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Sergei Grigorievich Gerasimets(October 13, 1965, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Soviet and Belarusian football player of Ukrainian origin, striker; trainer.
Career
Club
Pupil of the school "Young Dynamo" (Kyiv). He got into Dynamo Kiev under Lobanovsky, but became a double player under Yuri Morozov. After two years in the reserve team, he was transferred to a subsidiary team from the city of Irpin. Viktor Kanevsky, who worked with the team at that time, let the footballer open up, allowed him to play technical football. In 1986, he accepted an invitation and moved to Shakhtar Donetsk. He left Donetsk without working well with Anatoly Konkov. Some time later, Mikhail Fomenko called him to Lanchkhuti. He wrote a statement about moving to Guria, but he warned: there will be an offer from the major league - he will go there. Soon such an offer came from Dynamo (Minsk), where he moved. He also played for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (1994-1996), Baltika Kaliningrad (1997), Zenit St. Petersburg (1997-1999), Zalgiris Kaunas (1999), Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000), Torpedo-MAZ Minsk (2001-2002).
In the national team
After the collapse of the USSR, he accepted the invitation of Mikhail Vergeenko and began to play for the Belarusian national team. He played 26 games for the national team and scored 7 goals. One of them - in the gate of Edwin Van der Sar in qualifying match against the Dutch national team in 1995.
Together with Petr Kachuro, we beat seven Dutch players. I received a pass from a partner and actually hit the gate from the corner flag. This goal was recognized as the best in that round. qualifying games.
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coaching
As a head coach, he headed the teams "Severstal" Cherepovets (2004) and "Okzhetpes" Kokshetau, Kazakhstan (2006, 2009-2010). Assisted Anatoly Byshovets in Tomsk Tom (2006) and Moscow Lokomotiv (2007). In the fall of 2008, he signed a contract with Dynamo (St. Petersburg), where he helped Eduard Malofeev until 2009.
On December 12, 2010, he completed a 240-hour coaching course in Moscow and received a Pro license.
Since 2012, he has been coaching the amateur FC Otradnoye in the city of the same name, Kirovsky District, Leningrad Region.
Since June 2013 - head coach of FC Piter.
On March 19, 2014, he was appointed to the position of head of youth teams - head of the youth football development program of FC Tosno. Worked as head coach youth team"Tosno" from the championship of the MPO "North-West" and the Leningrad region. On January 31, 2016, the contract with the club was terminated.
Before the 2016 season led new club"Junior" St. Petersburg, declared in the LFL, MPO "North-West".
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Club
Pupil of the school "Young Dynamo" (Kyiv). In Dynamo (Kyiv) he got under Lobanovsky, but became a double player under Yuri Morozov. Being in the duplicate of the Kyivans, he became friends with many football players. Among them was Grigory Pasechny, who tragically died in 1983. After two years in the reserve team, he was transferred to a subsidiary team from the city of Irpin. Viktor Kanevsky, who worked with the team at that time, let the footballer open up, allowed him to play technical football. In 1986 he accepted an invitation and moved to Shakhtar (Donetsk). He left Donetsk without getting along well with Anatoly Konkov. Some time later, Mikhail Fomenko called him to Lanchkhuti. He wrote a statement about moving to Guria, but he warned: there will be an offer from the major league - he will go there. Soon such an offer came from Dynamo (Minsk), where he moved. He also played for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (1994-1996), Baltika Kaliningrad (1997), Zenit St. Petersburg (1997-1999), Zalgiris Kaunas (1999), Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000), Torpedo-MAZ Minsk (2001-2002).
In the national team
After the collapse of the USSR, he accepted the invitation of Mikhail Vergeenko and began to play for the Belarusian national team. He played 26 games for the national team and scored 7 goals. One of them - against Edwin Van der Sar in the qualifying match against the Dutch team in 1995.
coaching
As a head coach, he headed the teams "Severstal" Cherepovets (2004) and "Okzhetpes" Kokshetau, Kazakhstan (2006, 2009-2010). Assisted Anatoly Byshovets in Tomsk "Tom" (2006) and Moscow "Locomotive" (2007). In the fall of 2008, he signed a contract with Dynamo (St. Petersburg), where he helped Eduard Malofeev until 2009. On December 12, 2010, he completed a 240-hour coaching course in Moscow and received a Pro license.
