov began to get him, and Byshovets began to go to the Central Committee.

Did you often have to play match-fixing in Dynamo?
It happened. For example, if the team won the championship in advance. Maslov, knowing that there would be a "kitchen", took and left for Moscow, ostensibly to the hospital. And we were already on the spot with the guys looking at the table and deciding who to give points to and who not. Or who will give more. But they divided the amount between everyone - players, doctors, masseurs, nannies. In 1967, we became the first in five rounds before the end of the championship. I remember Maslov wanted us to help Rostov, and we gave the game to Baku, they then went to the bronze for the first time, they came and asked.

Vladimir Bessonov once told a journalist: "I drank as much vodka as you have not eaten borscht in your life." You certainly have no less experience in this regard.
When time allowed, I also violated ... with pleasure. In 1961, I was chosen as the captain of the team, and this at the age of 21. I overloaded myself somewhere: training, great responsibility. Discharge was needed. Before going to bed, calming the nervous system is a sweet thing, it will not calm down on its own.

You have traveled a lot around the world. How did they perceive the standard of living in the Soviet Union after trips to Europe and America?
It was not I who said: a rich country and a poor people. In the 60s, the Chinese used to say that about us. Under the Union of the wife, the children of officials went to Mallorca to rest. And for what money? Khrushchev said: they overtook America in the production of milk and meat. Well, why are you lying? In Moscow, of course, everything was. And if you go to Ryazan, Vologda, Kursk, it's empty. When I started playing for Metallurg Zaporozhye, the elders asked us to be fed in the regional committee canteen, there was nothing to eat. And in Moscow they overtook America ...

Who in Dynamo was most afraid of flying?
Yes, everyone was afraid. And me too. I remember flying once to a tournament in South America. And the engine is on fire. And in the salon there were newlyweds, they went on a honeymoon trip. So they began to snatch each other's life jacket, although each passenger had his own. Panic is a terrible thing. I myself thought that our wing fell off, and the pilot simply turned off two engines - he could fly on the remaining two. Then I remembered that most often the one who is in the tail of the plane survives. I quickly run there, jumped into the toilet, closed it and sat. Everything came out of me from fear. Was completely empty. He left the shelter only when we landed at the American base in the Atlantic Ocean.

Viktor Serebrynikov. Player career

"Metallurg" (Zaporozhye): 1956-1959, "Dynamo" (Kyiv): 1959-1971. Champion of the USSR (1961, 1966, 1967, 1968), winner of the USSR Cup (1964, 1966). Participant of three world championships, semi-finalist of the 1966 World Cup. The best football player of Ukraine-1969. In the championships of the USSR he played 299 matches, scored 70 goals. In the USSR national team - 21 matches (3 goals).

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The famous Ukrainian footballer did not live a few months before his 75th birthday. The last, very frank, Viktor Petrovich gave Dmitry Gordon.

The five-time champion of the Soviet Union, two-time winner of the USSR Cup, a participant in three world championships (1962, 1966 and 1970) entered the history of not only the Soviet, but also the world as a master of free kicks, against which there was no salvation. They say that even the world famous, if not the greatest, goalkeeper was afraid of these strangely twisted balls, which invariably hit the goal. “The Arc of Serebryanikov” has long been a sports classic and a steady turnover, almost a term: this is how they call a win-win technique, the secret of which is 100 percent known only to the one who performed it.

Viktor Petrovich practiced his trademark strikes for two years, and, by his own admission, the idea of ​​the arc does not belong to him. Serebryanikov spied her in South America, where, as he said, they play as if they sing a song. I saw - and to master, and to bring to perfection I decided. I stopped only when I got a torn ligament and the doctors threatened: "We'll cut out the tendon - then you'll play...", but even two years of hard work on the intricate blow was enough for the rivals to start thinking how , if necessary, effectively build a wall, so jump out just to stop him from hammering ...

