Bessonov, Vladimir Vasilievich Midfielder Master of Sports of the USSR of international class (1977). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1986).
Pupil of the Kharkov football school No. 7, Kharkov sports boarding school. The first coach is Mikhail Nasedkin.
Played for Metalist Kharkiv (1975), Dynamo Kyiv (1976 - 1990), Maccabi Haifa, Israel (1990 - 1991).
Champion of the USSR 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990 USSR Cup Winner 1978, 1985, 1987, 1990 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986
Played 79 matches for the USSR national team, scored 4 goals.
(He played 6 matches for the USSR Olympic team, scored 1 goal. * )
Vice-champion of Europe in 1988. Participant of the world championships in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Bronze medalist at the 1980 Olympics
Champion of Europe among youths in 1976. World champion among youth teams in 1977 (he was recognized as the best player in the championship).
Head coach of SKA Kyiv (1993). Head coach of the club "Borisfen" Kyiv (1994). Head coach of CSKA Kyiv (1997 - 2000, 2001). Head coach of the national team of Turkmenistan (2002 - 2003). Head coach of the club "Niva" Vinnitsa (2004 - 2005). Head coach of the club "Dawn" Lugansk (2006). Head coach of the club "Kharkiv" Kharkov (2006 - 2008). Head coach of the club "Dnepr" Dnepropetrovsk (2008 - 2010).
THE PLAYER WHO CAN LITERALLY EVERYTHING
He has been in the public eye in football since childhood, since when he still lived in Kharkiv. In the youth national team of the country, Volodya was already distinguished by high technique, and amazing performance, and constant focus on the opponents' goal, and the ability to fight to the end. The last, perhaps, his most valuable quality ... At the age of 17, he became the world champion among youths.
What has he achieved lately? Much. In my opinion, Bessonov personifies the modern type of football player who can play in any position and in any arrangement. Moreover, I would even call him one of our first football players of the future, meaning football in which all players can do literally everything that this game consists of on the field. He not only now knows how to do everything, but also continues this ability to polish. He is only 23 years old, and he has not yet fully revealed his playing potential. I have no doubt that Bessonov will play more and more effectively over the years, because he fully possesses such an important quality as the ability to quickly perceive everything new. Volodya catches any tactical tasks instantly, as he can immediately mentally recreate the image of the actions entrusted to him. It is very difficult and not given to everyone. And further. He is one of the few players in our team who makes the most of the entire space of the field for the game.
Bessonov is still scoring fewer goals than he could and than others do. In every game he works selflessly, does everything that the team needs, but I would like him to show his individual qualities more often during a direct attack on the opponents' goal.
This is how the coach of both teams Valery Lobanovsky described Vladimir Bessonov, the captain of Dynamo Kyiv, midfielder of this club and the USSR national team.
The characteristic, as we see, is quite complete, but purely sporty.
Well, what kind of person is Vladimir Bessonov? I will give a few statements about him by his own teammates, deliberately not naming them, because I realized that they express the opinion of the entire team.
"Despite his youth, Bessonov has been the captain of the team for two years now. Why? It's simple: he knows how to find a common language with people. Very different. He knows how, if necessary, to give in, but he knows how to demand when necessary."
“The interests of the team are everything for him. Sometimes the team is given a task for a particular match, which does not allow him to personally show off his skills to the fullest. For a football player, especially a young one, this is always unpleasant and difficult. But not for Bessonov.”
"Very kind by nature, sympathetic and sincerely generous. Always comes to the aid of a friend, especially a beginner ..."
“It’s interesting to watch him at meetings. In fact, he is laconic, but when a “hot question” arises, he always speaks and knows how to clearly put everything on the shelves. They always listen to what he says. And not only because he was delegate to the 18th Congress of the Komsomol, although this in itself speaks volumes.
"An extremely diligent student. That's who the teachers of the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education never have trouble with."
Well, it turns out that Vladimir Bessonov is a man without flaws? Of course not. But they involuntarily retreat into the shadows under the pressure of those undeniable high human virtues that this young and already famous athlete is endowed with. Virtues that are given not only by nature ...
G. BORISOV
Newspaper "Soviet sport", 06.02.1982
FAVORITE WOMEN OF VLADIMIR BESSONOV
In this cozy Kyiv apartment on holidays (and not only) it smells of flowers. The owner of the house knows well the tastes of his beloved women: he gives roses to his wife, and tulips to his daughter.
STANDARD OF A SPORTS FAMILY
Marriages are said to be made in heaven. Well, stellar marriages - even more so. The famous football player of Dynamo Kiev and the USSR national team Vladimir Bessonov and the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Victoria Bessonova (who is remembered by experts in this sport under her maiden name Serykh) have been together for 18 years. At the same time, the father and mother of the Bessonovs raised not one, but two whole "I": daughter, "artist" Anya and son, tennis player Sasha. It is almost impossible to catch them all together at home. We are still, consider ourselves lucky: when we came to visit the Bessonovs, the family was three-quarters complete. Only 17-year-old Sasha was absent. As it turned out, he is in Barcelona, at the tennis academy of Luis Brugueira, the father and coach of the famous Spanish player Sergi Brugueira.
FOOTBALL AND GYMNASTIC NOVEL
- For some reason, football-gymnastic marriages have always been popular in Dynamo Kiev. Blokhin - Deryugina, Buryak - Vasyur, Bessonov - Gray, Berezhnoy - Yevtushenko, Khlus - Zakharova ... Here you are, for example, where and when did you meet?
VLADIMIR: We were officially introduced to each other at Oleg Blokhin's wedding in December 1980. They were next to the table. Although I first saw Vika when she was 12 years old. And such is the backstory. At the Dynamo training base, my roommate was Alexander Khapsalis, and his wife worked as a choreographer for Albina Nikolaevna Deriugina. When Hapsalis went to meet his wife after training, I often kept him company. Naturally, entering the hall, he did not close his eyes. Hapsalis once again told me, pointing to Vika: "Look, what a pretty girl."
VICTORIA: They had such a hobby - to spy on us (laughs). Especially at the base in Novogorsk, when the terms of the training camp of the USSR football team coincided with ours. In my opinion, most football and gymnastic novels began there.
How much time has passed from the day you "officially" met at someone else's wedding to your own wedding?
VLADIMIR: A year and four months - we signed in April 1982. Vika then lived with her parents in Fastov, and studied at the Kiev sports boarding school. Every day by train there and back - almost two and a half hours. I walked her home if time allowed. But much more often I had to mentally praise the inventor of the telephone.
Were the children brought up strictly? VLADIMIR: In the sense of a belt on the ass? Never. I saw them infrequently: all the time - either training camp, then matches, then Dynamo, then the national team.
VICTORIA: When Vladimir was still playing, I took the children and went with them even to the understudy matches that took place in Kyiv. Because for such games in Dynamo, players of the main squad were also brought without fail. And we had two whole hours to see dad, take a walk with him in the park.
Probably the biggest problem in life that arises in a family like yours is constant separation?
VICTORIA: What's true is true. Of the 18 years we've been married, I'm afraid we haven't spent half that time together. We especially don’t like winter with our children: our dad at this time is at an endless training camp - first as a football player, now as a coach. Before, when I saw kids with their fathers somewhere at the rink, I had tears of envy in my eyes.
VLADIMIR: In our hallway, someone's sports bag is always ready: either mine, or Anin, or Sashin. Yes, and Vika does not stay at home - she often goes to competitions as a leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine.
SCARS DECORATE A MAN
- Vladimir Bessonov remained in the memory of millions of fans as an outstanding footballer, winner of numerous titles and ... the bearer of one not very pleasant nickname - Trauma Man. Has the last circumstance somehow complicated your family life?
VICTORIA: Perhaps my judgment will seem paradoxical, but for some reason I am sure that the football hardships that fell to my husband at one time objectively contributed to strengthening the family. Firstly, almost all of Volodya's injuries were the result of his athletic nature - strong-willed and uncompromising. On the field, he behaved like a real man, always climbed into the thick of it, never removed his leg, as, according to my observations, many other football players did. Well, how not to love such a man? And secondly, when once again he, "wounded", found himself at home on crutches, I, like a perfect egoist, even quietly rejoiced: well, finally, we'll stay together longer! I remember that the first operation for his meniscus coincided with the period when our Sasha was just starting to walk. And Volodya amusingly hobbled around the apartment with his son - he worked out his sore leg. Well, I really suffered from fear when he was once brought home with such a massive corset around his neck. The consequences of a fracture of the cervical vertebra could be the saddest, up to paralysis. It worked out, thank God.
VLADIMIR: Well, why only God - and Vika too. We can say that with me my wife found a new profession - a nurse. Even if it sounds trite, but thanks to the super-reliable rear that the family turned out to be, I played for 15 years in Dynamo Kiev, was the champion of the Union six times, held the Cup of Cups in my hands, participated in three world championships. So it’s a sin for me to complain about my fate, despite all the hardships experienced.
MOM DREAMED TO SEE ANIA ON THE BALLET STAGE
There was no doubt that the daughter should follow her mother's path?
VICTORIA: To be honest, at first I saw Anya on the ballet stage, and not on the gymnastic carpet. She started dancing at the age of three, and we took her to the choreographic studio of the usual House of Culture. Then Anya got into the children's ensemble "Kiyanochka", and it seemed to me that her fate was predetermined. But at the age of 7, she suddenly changed her mind and decided to become a gymnast. To object to this, you know, it was difficult.
Is it too late to start at 7?