Sergei Grigorievich Gerasimets(October 13, 1965, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Soviet and Belarusian footballer Ukrainian origin, striker; trainer.
Career
Club
Pupil of the school "Young Dynamo" (Kyiv). He got into Dynamo Kiev under Lobanovsky, but became a double player under Yuri Morozov. After two years in the reserve team, he was transferred to a subsidiary team from the city of Irpin. Viktor Kanevsky, who worked with the team at that time, let the footballer open up, allowed him to play technical football. In 1986, he accepted an invitation and moved to Shakhtar Donetsk. He left Donetsk without working well with Anatoly Konkov. Some time later, Mikhail Fomenko called him to Lanchkhuti. He wrote a statement about moving to Guria, but he warned: there will be an offer from the major league - he will go there. Soon such an offer came from Dynamo (Minsk), where he moved.
In 1993, he left to play in Israel for Bnei Yehuda from Tel Aviv. He made his debut on October 30 in a game against Hapoel Tel Aviv. The debut of the player turned out - the club won 4-0, and after that Gerasimets became the main player.
He also played for Baltika Kaliningrad (1997), Zenit St. Petersburg (1997-1999), Zalgiris Kaunas (1999), Dynamo-Stroyimpulse St. Petersburg (2000), Torpedo-MAZ Minsk ( 2001-2002).
In the national team
After the collapse of the USSR, he accepted the invitation of Mikhail Vergeenko and began to play for the Belarusian national team. He played 26 games for the national team and scored 7 goals. One of them - against Edwin Van der Sar in the qualifying match against the Dutch team in 1995.
Together with Petr Kachuro, we beat seven Dutch players. I received a pass from a partner and actually hit the gate from the corner flag. This goal was recognized as the best in that round of qualifying games.Sergei Gerasimets: I have always loved football more than money. Archived from the original on December 2, 2012.
coaching
As a head coach, he headed the teams "Severstal" Cherepovets (2004) and "Okzhetpes" Kokshetau, Kazakhstan (2006, 2009-2010). Assisted Anatoly Byshovets in Tomsk "Tom" (2006) and Moscow "Locomotive" (2007). In the fall of 2008, he signed a contract with Dynamo (St. Petersburg), where he helped Eduard Malofeev until 2009.
On December 12, 2010, he completed a 240-hour coaching course in Moscow and received a Pro license.
Since 2012, he has been coaching the amateur FC Otradnoye in the city of the same name in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region.
Since June 2013 - head coach of FC Piter.
On March 19, 2014, he was appointed to the position of head of youth teams - head of the youth football development program of FC Tosno. He worked as the head coach of the youth team "Tosno" from the championship of the MRO "North-West" and the Leningrad Region. On January 31, 2016, the contract with the club was terminated.
Before the 2016 season, he headed the new club "Junior" St. Petersburg, announced in the LFL, MRO "North-West".
Club
Pupil of the school "Young Dynamo" (Kyiv). In Dynamo (Kyiv) he got under Lobanovsky, but became a double player under Yuri Morozov. Being in the duplicate of the Kyivans, he became friends with many football players. Among them was Grigory Pasechny, who tragically died in 1983. After two years in the reserve team, he was transferred to a subsidiary team from the city of Irpin. Viktor Kanevsky, who worked with the team at that time, let the footballer open up, allowed him to play technical football. In 1986 he accepted an invitation and moved to Shakhtar (Donetsk). He left Donetsk without getting along well with Anatoly Konkov. Some time later, Mikhail Fomenko called him to Lanchkhuti. He wrote a statement about moving to Guria, but he warned: there will be an offer from the major league - he will go there. Soon such an offer came from Dynamo (Minsk), where he moved. He also played for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (1994-1996), Baltika Kaliningrad (1997), Zenit St. Petersburg (1997-1999), Zalgiris Kaunas (1999), Dynamo-Stroyimpuls St. Petersburg (2000), Torpedo-MAZ Minsk (2001-2002).