“At one time, in order to get into the USSR national team, you had to be a head taller than Muscovites,” a colleague of Viktor Petrovich, another legendary Dynamo player, once admitted, “and Serebryanikov was two heads taller!” Silver, as the football player was nicknamed by both teammates and devotees, was really a master of the highest class and devoted his whole life to his beloved work -. Having ended his stellar career in the 71st because of, he was engaged in coaching, went to play for the national teams of veterans, in a word, he categorically did not want to retire. “I thought they would take me out of the field,” Viktor Petrovich joked.

Before his 75th birthday, he did not live for some four months, and during this, which we, as it later turned out, recorded shortly before his death, Serebrynikov seriously convinced that if he was given at least a week to train, he was ready to show that there are no former football players. Even in spite of his bad health and advanced age.

Until the end of his days, he still watched football matches with interest - lively, gambling, almost fanatic - and very professionally, with a thorough knowledge of the matter, analyzed and analyzed them. He especially liked to watch, whom he considered to be a "real devil", although he stated that none of the players of the 20th and 21st centuries of the great, with whom Viktor Petrovich had a chance to meet on the field in Brazil, did not surpass. Serebrynikov did not have star disease and even the slightest hint of it - both in his youth and in his mature years he was known as an open, humorous and sociable guy. Sometimes even too sociable - so much so that it harmed him ...

Another signature feature of Viktor Petrovich is his straightforwardness: he was one of those who, without particularly choosing expressions, called things by their proper names - that's what he believed in, what he considered necessary, that's what he said. Openly, publicly, to the recorder and to the camera, not being afraid to be considered stupid, become objectionable or fall into the category of someone's blood enemies. Now you can argue with him as much as you like, or rather, with what he said, to argue: they say, yes, there was no such thing, idle fiction, nonsense, but each of us has the right to his own vision of a particular situation in which he directly found himself, has, on his truth, regardless of whether someone likes it or not, and why should Viktor Serebryanikov be deprived of such a right?

We talked for a very long time and, it seems, we touched on all possible football and near-football topics - we discussed the most star players and iconic coaches, their ups and downs, triumphs and fatal mistakes, which, if Viktor Petrovich is to be believed, were still in Soviet football on which the players earned a lot, the peculiarities of the domestic in comparison with the Western and overseas, awkward, unpleasant, and sometimes absolutely terrible, stalemate situations that our guys got into and from which they were forced to get out by hook or by crook ... I think I won’t be mistaken If I say that more frankly and more directly than Serebryanikov, none of the players of the former USSR has answered these questions yet.

To believe this or how to perceive the bike is up to you. As for me, the story of my interlocutor is absolutely amazing - just the same, with its everyday simplicity it captivates, captivates and draws in just because there are absolutely no idols on pedestals in it - there are ordinary living people to whom nothing human is alien and for whom the love of millions of fans became more of an ordeal than a reward. These are not positive mythical heroes - just people, with their weaknesses and vices. Yes, yes, the great ones also had them - but what, don’t you have? ..

- Viktor Petrovich, for me and for millions of fans you are an outstanding Soviet football player who brought fame for many years and five-time champion of the Soviet Union and two-time winner of the USSR Cup, and the first championship of Kiev in 1961 (God, so many years have passed!) Remember?

- Well, how - I remember very well: it was an amazing victory! Then the coach Solovyov gathered young guys from all over Ukraine, and there was a lot of competition: everyone dreamed of getting into the main team, so they tried, training was serious, two times a day - before that there were no two times a day.

- Previously, how much and how you wanted, and trained, right?

- Well, yes, the old fashioned way, but Solovyov started in a new way - an interesting coach, peculiar.

Was he a Muscovite?

- Muscovite - hard, sometimes even cruel. Well, in what sense? After playing by car, he began to go round the apartments, to see who, what, and then held meetings, made scandals, and took money. Well, it doesn't really matter - we were young, we wanted to play.

- Good players in the team then gathered?

- Very! Talented!

- Who stood out?

- Well, who ... Solovyov brought me as a left winger, but there was no place for me in Zaporozhye - the aces played there. The conditions in Zaporozhye were good, the money was big, and the players arrived as needed. They moved me to the left edge, and my left is someone else's (laughs), and it turned out that I could not stand the competition there ...