VICTORIA: By today's standards, of course, it's a bit late. But Anya already had good choreographic training, which made her prospects in sports real. I brought her to Albina Nikolaevna, she said that there is no group of this age at her school now. And she suggested: "Dial such a group yourself, look for a hall - and go ahead." Which is what I did. We can say that for the sake of Ani she returned to the gym as a coach. And three years ago she transferred her daughter to the Deryugins' school - Galina Beloglazova, a former absolute world champion, began working with her there.
WHO IS THE MAIN HOUSE?
It is generally accepted that two self-sufficient and strong personalities sometimes cannot get along together. In particular, the recent breakup of the Blokhin-Deryugin star couple is explained by many precisely by this. And how is the problem of the leader in your family solved?
VICTORIA: Definitely, once and for all: the head of the house is Vladimir.
VLADIMIR: I beg you: do not delete these words from the interview for anything. I'll cut them out of the newspaper and hang them on the front door. No, better in the living room in the most visible place (laughs).
What can cause a quarrel between you?
VICTORIA: Husband's silence. He comes home from work, burrows into the newspapers and is silent. This irritates me terribly, I want to talk.
VLADIMIR: Yes, I already yelled so hard at two training sessions that I have no strength
Who then takes the first step towards a truce?
VLADIMIR: Well, in this regard, we are both "leaders", God forbid! Stubborn to the point of impossibility. However, any of our quarrels resolves by itself at exactly 6.45. At this time, the alarm clock rings in the house, which means: life goes on. By 7.30 you need to take Anya to the gym for a warm-up, then Vika to work and go to training yourself. There is no time to pout at each other.
Unable to escape on vacation with the whole family?
VICTORIA: The last time the four of us had a rest was five years ago. And even then not for long and not far - on the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov in Berdyansk. This summer, Anya and I escaped to Alushta for four days. We guessed for the tennis tournament in which Sasha played, and drove off. But they still didn’t lie on the beach, but actively rested with their daughter: crosses ran, swam, cheered for Sasha. That's all our family vacation.
VLADIMIR: By the way, I have a funny story connected with Alushta. In my football years, Dynamo Kyiv often held training camps there. And somehow, in the summer, we were lying with the whole team after a workout on the beach, I overcame in the sun. And I hear Lobanovsky's voice through my sleep: "You turn him over more often, otherwise redheads, you can believe me, do not sunbathe, but immediately burn out in the sun." After all, Lobanovsky and I are both red-haired.
In a family where there are two gymnasts at once, it may not be very appropriate to start talking about gluttony. However, the presence of two more healthy men in the house makes the culinary theme still quite relevant.
VLADIMIR: I don’t think so, because I don’t consider myself a gourmet, and Sasha, too, when he is at home, is quite satisfied with convenience foods. And there are a lot of them in stores now.
VICTORIA: Which one of us really has to suffer from "malnutrition" is Anya. Ice cream, sweets, cake - none of this is impossible. And when they forbid, I especially want to - I went through it myself. Then, when everything is possible, such a desire will no longer exist.
DAD IS OFFENDED AT THE JUDGES. BUT NOT ON FOOTBALL
VICTORIA: No, I don't risk it. My understanding of football is still at the fan level. Although this game is much simpler and more intelligible for perception than our sport. There are more specifics in football: scored a goal - won, missed - lost. Like two times two is four.
And you, Vladimir, can you argue about rhythmic gymnastics with the leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine Victoria Bessonova?
VLADIMIR: Yes. Consider me a professor in this sport. However, I don’t like to argue with anyone in principle, I prefer to always stick to my own opinion. True, for some reason it almost never coincides with the judges' assessments. Look: all the girls seem to be doing the same thing with these ribbons, hoops, balls and maces, but the grades are so different. It is especially insulting when the daughter gets few points.
What sports achievements of 15-year-old Anya can be considered the most significant?
VICTORIA: Bronze medal at the last World Championships in Japan in the team of senior gymnasts. Silver of the World Cup-97 in the all-around among juniors. And, probably, the third place among juniors in the all-around at the World Youth Games in Moscow, where Anya won five more medals in separate exercises.
FOOTBALL GENES REMAIN UNCALLED
If the daughter's sports choice was influenced by her mother's example, then it would be logical to assume that the son would inherit the dad's football genes. Why didn't this happen?
VLADIMIR: Sasha did not escape football temptations, he studied at the Dynamo school until the age of 13. But one day I awkwardly fell in the gym, got a severe concussion, which we treated for two months. Doctors advised to give him to some other sport, less traumatic. Well, he did not immediately agree with chess, but he fell in love with tennis at first sight. He became a racket fan and completely painlessly, to our joy with Vika, parted with a soccer ball. Of course, he went to the court a little late and is now trying to make up for lost time. In the classification of 17-year-olds, it ranks 8th in Ukraine.
By the way, the sons of Sergei Bubka also sometimes train in Barcelona at the Brugueira Tennis Academy.
VICTORIA: I heard about it, but our paths didn't cross there. True, I can’t apply for the role of a tennis mother, like Lilia Bubka. Otherwise, I would have to be torn between Anina's rhythmic gymnastics, which, of course, is closer to me, and Sasha's tennis. But in this case, we have a tennis grandfather who takes care of his grandson on all trips. After all, I also grew up in a sports family: my father and mother, masters of sports, were quite famous road cyclists in Ukraine. However, I never learned how to ride a bike.
VLADIMIR: In February I was with the team at a training camp in Spain - I managed to see my son there at the same time. She says she misses home. But what to do - such is the sporting life.
For football coach Volodymyr Bessonov, a hot time is now coming: the Ukrainian championship is about to resume, and his CSKA is hard at work preparing. But even earlier - from March 10 to March 12 - a serious exam awaits Anya Bessonova: the traditional international gymnastic tournament "Deriugins Cup" will be held in Kyiv. Despite being over-employed, dad will probably try to escape for an hour or two to the Sports Palace to cheer on his daughter. It is possible that he will need tulips again.
Yuri YURIS
Newspaper "Sport-Express", 09.03.2000
I WOULD LIKE TO WIN MANY TOURNAMENTS WITH THE TEAM OF TURKMENISTAN
For several months, the country's main team remained without their mentor. As usual in such cases, there was no shortage of forecasts for a vacant position.
Only the main prediction was confirmed: the national team was headed by an outside specialist, widely known in the world of football. We are talking about the famous player of Kyiv "Dynamo", the legendary team of the 70-80s. Vladimir Bessonov, who became the head coach of the national team of Turkmenistan.
We met with Bessonov in the office of FC Nisa, where his office is located, and before the daily meeting of the coaching staff of the national team began, we talked, of course, about football, about the plans of the national team, remembered the past.
Vladimir Vasilyevich, how did you get into football?
I was born in Kharkiv, a city of glorious football traditions, and, unlike Odessa wits, I can safely say that football was born in Kharkiv in general, it is so loved in this city. The names of Ugraitsky, Krotov, the Fomin brothers, Privalov are the pride of Kharkov football. He lived near KhTZ, next to the stadium and, of course, spent all his free time on the street with the ball. It was on the street that my path to football began. Then he studied with coaches Panov, Nasedkin.
Soon he received an invitation to a sports boarding school in Kyiv. Yes, I can also say that as boys we did not focus only on football. Ice hockey was popular in winter. But football was out of competition! In general, I am inclined to believe that the system for selecting and training young players in our country has been debugged. Young football players went through all stages of selection - street, sports school, boarding school, national teams of various levels, double, the basis of the team of masters. And it is right!
When were you invited to Dynamo Kiev?
Mikhail Mikhailovich Koman invited me to the Dynamo team in 1975. And, if you remember, "Dynamo" 75 is Blokhin, Troshkin, Fomenko, Reshko, Muntean... What to call next? Then Hapsalis, Berezhnoy, Baltacha came to the team. This is how we fell under the vigilant eye of Valery Vasilyevich Lobanovsky, God rest his soul, for which I can only thank fate!
Yes, as I understand it, it is impossible to forget ... Were you very worried?
You know, there was no feeling of fear, a little timidity, well, and excitement. And, to be honest, there was no time for emotions, there was work, work up to a sweat, and we, along with the "old men", "plowed". I even remember how Hapsalis, Berezhny and I were given an apartment - a room each in a three-room apartment. And they didn’t grumble, and it wasn’t in their thoughts to go somewhere, to demand something ... I remember that my debut took place in 1976 in Kyiv, we hosted Dynamo Moscow and lost 0:1.
In short, what does Dynamo Kiev mean to you?
It doesn't work that way, in a nutshell... Dynamo for me is also a school, I mean not only football, these are universities, again, not only football ones. It is, if you will, a window into a greater life, the world. These are the brightest pages of my football biography, but I have something to remember. This is the 1973 European Championship and we are the champions! And what kind of guys were nearby - Khidiyatullin, Kaplun, Bondar, Hapsalis ... Or 1977 - we are world champions among young teams, Sergei Mikhailovich Mosyagin led us to victory. Do not take it for boasting, but I was awarded the title of the best player in the championship and I was awarded the "Golden Ball"! In 1977, for the first time in Kyiv "Dynamo" I became the champion of the CCCP! Is it possible to forget the first invitation to the CCCP team? It was in 1977, Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan invited me...
In 1985-86 the people of Kiev gave a series of unbeaten matches, 45 games we did not know defeat! And the final of the Cup Winners' Cup in France: we beat the Spanish Atlético Madrid 3:0 in all respects...
And, of course, this is a brilliant galaxy of players that went down in the memory of the fans for the rest of their lives. And what! - Blokhin, Onishchenko, Kolotov, Veremeev, Fomenko, Baltacha, Troshkin, Berezhnoy, Belanov...
What do you see as the secret or reasons for such brilliant victories?