In the national team
After the collapse of the USSR, he accepted the invitation of Mikhail Vergeenko and began to play for the Belarusian national team. He played 26 games for the national team and scored 7 goals. One of them - against Edwin Van der Sar in the qualifying match against the Dutch team in 1995.
coaching
As a head coach, he headed the teams "Severstal" Cherepovets (2004) and "Okzhetpes" Kokshetau, Kazakhstan (2006, 2009-2010). Assisted Anatoly Byshovets in Tomsk "Tom" (2006) and Moscow "Locomotive" (2007). In the fall of 2008, he signed a contract with Dynamo (St. Petersburg), where he helped Eduard Malofeev until 2009. On December 12, 2010, he completed a 240-hour coaching course in Moscow and received a Pro license.
Tales from the "most colorful figure" of the Russian Championship - 1997, a pupil of Kyiv "Dynamo", an ex-player of the national team of Belarus and St. Petersburg "Zenith"
What is a school Soviet football at its best? This is when a player could be forgiven for everything - disputes with a coach, rudeness, even violations of the regime - except for cowardice and indifference on the field, Sergey recalled in an interview with BUSINESS Online, a well-known football player in the past, and now the coach of the PFL Anzhi-Junior club from Zelenodolsk Sergey Gerasimets. He also talked about how Mutko gave him washing machine, about a goal against Hiddink's team, as well as about "Peter", in which money was laundered.
"LOBANOVSKY DIDN'T FORGIVE COANY"
- Sergey Grigoryevich, after not the most successful start, many people criticize the Kazan "Rubin". How do you play the team?
- What's happened good team? This is a close-knit team of players and coaching staff. When there is such cohesion, then the result will come. Kurban Berdyev is now engaged in such rallying in Rubin. Before that, he did the same in Rostov. He is not now engaged in staging some kind of combination game, but is trying to create a single mechanism that would represent a club, coaching staff and players.
- Have you met Berdyev on the field?
- No. But as a footballer, I remember him. Small defensive midfielder. Shaggy and bald at the same time.
- Shaggy and bald at the same time. This is an exact description of the football player Sergei Gerasimets of the 90s.
- That's right, you say. By the way, Igor Shalimov looked the same way. Coaches are all somewhat similar to each other. As for my shaggy hair combined with a receding hairline, in 1997 Sport Express recognized me as "the most colorful figure in the championship." As for the nickname, in Dynamo Kiev they called me Zolik. And not only I had such a nickname, but also Andrei Bal.
- You were in the Dynamo Kyiv system during the time of Valery Lobanovsky. What did he remember?
- The fact that he never forgave cowardice on the field. Yura Mikolaenko was in the double “Dynamo”, together we were called up to the junior team of the USSR. Once in a match, he jumped twice, moving away from the joints - for this he was sent to serve in military unit. We are sitting in the locker room of the Dynamo stadium, the most comfortable stadium in the world, during the break of the match, and suddenly we hear footsteps, like a harbinger of an impending threat. The door opens, Valery Lobanovsky is standing. He never went into our dressing room at all, but here he made an exception. He went in, looked around with his eyes and said to our coach Mikhail Fomenko: “Mikolaenko - to the unit!”.
- In other words, would Lobanovsky also kick out David Beckham, who left the joint in the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, allowing the Brazilians to carry out a scoring counterattack?
- Yes. Beckham, having jumped then, punished his entire football nation. If he had gone through the “Lobanovsky school”, in which everyone could forgive: disputes with the coach, rudeness, even violations of the regime, but not cowardice and indifference, he would not have jumped.
I can call Lobanovsky a great organizer, and on this path there is no one to put above him. Unless Kurban Berdyev can now be compared with him in this field of activity in terms of the level of organization, in terms of approach to business.
Kurban Berdyev Photo: Epsilon / gettyimages.ru
"COACHES CALLED KIEV PEOPLE" MOMMY'S SONS"
- You spoke about violations of the regime. I immediately recall a case egregious for the USSR when, after a fight in a restaurant, Dynamo footballer Grigory Pasichny died.