- Right!

- You know, I talked about Maslov with many of your teammates, and everyone is unanimous: a unique, past, by the way, front, a nugget, a person who did not have any extensive, voluminous knowledge, but knew and understood psychology in such a way .. .

- ...really a great psychologist! ...

- ... so each kid individually felt that thanks to this, his team achieved great success ...

“I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t understand him right away either, but he didn’t start this coup, the whole restructuring, for nothing. It all started in Yaroslavl - all of us went on the attack: both defenders and midfielders, and we got nonsense, but he is a great tactician. We were leading 2:0 in Yaroslavl, and then it was already 2:2 - my grandfather freaked out, he gathered a team - and how he started! From the goalkeeper to the striker sneezed ...

- ... stuffed everyone ...

- ...to each! “Serebryanikov, get up. What you scored is good, but the fact that you don’t play defense ... You only attack, you all attack - Kanevsky, Bazilevich, Troyanovsky ... ". He reached Lobanovsky and asked: "Valera, what did you do on the field?" Well, Loban is a literate guy, he decided to sit Grandfather. "You understand," he said, "there are jewelers and laborers in the team..." Grandfather took off his glasses: "So, listen, Valera, all my laborers will be."

It was he who signed the verdict...

- Well, here is Arkady Galinsky - remember, a journalist? He was talented, but he wrote some nonsense that all wives are restored in a day, and Valera has such a wife that he can already play in 12 hours. “If you arrive in Kiev, ask any taxi driver, and he will tell you where Lobanovsky lives”, “Lobanovsky is a born center forward, and they put him on the left” - and so on in the same vein. Well, why is this? In general, they grappled - Maslov with Galinsky - things came to a scandal. After all, Galinsky managed to convince all the authorities that Grandfather Loban was not giving a move, destroying his talent, and now "" he arrives - and Maslov Lobanovsky puts the center forward.

- But he couldn’t play in the center ...

- Naturally. He is used to the left extreme - to the fact that he does not have a person on the left, there is also a brow. The ball, in short, takes it, wants to lead, but they run in from the left and take it away. The entire leadership of the republic, headed by Shcherbitsky, came to the match ...

- ... and Maslov taught such a lesson ...

- Well, yes - they demanded from him that Lobanovsky bet, and Grandfather decided: well, look at which center forward he is. In addition, Maslov put boys from the reserve under him - a little clumsy, and the leadership understood everything, Shcherbitsky said: "Yes, Viktor Alexandrovich, something is not working out for him."

- Maslov, in fact, what was good about? Knowledge of psychology - once, understanding - two, and what else was there that after years makes you talk about it?

- He was very abusive, tough - he barks at you like the last dog! You know that you have been guilty, - so he skins you, but he does not punish: he never punished a single person - so that to withdraw money, something else ...

The purge started when we lost the match for the USSR Cup in Novosibirsk. We arrived there in May, we thought it was good, it was cool, but there the heat was 30 degrees, my God! At first we led 1-0 - I scored from a corner ... It was a funny ball - funny balls happen ... At the World Cup, the Chileans beat us like that - Netto was standing at the near post, Yashin shouted to him: "Play!", and he heard : "I'm playing!". Such nuances happen often even for big teams, but here I look – we don’t have one defender. It was Kolya Koltsov who left the field - something hit him in the head from the heat.

— Yes you that?!

- Yes, he left, and then Sabo made a mischief - he was kicked out. In general, we lost 2:1, and the scandal broke out - Novosibirsk is not even Moscow ... Maslov was very angry, and from that moment perestroika began: showdowns began, scandals ...

Usually, after all, it’s like: we get on the train - we talk ... This is if we won, and if, God forbid, we lost, Maslov would not catch a single one, everyone was hiding where! We don’t go to the restaurant, because they will find it there, to the buffet too - we took everything with us and dispersed around the car, because it was very noisy. He did not like to lose, and somehow he charged us with this - that it was impossible to give in no matter what.