I am convinced, first of all, work, work and once again work. And, of course, this is the coaching genius of Lobanovsky, he knew everything, saw everything, knew how to set the guys up for big victories. He infected us with some special ambition. After all, to be honest, we were all young people, and we wanted to go for a walk, but there were many temptations, but we managed to subordinate ourselves to football, we lived by football ... Let me give an example, Lobanovsky tells us: "We will play this season on fatigue." Can you imagine? Someone objects, they say, I would like to be at ease. Vasilich replies: "Well, who will explain to us, what is lightness?" That's it, no more questions.
Then add a wonderful selection, because Dynamo got the best of the best from all over Ukraine. It's all taken together and gave reason to talk about the "Kyiv school" as a direction in football. After all, there were Georgian, Moscow schools ...
And most importantly. There are legal laws, life laws, and so on. And there are football ones. So we lived according to these football, Dynamo laws, which were not discussed or disputed. I am against any pressure and pressure, but I accepted and continue to accept the dictate, the supremacy of such a law.
And life has proved the validity of such a law. Judge for yourself, Slobodyan, Yuran, Yurchyshyn, Baran never played in Dynamo, and God did not deprive them of their talent... They were outside this law. And, I almost forgot, it would be unfair on my part. I want to note that it is a great happiness to have such grateful and at the same time exacting and demanding fans as Dynamo has! We played for the sake of these most dedicated football people and we had no right to betray their love!
Do you remember the then Union Championship?
I remember... I feel the strongest nostalgia for that championship! Unforgettable duel matches with Moscow "Spartak", Tbilisi "Dynamo", Yerevan "Ararat"... Different schools, interesting players - all this developed creative competition, there was a struggle, there was also the growth of teams. This is what is terribly lacking in Ukrainian football. There are very few matches in which the people of Kiev need to improve their skills and abilities. Fortunately, Shakhtar Donetsk appeared, but this is not enough! Is it possible to put up with the fact that Metalist Kharkiv is now in the penultimate place in the table?! Apparently, this is now inherent not only in the Ukrainian championship.
Vladimir Vasilyevich, what would you not even want to remember?
Honestly? This is the 1988 European Championship in Germany. As never before, we were one step away from medals, I mean gold. Why am I so worried? Yes, because I really wanted to fight in the final with the Dutch, but in the semi-final with Italy I got injured and could not play. Did not go on the field and Kuznetsov because of the enumeration of cards. In a word, the composition was modernized, Belanov did not score a penalty, in addition, Dasaev missed a ridiculous ball from Van Basten, the “gold” went to Holland. Although, to be honest, to beat the Dutch twice in such a fleeting tournament is an extremely difficult task, but still, it's a shame ...
Do you regret that you stopped playing early?
Yes, how can I say ... Of course, I could have played more, but I was tortured by injuries. Tired of playing, overcoming the pain.
What then?
Then I made an attempt to play in "Maccabi" Haifa, but football there is so uninteresting plus it's wearing a gas mask ... And I finally left in 1990, hanging my boots on a carnation.
Not drawn to the "abroad"?
I didn’t pull, but there was an invitation to Roma in 1988, but Lobanovsky asked me to stay until 1990, to help the team, I could not refuse him. I'll tell you frankly, I do not quite understand the desire of young players to quickly leave for a foreign club. It doesn’t matter where, it doesn’t matter if you play or sit on a bench, but leave. You only need to leave for a good club, a club with a name, to leave when you know for sure that the club needs you ... Well, Nigmatullin left for Verona, so what did he win? So I don't regret anything in general, what can you regret playing for one of the strongest clubs in Europe, and that was Dynamo Kiev, and playing in one of the strongest championships.
How did your coaching work develop?
In 1991, he took over the double of Dynamo Kyiv, worked with him for two years. Then I was invited to the post of head coach of the Borisfen Borispol team. Everything was going well, but the club went bankrupt and in 1995, together with Lozinsky, Kuznetsov, Litovchenko, I began working at CSKA Kiev. Well, this year the leadership of the National Football Center of Turkmenistan invited me to head the national team of the country.
How did you take this turn in your life?
Well, turn around, that's a big word. The invitation was accepted with interest. I had contacts with some football functionaries of your country, I also knew about the existence of such strong clubs as "Kopetdag" and "Nisa". We, in CSKA, have a very promising football player Guvanch Ovekov. So I went to work here, already having an idea about the football of Turkmenistan.
Where did you start?
As you know, the national team is preparing for the Asian Games, which will be held in Korea, and the peculiarity of the games is that the national team must consist of players not older than 1979. and only three players can be older. I watched a lot of matches of the first, National Leagues. Our coaching staff, which included Rakhim Kurbanmammadov and Bayram Durdyev, drew up a work plan, a preliminary list of players. I can report that invitations have been sent to Kharchik, Ovekov, Bordolimov, Lebedintsev, Urazov, Bayramov, who play for foreign clubs, and they have received their consent to play for the national team.
Who will be given preference in the preparation of the final list of the national team?
Those who want to play for the national team, and those who will be better in the game plan. You see, I am generally amazed at the timing of the Games, I think that they are unsuccessful. After all, both Nisa and Kopetdag will play in the Asian Champions League, on the 28th month of Garashsyzlyk the final of the Cup of the country is played. So the timing is clearly ill-conceived.
Who are our rivals?
On the 27th of the month of Ruhnama, we will meet in Busan with the Chinese team, then we will play with the Indian team, then with the Bangladesh team. The team that won the first place has the right to continue the fight further. Teams that take second place in subgroups, but the best, also have a chance to advance to the next round of the tournament.
I think that the group is difficult, but passable. We pin certain hopes that the players will not need time to play, they know each other quite well. We also hope that the invitees - Kharchik, Urazov Didar, Lebedintsev, Bordolimov, Ovekov - have enough playing practice in their clubs, and our coaching task is to find the combination of players that will be optimal for that period of time. tactical option for a particular game.
By the way, I am very grateful to you for not asking me what place you plan to take in Korea, etc. Forecasts are not my genre, my job is to work. I can only say that there are always chances, as well as hope ... So, let's go to play and fight.
Vladimir Vasilyevich, what is your criterion for a national team player?
And not only. In general, I think that universalism is the main quality of a generally cool player. The more generalists in the team, the more difficult it is to beat it.
You are the owner of many titles and titles. You are marked by numerous awards and honors, by right, by the way. What else would you like?
I would like to win many tournaments with the national team of Turkmenistan. And, if by and large, then we all - who have achieved and won something, and the players are young, owe football. Regardless of rank and title, we owe this great game. So, as long as I live, I will repay football for as long, it would be nice to remember this for young players too ...
Of course, we did not manage to talk about everything with Vladimir Vasilyevich, in particular, we have not talked much about Turkmen football yet. It is understandable: Bessonov has been working in Turkmenistan for a little over a month. So we have a conversation about this ahead of us, Vladimir Vasilyevich promised ... The coaching staff of our renewed team has big plans, Bessonov has a desire to work and help Turkmen football. So we just have to wait, hope and believe.