When he had already cleaned up the team, we wanted to kick him out, to protest, but we got together, sat down, thought ... Well, what other coach do we need? Well, let him swear - he does not punish anyone. He goes to the owner, knocks out money, does not give offense to us. We came to the match in Minsk, talked... In general, the Minskers made it 4:1 - at their home. Grandfather got up: "Well, you got a game" - and we began to work. We went to Kuibyshev - we beat Wings, won two matches in Kyiv, then in Tashkent, in Alma-Ata ...

After another victory in the compartment, we sit down, brandy - we can already be together. They drank a glass each - and I came in from a distance: "Vik Sanych, you said that you fought ...". He treated me well - like a son ... He sits, looks and begins to tell: "You know, guys, I'm a real patriot. I joined the militia, although I worked at an automobile plant ...".

- Likhachev's name?

- Well, yes, a turner - I called him a "turner-baker". "So what did they give you? - I ask. - What kind of machine gun? Or a machine gun?", And how he curses! They gave him a stick, made for a gun! “And what,” I asked a question, “all the militias went into battle with sticks?” - "The lieutenant with a pistol - shot up. We were ordered to take the height, and we ran ...

- ... with sticks ...

- Banged (snaps himself on the neck) - the sea is knee-deep, everyone is running, and so am I. People are falling, I’m screaming something ... ", and then he told how the mine exploded and wounded him in the fifth point with a shrapnel. "I, - he recalled, - closed my eyes, I thought I was dying. - "Good wound, - I joked, “what’s next?” And then a young girl crawled up – well, a nurse, how many of them were killed then, horror. ", but the wound is interesting - you can’t bandage it there, you can’t do anything, it’s bleeding: he’s drunk. Why did so many people die in the war? You understand ...

- Because of the degrees, the blood did not stop ...

- Yes, that's right. "And so," continued Maslov, "she dragged me. I helped her, of course, I tried: she's so small, pulling me ...". In general, they crawled, the fragment was taken out, and then Maslov, like a wounded man, Likhachev again took to the factory and immediately appointed him to some position (an 18-year-old boy: there were no men - only women). The evacuation of the plant was underway, in Moscow only those workshops where "" they did, remained, otherwise everything was in, and now our Grandfather evacuated this plant. He just got off the train and ran, chose a clearing for a new shop, the women barely pulled out the machines ... He said that he had found a place where the shop could be built - it was in winter, and then spring came, and it turned out that it was a swamp!

- Nightmare!

- And here Likhachev saved him from death. Ma-slo-vu, the execution of the luminaries ...

- ...for alleged sabotage?

- Well, yes, and that one had a direct connection with Stalin ...

- Admit it, why did you put a snake under the covers under Viktor Sanych?

- He did not put my friend Khmelnitsky in the match, but for him not to play was like death. Vik Sanych had already begun to use Blokhin, he saw that Khmel was not running, but the speed had already begun, and Byshovets did not run. Both attackers without speed - due to courage, technicality, they managed to hold on ...

- ... did Puzach run away?

- Tolya - yes, we worked well with him in the counterattack. He overcame 30 meters faster than anyone in the team, for this the most important thing.

I remember I arrived at the base by car ...

- By the way, you are the only one, in my opinion, in "", it was allowed to drive to the base in a car ...

— Yes, Grandfather allowed. I said: "The legs hurt, it's hard to walk ..." (laughs). He was already silent. Well, I arrived, I went into the room - I was a little late, now the training will begin, and Hop is not himself. I ask: "Vital, what is it? Is there something at home?" - "No, Vik Sanych came in and told me to rest this game," and this is a blow for him, tetanus, almost crying! Me: "Nothing, we'll figure it out for him ...". I myself, who he really didn’t understand, showed me that he had yellow spots ...

- And in Koncha-Zaspa there were a lot of snakes?