E. IVANNIKOV
Weekly "Sport of Turkmenistan", 07.09.2002
| FIRST | OLYMPUS | UNOFFICIAL | DATE | MATCH | FIELD | |||
| And | G | And | G | And | G | |||
| 1 | 28.07.1977 | GDR - USSR - 2: 1 | G | |||||
| 2 | 07.09.1977 | USSR - POLAND - 4: 1 | d | |||||
| 3 | 05.10.1977 | HOLLAND - USSR - 0:0 | G | |||||
| 4 | 08.10.1977 | FRANCE - USSR - 0:0 | G | |||||
| 5 | 26.02.1978 | MOROCCO - USSR - 2: 3 | G | |||||
| 6 | 05.04.1978 | USSR - FINLAND - 10: 2 | d | |||||
| 7 | 14.05.1978 | ROMANIA - USSR - 0:1 | G | |||||
| 8 | 06.09.1978 | IRAN - USSR - 0:1 | G | |||||
| 9 | 1 | 20.09.1978 | USSR - GREECE - 2:0 | d | ||||
| 10 | 05.10.1978 | Türkiye - USSR - 0:2 | G | |||||
| 11 | 11.10.1978 | HUNGARY - USSR - 2:0 | G | |||||
| 12 | 19.11.1978 | JAPAN - USSR - 1: 4 | G | |||||
| 13 | 23.11.1978 | JAPAN - USSR - 1: 4 | G | |||||
| 14 | 2 | 26.11.1978 | JAPAN - USSR - 0:3 | G | ||||
| 15 | 28.03.1979 | USSR - BULGARIA - 3: 1 | d | |||||
| 16 | 19.04.1979 | USSR - SWEDEN - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 17 | 27.06.1979 | DENMARK - USSR - 1:2 | G | |||||
| 18 | 04.07.1979 | FINLAND - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 19 | 31.10.1979 | USSR - FINLAND - 2: 2 | d | |||||
| 20 | 26.03.1980 | BULGARIA - USSR - 1:3 | G | |||||
| 21 | 29.04.1980 | SWEDEN - USSR - 1:5 | G | |||||
| 22 | 23.05.1980 | USSR - FRANCE - 1:0 | d | |||||
| 23 | 15.06.1980 | BRAZIL - USSR - 1:2 | G | |||||
| 24 | 12.07.1980 | USSR - DENMARK - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 1 | 20.07.1980 | USSR - VENEZUELA - 4:0 | d | |||||
| 2 | 22.07.1980 | USSR - ZAMBIA - 3: 1 | d | |||||
| 3 | 1 | 24.07.1980 | USSR - CUBA - 8:0 | d | ||||
| 4 | 27.07.1980 | USSR - KUWAIT - 2:1 | d | |||||
| 5 | 29.07.1980 | USSR - East Germany - 0:1 | d | |||||
| 6 | 01.08.1980 | USSR - YUGOSLAVIA - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 25 | 27.08.1980 | HUNGARY - USSR - 1: 4 | G | |||||
| 26 | 03.09.1980 | ICELAND - USSR - 1:2 | G | |||||
| 27 | 3 | 15.10.1980 | USSR - ICELAND - 5:0 | d | ||||
| 28 | 30.05.1981 | WALES - USSR - 0:0 | G | |||||
| 29 | 23.09.1981 | USSR - Türkiye - 4: 0 | d | |||||
| 30 | 07.10.1981 | Türkiye - USSR - 0:3 | d | |||||
| 31 | 28.10.1981 | USSR - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 32 | 03.06.1982 | SWEDEN - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 33 | 14.06.1982 | BRAZIL - USSR - 2:1 | n | |||||
| 34 | 19.06.1982 | NEW ZEALAND - USSR - 0:3 | n | |||||
| 35 | 22.06.1982 | SCOTLAND - USSR - 2:2 | n | |||||
| 36 | 01.07.1982 | BELGIUM - USSR - 0:1 | n | |||||
| 37 | 04.07.1982 | POLAND - USSR - 0:0 | n | |||||
| 38 | 13.10.1982 | USSR - FINLAND - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 39 | 23.03.1983 | FRANCE - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 40 | 13.04.1983 | SWITZERLAND - USSR - 0:1 | G | |||||
| 41 | 27.04.1983 | USSR - PORTUGAL - 5: 0 | d | |||||
| 42 | 17.05.1983 | AUSTRIA - USSR - 2:2 | G | |||||
| 43 | 22.05.1983 | POLAND - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 44 | 15.05.1984 | FINLAND - USSR - 1:3 | G | |||||
| 45 | 19.08.1984 | USSR - MEXICO - 3: 0 | d | |||||
| 46 | 12.09.1984 | IRELAND - USSR - 1:0 | G | |||||
| 47 | 16.10.1985 | USSR - IRELAND - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 48 | 30.10.1985 | USSR - NORWAY - 1:0 | d | |||||
| 49 | 22.01.1986 | SPAIN - USSR - 2:0 | G | |||||
| 50 | 19.02.1986 | MEXICO - USSR - 1:0 | G | |||||
| 51 | 26.03.1986 | USSR - ENGLAND - 0: 1 | d | |||||
| 52 | 23.04.1986 | ROMANIA - USSR - 2:1 | G | |||||
| 53 | 07.05.1986 | USSR - FINLAND - 0:0 |
d | |||||
| 54 | 02.06.1986 | HUNGARY - USSR - 0:6 | n | |||||
| 55 | 05.06.1986 | FRANCE - USSR - 1:1 | n | |||||
| 56 | 15.06.1986 | BELGIUM - USSR - 4:3 | n | |||||
| 57 | 24.09.1986 | ICELAND - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 58 | 11.10.1986 | FRANCE - USSR - 0: 2 | G | |||||
| 59 | 29.10.1986 | USSR - NORWAY - 4: 0 | d | |||||
| 60 | 29.04.1987 | USSR - East Germany - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 61 | 23.09.1987 | USSR - GREECE - 3: 0 | d | |||||
| 62 | 10.10.1987 | GDR - USSR - 1: 1 | G | |||||
| 63 | 28.10.1987 | USSR - ICELAND - 2: 0 | d | |||||
| 64 | 20.02.1988 | ITALY - USSR - 4:1 | G | |||||
| 65 | 31.03.1988 | ARGENTINA - USSR - 2: 4 | n | |||||
| 66 | 27.04.1988 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 67 | 01.06.1988 | USSR - POLAND - 2: 1 | d | |||||
| 68 | 12.06.1988 | HOLLAND - USSR - 0:1 | n | |||||
| 69 | 18.06.1988 | ENGLAND - USSR - 1:3 | n | |||||
| 70 | 22.06.1988 | ITALY - USSR - 0:2 | n | |||||
| 71 | 17.08.1988 | FINLAND - USSR - 0:0 | G | |||||
| 72 | 31.08.1988 | ICELAND - USSR - 1:1 | G | |||||
| 73 | 31.05.1989 | USSR - ICELAND - 1:1 | d | |||||
| 1 | 28.06.1989 | USSR - STARS OF THE WORLD - 3:3 | d | |||||
| 74 | 06.09.1989 | AUSTRIA - USSR - 0:0 |
G | |||||
| 75 | 08.10.1989 | GDR - USSR - 2: 1 | G | |||||
| 76 | 20.02.1990 | COLOMBIA - USSR - 0:0 | n | |||||
| 77 | 4 | 24.02.1990 | USA - USSR - 1:3 | G | ||||
| 78 | 09.06.1990 | ROMANIA - USSR - 2:0 | n | |||||
| 79 | 13.06.1990 | ARGENTINA - USSR - 2:0 | n | |||||
| FIRST | OLYMPUS | UNOFFICIAL | ||||||
| And | G | And | G | And | G | |||
| 79 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | | |||
Pupil of the Kharkov football school No. 7, Kharkov sports boarding school. The first coach is Mikhail Nasedkin.
Played for Metalist Kharkiv (1975), Dynamo Kyiv (1976 - 1990), Maccabi Haifa, Israel (1990 - 1991).
Champion of the USSR 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990 USSR Cup Winner 1978, 1985, 1987, 1990 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986
He played 79 matches for the USSR national team and scored 4 goals. He played 6 matches for the USSR Olympic team and scored 1 goal.
Vice-champion of Europe in 1988. Participant of the world championships in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympics European champion among juniors 1976 World champion among juniors (was recognized as the best player in the championship) 1977
Head coach of SKA Kyiv (1993). Head coach of the club "Borisfen" Kyiv (1994). Head coach of CSKA Kyiv (1997 - 2000, 2001). Head coach of the national team of Turkmenistan (2002 - 2003). Head coach of the club "Niva" Vinnitsa (2004 - 2005). Head coach of the club "Dawn" Lugansk (2006). Head coach of the club "Kharkiv" Kharkov (2006 - 2008). Head coach of the club "Dnepr" Dnepropetrovsk (2008 - 2010).
THE PLAYER WHO CAN LITERALLY EVERYTHING
- He has been in the public eye in football since childhood, since when he still lived in Kharkov. In the youth national team of the country, Volodya was already distinguished by high technique, and amazing performance, and constant focus on the opponents' goal, and the ability to fight to the end. The last, perhaps, his most valuable quality ... At the age of 17, he became the world champion among youths.
What has he achieved lately? Much. In my opinion, Bessonov personifies the modern type of football player who can play in any position and in any arrangement. Moreover, I would even call him one of our first football players of the future, meaning football in which all players can do literally everything that this game consists of on the field. He not only now knows how to do everything, but also continues this ability to polish. He is only 23 years old, and he has not yet fully revealed his playing potential. I have no doubt that Bessonov will play more and more effectively over the years, because he fully possesses such an important quality as the ability to quickly perceive everything new. Volodya catches any tactical tasks instantly, as he can immediately mentally recreate the image of the actions entrusted to him. It is very difficult and not given to everyone. And further. He is one of the few players in our team who makes the most of the entire space of the field for the game.
Bessonov is still scoring fewer goals than he could and than others do. In every game he works selflessly, does everything that the team needs, but I would like him to show his individual qualities more often during a direct attack on the opponents' goal.
This is how the coach of both teams Valery Lobanovsky described Vladimir Bessonov, the captain of Dynamo Kyiv, midfielder of this club and the USSR national team.
The characteristic, as we see, is quite complete, but purely sporty.
Well, what kind of person is Vladimir Bessonov? I will give a few statements about him by his own teammates, deliberately not naming them, because I realized that they express the opinion of the entire team.
"Despite his youth, Bessonov has been the captain of the team for two years now. Why? It's simple: he knows how to find a common language with people. Very different. He knows how, if necessary, to give in, but he knows how to demand when necessary."
“The interests of the team are everything for him. Sometimes the team is given a task for a particular match, which does not allow him to personally show off his skills to the fullest. For a football player, especially a young one, this is always unpleasant and difficult. But not for Bessonov.”
"Very kind by nature, sympathetic and sincerely generous. Always comes to the aid of a friend, especially a beginner ..."
“It’s interesting to watch him at meetings. In fact, he is laconic, but when a “hot question” arises, he always speaks and knows how to clearly put everything on the shelves. They always listen to what he says. And not only because he was delegate to the 18th Congress of the Komsomol, although this in itself speaks volumes.
"An extremely diligent student. That's who the teachers of the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education never have trouble with."
Well, it turns out that Vladimir Bessonov is a man without flaws? Of course not. But they involuntarily retreat into the shadows under the pressure of those undeniable high human virtues that this young and already famous athlete is endowed with. Virtues that are given not only by nature ...
G. BORISOV. Newspaper "Soviet sport", 06.02.1982
FAVORITE WOMEN OF VLADIMIR BESSONOV
In this cozy Kyiv apartment on holidays (and not only) it smells of flowers. The owner of the house knows well the tastes of his beloved women: he gives roses to his wife, and tulips to his daughter.
Marriages are said to be made in heaven. Well, stellar marriages - even more so. The famous football player of Dynamo Kiev and the USSR national team Vladimir Bessonov and the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Victoria Bessonova (who is remembered by experts in this sport under her maiden name Serykh) have been together for 18 years. At the same time, the father and mother of the Bessonovs raised not one, but two whole "I": daughter, "artist" Anya and son, tennis player Sasha. It is almost impossible to catch them all together at home. We are still, consider ourselves lucky: when we came to visit the Bessonovs, the family was three-quarters complete. Only 17-year-old Sasha was absent. As it turned out, he is in Barcelona, at the tennis academy of Luis Brugueira, the father and coach of the famous Spanish player Sergi Brugueira.
FOOTBALL AND GYMNASTIC NOVEL
- For some reason, football-gymnastic marriages have always been popular in Dynamo Kiev. Blokhin - Deryugina, Buryak - Vasyur, Bessonov - Gray, Berezhnoy - Yevtushenko, Khlus - Zakharova ... Here you are, for example, where and when did you meet?
VLADIMIR: We were officially introduced to each other at Oleg Blokhin's wedding in December 1980. They were next to the table. Although I first saw Vika when she was 12 years old. And such is the backstory. At the Dynamo training base, my roommate was Alexander Khapsalis, and his wife worked as a choreographer for Albina Nikolaevna Deriugina. When Hapsalis went to meet his wife after training, I often kept him company. Naturally, entering the hall, he did not close his eyes. Hapsalis once again told me, pointing to Vika: "Look, what a pretty girl."
VICTORIA: They had such a hobby - to spy on us (laughs). Especially at the base in Novogorsk, when the terms of the training camp of the USSR football team coincided with ours. In my opinion, most football and gymnastic novels began there.
How much time has passed from the day you "officially" met at someone else's wedding to your own wedding?
VLADIMIR: A year and four months - we signed in April 1982. Vika then lived with her parents in Fastov, and studied at the Kiev sports boarding school. Every day by train there and back - almost two and a half hours. I walked her home if time allowed. But much more often I had to mentally praise the inventor of the telephone.
Were the children brought up strictly? VLADIMIR: In the sense of a belt on the ass? Never. I saw them infrequently: all the time - either training camp, then matches, then Dynamo, then the national team.
VICTORIA: When Vladimir was still playing, I took the children and went with them even to the understudy matches that took place in Kyiv. Because for such games in Dynamo, players of the main squad were also brought without fail. And we had two whole hours to see dad, take a walk with him in the park.
Probably the biggest problem in life that arises in a family like yours is constant separation?
VICTORIA: What's true is true. Of the 18 years we've been married, I'm afraid we haven't spent half that time together. We especially don’t like winter with our children: our dad at this time is at an endless training camp - first as a football player, now as a coach. Before, when I saw kids with their fathers somewhere at the rink, I had tears of envy in my eyes.
VLADIMIR: In our hallway, someone's sports bag is always ready: either mine, or Anin, or Sashin. Yes, and Vika does not stay at home - she often goes to competitions as a leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine.
Vladimir Bessonov in a match with the Dutch team at the 1988 European Championship
SCARS DECORATE A MAN
- Vladimir Bessonov remained in the memory of millions of fans as an outstanding footballer, winner of numerous titles and ... the bearer of one not very pleasant nickname - Trauma Man. Has the last circumstance somehow complicated your family life?
VICTORIA: Perhaps my judgment will seem paradoxical, but for some reason I am sure that the football hardships that fell to my husband at one time objectively contributed to strengthening the family. Firstly, almost all of Volodya's injuries were the result of his athletic nature - strong-willed and uncompromising. On the field, he behaved like a real man, always climbed into the thick of it, never removed his leg, as, according to my observations, many other football players did. Well, how not to love such a man? And secondly, when once again he, "wounded", found himself at home on crutches, I, like a perfect egoist, even quietly rejoiced: well, finally, we'll stay together longer! I remember that the first operation for his meniscus coincided with the period when our Sasha was just starting to walk. And Volodya amusingly hobbled around the apartment with his son - he worked out his sore leg. Well, I really suffered from fear when he was once brought home with such a massive corset around his neck. The consequences of a fracture of the cervical vertebra could be the saddest, up to paralysis. It worked out, thank God.
VLADIMIR: Well, why only God - and Vika too. We can say that with me my wife found a new profession - a nurse. Even if it sounds trite, but thanks to the super-reliable rear that the family turned out to be, I played for 15 years in Dynamo Kiev, was the champion of the Union six times, held the Cup of Cups in my hands, participated in three world championships. So it’s a sin for me to complain about my fate, despite all the hardships experienced.
MOM DREAMED TO SEE ANIA ON THE BALLET STAGE
- There was no doubt that the daughter should follow her mother's path?
VICTORIA: To be honest, at first I saw Anya on the ballet stage, and not on the gymnastic carpet. She started dancing at the age of three, and we took her to the choreographic studio of the usual House of Culture. Then Anya got into the children's ensemble "Kiyanochka", and it seemed to me that her fate was predetermined. But at the age of 7, she suddenly changed her mind and decided to become a gymnast. To object to this, you know, it was difficult.
Is it too late to start at 7?
VICTORIA: By today's standards, of course, it's a bit late. But Anya already had good choreographic training, which made her prospects in sports real. I brought her to Albina Nikolaevna, she said that there is no group of this age at her school now. And she suggested: "Dial such a group yourself, look for a hall - and go ahead." Which is what I did. We can say that for the sake of Ani she returned to the gym as a coach. And three years ago she transferred her daughter to the Deryugins' school - Galina Beloglazova, a former absolute world champion, began working with her there.
WHO IS THE MAIN HOUSE?
- It is generally accepted that two self-sufficient and strong personalities sometimes cannot get along together. In particular, the recent breakup of the Blokhin-Deryugin star couple is explained by many precisely by this. And how is the problem of the leader in your family solved?
VICTORIA: Definitely, once and for all: the head of the house is Vladimir.
VLADIMIR: I beg you: do not delete these words from the interview for anything. I'll cut them out of the newspaper and hang them on the front door. No, better in the living room in the most visible place (laughs).
What can cause a quarrel between you?
VICTORIA: Husband's silence. He comes home from work, burrows into the newspapers and is silent. This irritates me terribly, I want to talk.
VLADIMIR: Yes, I already yelled so hard at two training sessions that I have no strength
Who then takes the first step towards a truce?
VLADIMIR: Well, in this regard, we are both "leaders", God forbid! Stubborn to the point of impossibility. However, any of our quarrels resolves by itself at exactly 6.45. At this time, the alarm clock rings in the house, which means: life goes on. By 7.30 you need to take Anya to the gym for a warm-up, then Vika to work and go to training yourself. There is no time to pout at each other.
Unable to escape on vacation with the whole family?
VICTORIA: The last time the four of us had a rest was five years ago. And even then not for long and not far - on the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov in Berdyansk. This summer, Anya and I escaped to Alushta for four days. We guessed for the tennis tournament in which Sasha played, and drove off. But they still didn’t lie on the beach, but actively rested with their daughter: crosses ran, swam, cheered for Sasha. That's all our family vacation.
VLADIMIR: By the way, I have a funny story connected with Alushta. In my football years, Dynamo Kyiv often held training camps there. And somehow, in the summer, we were lying with the whole team after a workout on the beach, I overcame in the sun. And I hear Lobanovsky's voice through my sleep: "You turn him over more often, otherwise redheads, you can believe me, do not sunbathe, but immediately burn out in the sun." After all, Lobanovsky and I are both red-haired.
In a family where there are two gymnasts at once, it may not be very appropriate to start talking about gluttony. However, the presence of two more healthy men in the house makes the culinary theme still quite relevant.
VLADIMIR: I don’t think so, because I don’t consider myself a gourmet, and Sasha, too, when he is at home, is quite satisfied with convenience foods. And there are a lot of them in stores now.
VICTORIA: Which one of us really has to suffer from "malnutrition" is Anya. Ice cream, sweets, cake - none of this is impossible. And when they forbid, I especially want to - I went through it myself. Then, when everything is possible, such a desire will no longer exist.
DAD IS OFFENDED AT THE JUDGES. BUT NOT ON FOOTBALL
- Do you give any practical recommendations to the head coach of the Ukrainian Premier League football team CSKA (Kyiv) Vladimir Bessonov?
VICTORIA: No, I don't risk it. My understanding of football is still at the fan level. Although this game is much simpler and more intelligible for perception than our sport. There are more specifics in football: scored a goal - won, missed - lost. Like two times two is four.
And you, Vladimir, can you argue about rhythmic gymnastics with the leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine Victoria Bessonova?
VLADIMIR: Yes. Consider me a professor in this sport. However, I don’t like to argue with anyone in principle, I prefer to always stick to my own opinion. True, for some reason it almost never coincides with the judges' assessments. Look: all the girls seem to be doing the same thing with these ribbons, hoops, balls and maces, but the grades are so different. It is especially insulting when the daughter gets few points.
What sports achievements of 15-year-old Anya can be considered the most significant?
VICTORIA: Bronze medal at the last World Championships in Japan in the team of senior gymnasts. Silver of the World Cup-97 in the all-around among juniors. And, probably, the third place among juniors in the all-around at the World Youth Games in Moscow, where Anya won five more medals in separate exercises.
FOOTBALL GENES REMAIN UNCALLED
- If the daughter's sports choice was influenced by her mother's example, then it would be logical to assume that the son will inherit the father's football genes. Why didn't this happen?
VLADIMIR: Sasha did not escape football temptations, he studied at the Dynamo school until the age of 13. But one day I awkwardly fell in the gym, got a severe concussion, which we treated for two months. Doctors advised to give him to some other sport, less traumatic. Well, he did not immediately agree with chess, but he fell in love with tennis at first sight. He became a racket fan and completely painlessly, to our joy with Vika, parted with a soccer ball. Of course, he went to the court a little late and is now trying to make up for lost time. In the classification of 17-year-olds, it ranks 8th in Ukraine.
- By the way, the sons of Sergei Bubka also sometimes train in Barcelona at the Brugueira Tennis Academy.