- Well, yes - in the same place Kozinka floods, floods the meadows, the water stays for a long time, and when it descends, a swamp forms, and there are snakes, snakes ... I asked Khmel: "Come with me so that I don't catch a biting snake. Do you know? ". - "I know". Well, I grabbed him, put him in my bosom... You have to carry him through somehow, but he is cold, tossing and turning... I brought him, hid him under my blanket, but he no longer crawls - he curled up and sleeps. Grandfather makes a detour: he enters the rooms, looks to see if everything is in place, then leaves, closes the doors with a key and even props up with a stick (smiles), and I, while he was walking around other rooms, went to him, put him in bed, with a blanket covered, returned to and lay down.

I lie and think: "What have I done? He's afraid of all these creeps, even goosebumps, he has a weak heart!" Because of a friend, I went to such a terrible thing ... I hear: Grandfather is returning to, knocking with a stick, and his number is from ours across the room ... A couple of minutes pass - and, you know, how a hungry lion wakes up? Grandfather did the same - ka-a-a-k growled! (Laughs). Everyone from the rooms, despite the locks, jumped out, but Khmel and I remained - well, he guessed ... He flies towards us with this iron-headed dungeon ... Me: "Hop, we're turning over!". They covered their heads with pillows, and put their asses out, wrapping them in blankets, so that at least hit the fifth point, not on the head ...

- Got it?

- Through the blanket, as if he had been banged - as if that blanket did not exist! I also added. "I," he said, "understood whose work it was." - "Vik Sanych," I groaned, "I won't be able to play now: you beat off all my back muscles!" - "Do you have muscles on the fifth point, or what?". The guys look in: "Why are you beating your son? Who will play?" Maslov beat me up and threw me: "You will come to me." I came in. “What are you doing?” Grandfather asked. “Let your Khmelnitsky play, he will - go tell him. Well, to hell with you, otherwise you will bring me some kind of Serpent Gorynych with three heads, but if you can’t do it, you answer! ".

- Did you do it?

- Yeees! Just scored from a corner.

- Was your team great in the early 60s?

- Unprofessional.

— Yes you that?!

- The young people didn’t understand how to reorganize in the game - everything was done according to the thumb, according to the ribbon ...

— And under Maslov?

- Well, there were already professionals. In 1965, having won the second place and the Cup, we began to understand everything.

- So the team was great?

- And the men got real?

— Warriors! They no longer whined - Maslov weaned everyone. Hurt? No "pain" - you are silent, and that's it.

- Half a century has already passed, you haven't played for a long time, and the term "Serebryanikov's arc" is still alive among fans and connoisseurs. What is it and what is its essence?

- Well, in this (snaps his fingers on the neck and laughs).

- I see, but how did you launch the ball, that it fell right into the goal?

- This came about at the suggestion of Galinsky - at first he wrote a "oblique strike" when I circled the wall ...

— ... an unfortunate term ...

- Well, could you write "wall contour"? When I was in South America...

- ... peeped?

- I saw it there. The Chilean Toro scored against the Brazilians in this way at the World Cup - he just beat through the wall. I looked and thought: "Here's an asshole! Why didn't I guess before?". Arrived and started working.

- What are the specifics? The field is flat, the ball is round - what did you do with this ball?

- You, like Maslov, ask - he, too, though a professional, thought that this was all by chance, and then I "" scored in the 69th at the last minute ... we won 1:0 - this is how many years he has not came up to me, didn't ask... We arrived in Donetsk - in the 10th minute they give a free kick to the " " side. I put the ball at the same point, stand, look at the goalkeeper and think: “Yeah, you already know where to jump, and even if you didn’t see the match with“ “, Oshenkov told you, so I’ll hit where you are standing. They put up a wall, it's hard for him, he's nervous, he looks out... He pulled already, and I'm just starting to beat - just to where he stood a second ago. Goal! I stand and laugh: "What an educated goalkeeper!" - He: "This is Oshenkov ...". - "Good, good, I assumed that it was he who enlightened you, do not be offended!" - What is there to be offended about?

- How did you do it and what is the secret of your trademark strike?

- Well, here, firstly, a little bit of physics: I put the ball down with a nipple. There is more gravity there, and when it flies, this gravity presses - the ball falls sharply, you understand?

- There was almost no backswing, right?

No, he was...

- Strong?