VICTORIA: I heard about it, but our paths didn't cross there. True, I can’t apply for the role of a tennis mother, like Lilia Bubka. Otherwise, I would have to be torn between Anina's rhythmic gymnastics, which, of course, is closer to me, and Sasha's tennis. But in this case, we have a tennis grandfather who takes care of his grandson on all trips. After all, I also grew up in a sports family: my father and mother, masters of sports, were quite famous road cyclists in Ukraine. However, I never learned how to ride a bike.
VLADIMIR: In February I was with the team at a training camp in Spain - I managed to see my son there at the same time. She says she misses home. But what to do - such is the sporting life.
For football coach Volodymyr Bessonov, a hot time is now coming: the Ukrainian championship is about to resume, and his CSKA is hard at work preparing. But even earlier - from March 10 to March 12 - a serious exam awaits Anya Bessonova: the traditional international gymnastic tournament "Deriugins Cup" will be held in Kyiv. Despite being over-employed, dad will probably try to escape for an hour or two to the Sports Palace to cheer on his daughter. It is possible that he will need tulips again.
He played 79 matches for the USSR national team and scored 4 goals. He played 6 matches for the USSR Olympic team and scored 1 goal. He also played for the USSR national team in 1 unofficial match.
Vice-champion of Europe in 1988. Participant of the world championships in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympics European champion among juniors 1976 World champion among juniors (was recognized as the best player in the championship) 1977
Head coach of SKA Kyiv (1993). Head coach of the club "Borisfen" Kyiv (1994). Head coach of CSKA Kyiv (1997 - 2000, 2001). Head coach of the national team of Turkmenistan (2002 - 2003). Head coach of the club "Niva" Vinnitsa (2004 - 2005). Head coach of the club "Dawn" Lugansk (2006). Head coach of the club "Kharkiv" Kharkov (since 2006).
In this cozy Kyiv apartment on holidays (and not only) it smells of flowers. The owner of the house knows well the tastes of his beloved women: he gives roses to his wife, and tulips to his daughter.
STANDARD OF A SPORTS FAMILY
Marriages are said to be made in heaven. Well, stellar marriages - even more so. The famous football player of Dynamo Kiev and the USSR national team Vladimir Bessonov and the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Victoria Bessonova (who is remembered by experts in this sport under her maiden name Serykh) have been together for 18 years. At the same time, the father and mother of the Bessonovs raised not one, but two whole "I": daughter, "artist" Anya and son, tennis player Sasha. It is almost impossible to catch them all together at home. We are still, consider ourselves lucky: when we came to visit the Bessonovs, the family was three-quarters complete. Only 17-year-old Sasha was absent. As it turned out, he is in Barcelona, at the tennis academy of Luis Brugueira, the father and coach of the famous Spanish player Sergi Brugueira.
FOOTBALL AND GYMNASTIC NOVEL
- For some reason, football-gymnastic marriages have always been popular in Dynamo Kiev. Blokhin - Deryugina, Buryak - Vasyur, Bessonov - Gray, Berezhnoy - Yevtushenko, Khlus - Zakharova ... Here you are, for example, where and when did you meet?
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VLADIMIR: We were officially introduced to each other at Oleg Blokhin's wedding in December 1980. They were next to the table. Although I first saw Vika when she was 12 years old. And such is the backstory. At the Dynamo training base, my roommate was Alexander Khapsalis, and his wife worked as a choreographer for Albina Nikolaevna Deriugina. When Hapsalis went to meet his wife after training, I often kept him company. Naturally, entering the hall, he did not close his eyes. Hapsalis once again told me, pointing to Vika: "Look, what a pretty girl."
VICTORIA: They had such a hobby - to spy on us (laughs). Especially at the base in Novogorsk, when the terms of the training camp of the USSR football team coincided with ours. In my opinion, most football and gymnastic novels began there.
- How much time has passed for you from the day of "official" acquaintance at someone else's wedding to your own wedding?
VLADIMIR: A year and four months - we signed in April 1982. Vika then lived with her parents in Fastov, and studied at the Kiev sports boarding school. Every day by train there and back - almost two and a half hours. I walked her home if time allowed. But much more often I had to mentally praise the inventor of the telephone.
- Were the children brought up strictly? VLADIMIR: In the sense of a belt on the ass? Never. I saw them infrequently: all the time - either training camp, then matches, then Dynamo, then the national team.
VICTORIA: When Vladimir was still playing, I took the children and went with them even to the understudy matches that took place in Kyiv. Because for such games in Dynamo, players of the main squad were also brought without fail. And we had two whole hours to see dad, take a walk with him in the park.
- Probably the biggest everyday problem that arises in a family like yours is constant separation?
VICTORIA: What's true is true. Of the 18 years we've been married, I'm afraid we haven't spent half that time together. We especially don’t like winter with our children: our dad at this time is at an endless training camp - first as a football player, now as a coach. Before, when I saw kids with their fathers somewhere at the rink, I had tears of envy in my eyes.
VLADIMIR: In our hallway, someone's sports bag is always ready: either mine, or Anin, or Sashin. Yes, and Vika does not stay at home - she often goes to competitions as a leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine.
SCARS DECORATE A MAN
- Vladimir Bessonov remained in the memory of millions of fans as an outstanding footballer, winner of numerous titles and ... the bearer of one not very pleasant nickname - Trauma Man. Has the last circumstance somehow complicated your family life?
VICTORIA: Perhaps my judgment will seem paradoxical, but for some reason I am sure that the football hardships that fell to my husband at one time objectively contributed to strengthening the family. Firstly, almost all of Volodya's injuries were the result of his athletic nature - strong-willed and uncompromising. On the field, he behaved like a real man, always climbed into the thick of it, never removed his leg, as, according to my observations, many other football players did. Well, how not to love such a man? And secondly, when once again he, "wounded", found himself at home on crutches, I, like a perfect egoist, even quietly rejoiced: well, finally, we'll stay together longer! I remember that the first operation for his meniscus coincided with the period when our Sasha was just starting to walk. And Volodya amusingly hobbled around the apartment with his son - he worked out his sore leg. Well, I really suffered from fear when he was once brought home with such a massive corset around his neck. The consequences of a fracture of the cervical vertebra could be the saddest, up to paralysis. It worked out, thank God.
VLADIMIR: Well, why only God - and Vika too. We can say that with me my wife found a new profession - a nurse. Even if it sounds trite, but thanks to the super-reliable rear that the family turned out to be, I played for 15 years in Dynamo Kiev, was the champion of the Union six times, held the Cup of Cups in my hands, participated in three world championships. So it’s a sin for me to complain about my fate, despite all the hardships experienced.
MOM DREAMED TO SEE ANIA ON THE BALLET STAGE
- There was no doubt that the daughter should follow her mother's path?
VICTORIA: To be honest, at first I saw Anya on the ballet stage, and not on the gymnastic carpet. She started dancing at the age of three, and we took her to the choreographic studio of the usual House of Culture. Then Anya got into the children's ensemble "Kiyanochka", and it seemed to me that her fate was predetermined. But at the age of 7, she suddenly changed her mind and decided to become a gymnast. To object to this, you know, it was difficult.
- Isn't it too late to start at 7 years old?
VICTORIA: By today's standards, of course, it's a bit late. But Anya already had good choreographic training, which made her prospects in sports real. I brought her to Albina Nikolaevna, she said that there is no group of this age at her school now. And she suggested: "Dial such a group yourself, look for a hall - and go ahead." Which is what I did. We can say that for the sake of Ani she returned to the gym as a coach. And three years ago she transferred her daughter to the Deryugins' school - Galina Beloglazova, a former absolute world champion, began working with her there.
WHO IS THE MAIN HOUSE?
- It is generally accepted that two self-sufficient and strong personalities sometimes cannot get along together. In particular, the recent breakup of the Blokhin-Deryugin star couple is explained by many precisely by this. And how is the problem of the leader in your family solved?
VICTORIA: Definitely, once and for all: the head of the house is Vladimir.
VLADIMIR: I beg you: do not delete these words from the interview for anything. I'll cut them out of the newspaper and hang them on the front door. No, better in the living room in the most visible place (laughs).
- What can cause a quarrel between you?
VICTORIA: Husband's silence. He comes home from work, burrows into the newspapers and is silent. This irritates me terribly, I want to talk.
VLADIMIR: Yes, I already yelled so hard at two training sessions that I have no strength
- Who then takes the first step towards a truce?
VLADIMIR: Well, in this regard, we are both "leaders", God forbid! Stubborn to the point of impossibility. However, any of our quarrels resolves by itself at exactly 6.45. At this time, the alarm clock rings in the house, which means: life goes on. By 7.30 you need to take Anya to the gym for a warm-up, then Vika to work and go to training yourself. There is no time to pout at each other.
- Can't get away on vacation with the whole family?
VICTORIA: The last time the four of us had a rest was five years ago. And even then not for long and not far - on the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov in Berdyansk. This summer, Anya and I escaped to Alushta for four days. We guessed for the tennis tournament in which Sasha played, and drove off. But they still didn’t lie on the beach, but actively rested with their daughter: crosses ran, swam, cheered for Sasha. That's all our family vacation.
VLADIMIR: By the way, I have a funny story connected with Alushta. In my football years, Dynamo Kyiv often held training camps there. And somehow, in the summer, we were lying with the whole team after a workout on the beach, I overcame in the sun. And I hear Lobanovsky's voice through my sleep: "You turn him over more often, otherwise redheads, you can believe me, do not sunbathe, but immediately burn out in the sun." After all, Lobanovsky and I are both red-haired.
- In a family where there are two gymnasts at once, it may not be very appropriate to start talking about gluttony. However, the presence of two more healthy men in the house makes the culinary theme still quite relevant.
VLADIMIR: I don’t think so, because I don’t consider myself a gourmet, and Sasha, too, when he is at home, is quite satisfied with convenience foods. And there are a lot of them in stores now.
VICTORIA: Which one of us really has to suffer from "malnutrition" is Anya. Ice cream, sweets, cake - none of this is impossible. And when they forbid, I especially want to - I went through it myself. Then, when everything is possible, such a desire will no longer exist.
DAD IS OFFENDED AT THE JUDGES. BUT NOT ON FOOTBALL
VICTORIA: No, I don't risk it. My understanding of football is still at the fan level. Although this game is much simpler and more intelligible for perception than our sport. There are more specifics in football: scored a goal - won, missed - lost. Like two times two is four.
- And you, Vladimir, can you argue about rhythmic gymnastics with the leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine Victoria Bessonova?
VLADIMIR: Yes. Consider me a professor in this sport. However, I don’t like to argue with anyone in principle, I prefer to always stick to my own opinion. True, for some reason it almost never coincides with the judges' assessments. Look: all the girls seem to be doing the same thing with these ribbons, hoops, balls and maces, but the grades are so different. It is especially insulting when the daughter gets few points.
- What sports achievements of 15-year-old Anya can be considered the most significant?
VICTORIA: Bronze medal at the last World Championships in Japan in the team of senior gymnasts. Silver of the World Cup-97 in the all-around among juniors. And, probably, the third place among juniors in the all-around at the World Youth Games in Moscow, where Anya won five more medals in separate exercises.
FOOTBALL GENES REMAIN UNCALLED
- If the daughter's sports choice was influenced by her mother's example, then it would be logical to assume that the son will inherit the father's football genes. Why didn't this happen?
VLADIMIR: Sasha did not escape football temptations, he studied at the Dynamo school until the age of 13. But one day I awkwardly fell in the gym, got a severe concussion, which we treated for two months. Doctors advised to give him to some other sport, less traumatic. Well, he did not immediately agree with chess, but he fell in love with tennis at first sight. He became a racket fan and completely painlessly, to our joy with Vika, parted with a soccer ball. Of course, he went to the court a little late and is now trying to make up for lost time. In the classification of 17-year-olds, it ranks 8th in Ukraine.
- By the way, the sons of Sergei Bubka also sometimes train in Barcelona at the Brugueira Tennis Academy.
VICTORIA: I heard about it, but our paths didn't cross there. True, I can’t apply for the role of a tennis mother, like Lilia Bubka. Otherwise, I would have to be torn between Anina's rhythmic gymnastics, which, of course, is closer to me, and Sasha's tennis. But in this case, we have a tennis grandfather who takes care of his grandson on all trips. After all, I also grew up in a sports family: my father and mother, masters of sports, were quite famous road cyclists in Ukraine. However, I never learned how to ride a bike.
VLADIMIR: In February I was with the team at a training camp in Spain - I managed to see my son there at the same time. She says she misses home. But what to do - such is the sporting life.
For football coach Volodymyr Bessonov, a hot time is now coming: the Ukrainian championship is about to resume, and his CSKA is hard at work preparing. But even earlier - from March 10 to March 12 - a serious exam awaits Anya Bessonova: the traditional international gymnastic tournament "Deriugins Cup" will be held in Kyiv. Despite being over-employed, dad will probably try to escape for an hour or two to the Sports Palace to cheer on his daughter. It is possible that he will need tulips again.
Graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education.
Biography
He lived with his parents in the area of the Kharkov Tractor Plant, on April 12 Street. My father worked as a steelmaker and was an avid fan of the local Metalist.
Vladimir from early childhood became interested in football, spent hours on wastelands, where he played with other boys. Later he was sent to the Kharkov football school number 7, and then to the local sports boarding school. The first coach is Mikhail Nasedkin. He was taken to Metalist's double, but he never played for the main team.
Soon, the breeders of Dynamo Kyiv drew attention to the young talent. Almost without a doubt, Bessonov agreed to the transition to the main team of Ukraine.
From 1976 to 1990 he played in Dynamo Kiev. He made it to the main team almost immediately. This was partly facilitated by the departure of the Dynamo leaders as part of the national team for the Olympic football tournament in Montreal. The debut took place in Kyiv, Dynamo hosted Moscow teammates and lost 0:1.
Bessonov, on the other hand, was attracted to the youth team of the USSR. Together with the team, he won the 1976 European Youth Championship (he scored the team's only goal in the final against the Hungarian national team) and the 1977 Junior World Championship. Moreover, he was recognized as the best football player of the championship at the Junior World Championship in Tunisia. The FIFA President Joao Havelange presented the player with the prize of the Ballon d'Or tournament.
From an early age, Bessonov was distinguished by universalism - he could play in almost any position, except for the goalkeeper. Moreover, Bessonov singled out this quality himself and spoke about it to Lobanovsky.
In 1980, he played for the USSR Olympic team at the football tournament of the 1980 Olympics, played 6 matches and scored 1 goal.
In the USSR national team - 79 matches, scored 4 goals.
In the lists of the 33 best football players of the USSR 11 times, of which No. 1 (1978-1982, 1985-1987, 1989) - 9 times, No. 2 (1977) and No. 3 (1988).
After the European Championship in 1988, he left the CPSU ..
In 1988, Bessonov was invited to the Italian Roma, but Lobanovsky asked him to stay in the team until 1990. In 1990, after a failure at the World Cup, he left for Israel, played for Maccabi (Haifa). He did not stay long in the Israeli club and already began the new season in 1991 as a coach of Dynamo Kyiv.
In 1993, Bessonov was invited to the post of head coach of the CSKA-Borisfen Kyiv team. However, the club soon went bankrupt and in 1995 he, along with Lozinsky, Kuznetsov and Litovchenko, began working at CSKA (Kyiv). From 1996 to March 1998 he worked as the 2nd coach of the team, from March 1998 - head coach.
The first major success for Bessonov was the club's reaching the final of the 1997/98 Ukrainian Cup and participation in the 1998/99 Cup Winners' Cup.
In 2000 he left this post. Since June 2001 - again the head coach of CSKA (Kyiv).
Since September 2002, he headed the national football team of Turkmenistan. At the same time he oversaw the Olympic and youth teams of the country. In addition, he worked part-time as a coach-consultant in the Ashgabat Nisa.
In October 2003, before the start of the Asian Cup qualifying tournament, he terminated the contract with the Turkmen Football Federation, as its leadership did not fulfill its financial obligations. Interestingly, under Bessonov, the adult team never played a single official game (footballers under 23 played at the 14th Asian Games).
In 2006 he headed FC Kharkiv. In May 2008 he left the club.
In July 2008 he was appointed sports director of Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk. On August 29, 2008, after leaving the UEFA Cup, Oleg Protasov resigned as head coach of his own free will, and Vladimir Bessonov was appointed acting head coach of the team. Since December 1, 2008 head coach.
On September 18, 2010, after another relegation from the UEFA Cup and a series of defeats in the national championship, he resigned from the post of head coach of FC Dnipro.
Pupil of the Kharkov football school No. 7, Kharkov sports boarding school. The first coach is Mikhail Nasedkin. Played for Metalist Kharkiv (1975), Dynamo Kyiv (1976 - 1990), Maccabi Haifa, Israel (1990 - 1991). Champion of the USSR 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990 USSR Cup Winner 1978, 1985, 1987, 1990 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1986
He played 79 matches for the USSR national team and scored 4 goals. He played 6 matches for the USSR Olympic team and scored 1 goal. He also played for the USSR national team in 1 unofficial match.
Vice-champion of Europe in 1988. Participant of the world championships in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympics European champion among juniors 1976 World champion among juniors (was recognized as the best player in the championship) 1977
Head coach of SKA Kyiv (1993). Head coach of the club "Borisfen" Kyiv (1994). Head coach of CSKA Kyiv (1997 - 2000, 2001). Head coach of the national team of Turkmenistan (2002 - 2003). Head coach of the club "Niva" Vinnitsa (2004 - 2005). Head coach of the club "Dawn" Lugansk (2006). Head coach of the club "Kharkiv" Kharkov (since 2006).
In this cozy Kyiv apartment on holidays (and not only) it smells of flowers. The owner of the house knows well the tastes of his beloved women: he gives roses to his wife, and tulips to his daughter.
STANDARD OF A SPORTS FAMILY
Marriages are said to be made in heaven. Well, stellar marriages - even more so. The famous football player of Dynamo Kiev and the USSR national team Vladimir Bessonov and the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Victoria Bessonova (who is remembered by experts in this sport under her maiden name Serykh) have been together for 18 years. At the same time, the father and mother of the Bessonovs raised not one, but two whole "I": daughter, "artist" Anya and son, tennis player Sasha. It is almost impossible to catch them all together at home. We are still, consider ourselves lucky: when we came to visit the Bessonovs, the family was three-quarters complete. Only 17-year-old Sasha was absent. As it turned out, he is in Barcelona, at the tennis academy of Luis Brugueira, the father and coach of the famous Spanish player Sergi Brugueira.
FOOTBALL AND GYMNASTIC NOVEL
- For some reason, football-gymnastic marriages have always been popular in Dynamo Kiev. Blokhin - Deryugina, Buryak - Vasyur, Bessonov - Gray, Berezhnoy - Yevtushenko, Khlus - Zakharova ... Here you are, for example, where and when did you meet?
VLADIMIR: We were officially introduced to each other at Oleg Blokhin's wedding in December 1980. They were next to the table. Although I first saw Vika when she was 12 years old. And such is the backstory. At the Dynamo training base, my roommate was Alexander Khapsalis, and his wife worked as a choreographer for Albina Nikolaevna Deriugina. When Hapsalis went to meet his wife after training, I often kept him company. Naturally, entering the hall, he did not close his eyes. Hapsalis once again told me, pointing to Vika: "Look, what a pretty girl."