- Small: a step back - and that's it, a sharp blow. I hit a little sideways from below to make the ball spin, you understand? When the "miners" arrived in Kyiv, at our base, Grandfather said: "Let's go." I: "Where, Vik Sanych? I won't go to the meadow for snakes, that's enough." He asked: "Show me, Vitya, what you are doing, otherwise I look and want to ask all the time, but it's inconvenient - I have been in football for so many years ...". - “Well, why?” I objected. “You were in South America, you saw how they twist it ... You yourself say: “Only give a pass with your cheek, only with your cheek, and while you put the cheek, while you turn it around ... Time passes - even though it’s a fraction of a second, but everything is important, but here you have to play in any place, the entire ankle must work. "Well, you need to work it out ...

- I, Viktor Petrovich, asked many great football players: "When you hit, do you know for sure that the ball will go to this point?" Basically, everyone answered: "Well, how? Approximately. It seems like it should get there." Did you, too, or did you still know where the ball would end up?

- You mean with a punch? Not from a free kick?

- Yes, with a blow ...

- No, only the corner knew where he was hitting.

- And from a free kick?

- I knew the point there, yes.

Is this a multi-year work?

- I worked for three years, then I quit - my right leg flew, ligaments. In my opinion, even under Solovyov, he “scored” the Moscow one, “”, or someone else - and the ligaments were covered. Zoya Mironova was like that ...

- ... a famous sports doctor ...

- ... professor - I came to her, showed my leg. “You have a tear,” she said, “and when you tear it, Vitya, I will cut it out for you with pleasure ...”. — "What will you cut out?" I asked. A legendary doctor, she was a nurse during the war, pulled out a lot of people, wounded herself, and after the war they took her to a medical institute without exams. Good woman...

- You and your teammates had deafening fame, you were a truly national hero, but how did you perceive it?

- Glory is good, but it is very difficult to keep it. I'm used to it, although there have been downturns - any player, no matter what he is, has gone through this. I had a recession in the 61st year, even in the 60th, happened. I was elected captain of the team by secret ballot, and I stood up and said to Solovyov: “Vyacheslav Dmitrievich, you will excuse me, but which one of me is the captain - what should I say to Voinov, or Makarov, or someone else from the elders? Yes, me first send, and then have a bite - I'm the youngest ... ". He: "No, no, come on!" - highly respected. I remember we arrived in Chisinau - we beat the hosts, went to Tashkent, and there it was hot, three in the afternoon, the game didn’t go ... I knew why I had a recession - young, inexperienced, thought that I had the strength enough for everything, but it turned out not. If a professional, he must first of all know himself how to recover, and I got a little spoiled. In Tashkent, we lost 1:0 - and it started: from there we immediately come to Alma-Ata ...

“…It’s hot too…”

- True, they settled us in the Dynamo rest house, and there are ditches, a small oasis, so it was cooler. Solovyov called me every day - he hammers and hammers. I sent him, he grabbed an ashtray, I ran away ... It flew right near my head, damaged the door - if it had hit my head, I would have pierced it for sure.

- Here are the coaches: one threw an ashtray, the second beat with a stick ...

- Well, everyone has nerves, and, in general, I left ...

— ...of the captains?

- No, from a rest home, relieve stress. There are a lot of beautiful girls in Alma-Ata (a mixture of some kind of Kazakhs and Russians or Ukrainians), I met, a drunk came, and the coach was waiting for me - I realized that I went too far. He saw that I was drunk: "Come on in. What, offended?" - "So they wanted to kill - how not to be offended? I'm probably happy." Well, I drank, I flaunt, I'm not afraid of anything ... "Okay. I removed you from the captains - get ready for the game."

They didn’t put me in Alma-Ata: our doctor, Dorofeev, a boxer, master of sports, realized that something was wrong with me. I took him to the dispensary, they did a cardiogram - it turned out that he was completely overtired. He was in shock: "Vitya, what are you?".

“Girls just don’t lead to good things ...

- Well, of course: after the game - another load, and then, there are no iron ones ...

To be continued...