VICTORIA: They had such a hobby - to spy on us (laughs). Especially at the base in Novogorsk, when the terms of the training camp of the USSR football team coincided with ours. In my opinion, most football and gymnastic novels began there.
- How much time has passed for you from the day of "official" acquaintance at someone else's wedding to your own wedding?
VLADIMIR: A year and four months - we signed in April 1982. Vika then lived with her parents in Fastov, and studied at the Kiev sports boarding school. Every day by train there and back - almost two and a half hours. I walked her home if time allowed. But much more often I had to mentally praise the inventor of the telephone.
- Were the children brought up strictly? VLADIMIR: In the sense of a belt on the ass? Never. I saw them infrequently: all the time - either training camp, then matches, then Dynamo, then the national team.
VICTORIA: When Vladimir was still playing, I took the children and went with them even to the understudy matches that took place in Kyiv. Because for such games in Dynamo, players of the main squad were also brought without fail. And we had two whole hours to see dad, take a walk with him in the park.
- Probably the biggest everyday problem that arises in a family like yours is constant separation?
VICTORIA: What's true is true. Of the 18 years we've been married, I'm afraid we haven't spent half that time together. We especially don’t like winter with our children: our dad at this time is at an endless training camp - first as a football player, now as a coach. Before, when I saw kids with their fathers somewhere at the rink, I had tears of envy in my eyes.
VLADIMIR: In our hallway, someone's sports bag is always ready: either mine, or Anin, or Sashin. Yes, and Vika does not stay at home - she often goes to competitions as a leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine.
SCARS DECORATE A MAN
- Vladimir Bessonov remained in the memory of millions of fans as an outstanding football player, the owner of many
numerous titles and ... the bearer of one not very pleasant nickname - Trauma Man. Has the last circumstance somehow complicated your family life?
VICTORIA: Perhaps my judgment will seem paradoxical, but for some reason I am sure that the football hardships that fell to my husband at one time objectively contributed to strengthening the family. Firstly, almost all of Volodya's injuries were the result of his athletic nature - strong-willed and uncompromising. On the field, he behaved like a real man, always climbed into the thick of it, never removed his leg, as, according to my observations, many other football players did. Well, how not to love such a man? And secondly, when once again he, "wounded", found himself at home on crutches, I, like a perfect egoist, even quietly rejoiced: well, finally, we'll stay together longer! I remember that the first operation for his meniscus coincided with the period when our Sasha was just starting to walk. And Volodya amusingly hobbled around the apartment with his son - he worked out his sore leg. Well, I really suffered from fear when he was once brought home with such a massive corset around his neck. The consequences of a fracture of the cervical vertebra could be the saddest, up to paralysis. It worked out, thank God.
VLADIMIR: Well, why only God - and Vika too. We can say that with me my wife found a new profession - a nurse. Even if it sounds trite, but thanks to the super-reliable rear that the family turned out to be, I played for 15 years in Dynamo Kiev, was the champion of the Union six times, held the Cup of Cups in my hands, participated in three world championships. So it’s a sin for me to complain about my fate, despite all the hardships experienced.
MOM DREAMED TO SEE ANIA ON THE BALLET STAGE
- There was no doubt that the daughter should follow her mother's path?
VICTORIA: To be honest, at first I saw Anya on the ballet stage, and not on the gymnastic carpet. She started dancing at the age of three, and we took her to the choreographic studio of the usual House of Culture. Then Anya got into the children's ensemble "Kiyanochka", and it seemed to me that her fate was predetermined. But at the age of 7, she suddenly changed her mind and decided to become a gymnast. To object to this, you know, it was difficult.
- Isn't it too late to start at 7 years old?
VICTORIA: By today's standards, of course, it's a bit late. But Anya already had good choreographic training, which made her prospects in sports real. I brought her to Albina Nikolaevna, she said that there is no group of this age at her school now. And she suggested: "Dial such a group yourself, look for a hall - and go ahead." Which is what I did. We can say that for the sake of Ani she returned to the gym as a coach. And three years ago she transferred her daughter to the Deryugins' school - Galina Beloglazova, a former absolute world champion, began working with her there.
WHO IS THE MAIN HOUSE?
- It is generally accepted that two self-sufficient and strong personalities sometimes cannot get along together. In particular, the recent breakup of the Blokhin-Deryugin star couple is explained by many precisely by this. And how is the problem of the leader in your family solved?
VICTORIA: Definitely, once and for all: the head of the house is Vladimir.
VLADIMIR: I beg you: do not delete these words from the interview for anything. I'll cut them out of the newspaper and hang them on the front door. No, better in the living room in the most visible place (laughs).
- What can cause a quarrel between you?
VICTORIA: Husband's silence. He comes home from work, burrows into the newspapers and is silent. This irritates me terribly, I want to talk.
VLADIMIR: Yes, I already yelled so hard at two training sessions that I have no strength
- Who then takes the first step towards a truce?
VLADIMIR: Well, in this regard, we are both "leaders", God forbid! Stubborn to the point of impossibility. However, any of our quarrels resolves by itself at exactly 6.45. At this time, the alarm clock rings in the house, which means: life goes on. By 7.30 you need to take Anya to the gym for a warm-up, then Vika to work and go to training yourself. There is no time to pout at each other.
- Can't get away on vacation with the whole family?
VICTORIA: The last time the four of us had a rest was five years ago. And even then not for long and not far - on the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov in Berdyansk. This summer, Anya and I escaped to Alushta for four days. We guessed for the tennis tournament in which Sasha played, and drove off. But they still didn’t lie on the beach, but actively rested with their daughter: crosses ran, swam, cheered for Sasha. That's all our family vacation.
VLADIMIR: By the way, I have a funny story connected with Alushta. In my football years Dynamo Kyiv
stenko carried out fees there. And somehow, in the summer, we were lying with the whole team after a workout on the beach, I overcame in the sun. And I hear Lobanovsky's voice through my sleep: "You turn him over more often, otherwise redheads, you can believe me, do not sunbathe, but immediately burn out in the sun." After all, Lobanovsky and I are both red-haired.
- In a family where there are two gymnasts at once, it may not be very appropriate to start talking about gluttony. However, the presence of two more healthy men in the house makes the culinary theme still quite relevant.
VLADIMIR: I don’t think so, because I don’t consider myself a gourmet, and Sasha, too, when he is at home, is quite satisfied with convenience foods. And there are a lot of them in stores now.
VICTORIA: Which one of us really has to suffer from "malnutrition" is Anya. Ice cream, sweets, cake - none of this is impossible. And when they forbid, I especially want to - I went through it myself. Then, when everything is possible, such a desire will no longer exist.
DAD IS OFFENDED AT THE JUDGES. BUT NOT ON FOOTBALL
VICTORIA: No, I don't risk it. My understanding of football is still at the fan level. Although this game is much simpler and more intelligible for perception than our sport. There are more specifics in football: scored a goal - won, missed - lost. Like two times two is four.
- And you, Vladimir, can you argue about rhythmic gymnastics with the leading coach of the State Sports Committee of Ukraine Victoria Bessonova?
VLADIMIR: Yes. Consider me a professor in this sport. However, I don’t like to argue with anyone in principle, I prefer to always stick to my own opinion. True, for some reason it almost never coincides with the judges' assessments. Look: all the girls seem to be doing the same thing with these ribbons, hoops, balls and maces, but the grades are so different. It is especially insulting when the daughter gets few points.
- What sports achievements of 15-year-old Anya can be considered the most significant?
VICTORIA: Bronze medal at the last World Championships in Japan in the team of senior gymnasts. Silver of the World Cup-97 in the all-around among juniors. And, probably, the third place among juniors in the all-around at the World Youth Games in Moscow, where Anya won five more medals in separate exercises.
FOOTBALL GENES REMAIN UNCALLED
- If the daughter's sports choice was influenced by her mother's example, then it would be logical to assume that the son will inherit the father's football genes. Why didn't this happen?
VLADIMIR: Sasha did not escape football temptations, he studied at the Dynamo school until the age of 13. But one day I awkwardly fell in the gym, got a severe concussion, which we treated for two months. Doctors advised to give him to some other sport, less traumatic. Well, he did not immediately agree with chess, but he fell in love with tennis at first sight. He became a racket fan and completely painlessly, to our joy with Vika, parted with a soccer ball. Of course, he went to the court a little late and is now trying to make up for lost time. In the classification of 17-year-olds, it ranks 8th in Ukraine.
- By the way, the sons of Sergei Bubka also sometimes train in Barcelona at the Brugueira Tennis Academy.
VICTORIA: I heard about it, but our paths didn't cross there. True, I can’t apply for the role of a tennis mother, like Lilia Bubka. Otherwise, I would have to be torn between Anina's rhythmic gymnastics, which, of course, is closer to me, and Sasha's tennis. But in this case, we have a tennis grandfather who takes care of his grandson on all trips. After all, I also grew up in a sports family: my father and mother, masters of sports, were quite famous road cyclists in Ukraine. However, I never learned how to ride a bike.
VLADIMIR: In February I was with the team at a training camp in Spain - I managed to see my son there at the same time. She says she misses home. But what to do - such is the sporting life.
For football coach Volodymyr Bessonov, a hot time is now coming: the Ukrainian championship is about to resume, and his CSKA is hard at work preparing. But even earlier - from March 10 to March 12 - a serious exam awaits Anya Bessonova: the traditional international gymnastic tournament "Deriugins Cup" will be held in Kyiv. Despite being over-employed, dad will probably try to escape for an hour or two to the Sports Palace to cheer on his daughter. It is possible that he will need tulips again.