“I wasn't at the wedding where he was killed, I was only at the funeral. All Dynamo were there - terrible memories. It was a serious psychological blow to me and to our teammates. As for subsequent punishments, I can’t say anything here, since I myself have never been a violator of the regime, I tried alcohol closer to 30 years. For me this was not a problem.
- Dynamo pupil Pasichny did not make it to his native team, you could not play there, Oleg Taran eventually left for Dnipro. Why were there so few pupils of the Dynamo school in the main team of the native team?
- I'll start with the fact that the competition for getting into the base of Dynamo was fierce. All the best who were in Ukraine were invited to the team. And the best then were in abundance. In those years, the USSR national team was ranked second in the world, now Russia has dropped to 63rd place. Remove the limit now, 15-20 sensible football players with a Russian passport will enter the field for all championship teams. Going back to those times, we used to organize real battles for survival during double training. But I note that the coaches of the double gave preference to pupils from other boarding schools, since they themselves were for the most part visitors. And we, the people of Kiev, were called "mama's sons." And how could the same Taran get into the squad if Oleg Blokhin was. A little earlier there was Vladimir Onishchenko, then Igor Belanov. At the same time, Taran was, as they say, a wayward, proud football player, but he found a place for himself in Dnipro, won two championships with him Soviet Union.
We had to go through blood, sweat and suffering just to get to the double. ( Laughs.) Let me give as an example Lesha Mikhailichenko, who gave whole performances at each double match and got into the base at the age of 23. Vasya Rats was in the reserve team for 7 years. But Taran did not want to endure.
— In those years Soviet teams your age took part in the home championships of Europe twice - U-18 (1984) and U-20 (1985). There were almost no Kyivans in those teams, including you. Why?
- We were involved in the team of Boris Ignatiev with the same Mikolaenko, whom I already spoke about. Then the team, for some unknown reason, was headed by Sergei Mosyagin. Something went wrong with the guys with him. I remember that on one of the trips in Romania we lost twice. True, there the refereeing was such that our Georgian Soso Chedia slapped the referee on the fifth point. Nevertheless, the guys had a plan to remove Mosyagin, until Ignatiev intervened and calmed the rioters. As for me specifically, I can assume that I did not suit the coaching staff. Although I was very upset, I still have the jersey of that USSR national team at home. But 1984 turned out to be rich in events for me: they didn’t take me to the national team and from the double of Kyiv they sent me to the second league, to the farm club, as they would call it now. I was 18 at the time, and you have no idea how upset I was then.
"KOLOTOV WAS REMEMBERED AS A VERY MODEST PERSON"
- Why? You have been given a chance to move from a doubles tournament to real men's football, where people earn money.
“I didn’t realize all this at the time. I had to move not far, Irpen is a suburb of Kyiv. The team was coached by Victor Kanevsky, who had a great influence on my future career. If in Kyiv I felt like a cog, I was obliged to follow any instructions, then Kanevsky built the game through me. He saw that I could play ahead, sharpen, give, score, and then he covered the zone under me with a defender, and he untied my hands - create! A year and a half later, I received offers from all Ukrainian Premier League clubs, including my native Dynamo! Only it was the last to invite me, when I had already managed to agree with Shakhtar Donetsk.
But I realized all this later. And at the time of the translation - understand, I was Dynamo's flesh and blood. We lived half a kilometer from the republican stadium, and all my childhood was spent there, I was at Dynamo matches, I was a fan of the team that was the strongest in Europe in the mid-70s. By the way, having moved to Zelenodolsk, I was very surprised to learn that one of the idols of my childhood, Viktor Kolotov, was a pupil of local football. I even played for some time under his leadership: for example, we won the 1986 Spartakiad.
- How do you remember Kolotov?
- Very modest in everyday life: believe me, this is a rare quality that distinguished the idols of our childhood, which we then had to deal with in life. I even managed to play with him for the championship of Kyiv, but he was already finishing, and I was starting my career. On the football field, he was remembered as a very selfless person, with a fighting character, just like that, people did not become captains of Dynamo Kyiv in those years.
— Why did you choose Shakhtar?
— It was influenced by the fact that at that time Shakhtar was coached by Oleg Bazilevich, who worked in Kyiv in the mid-70s together with Lobanovsky.
— You played in Shakhtar's reserve team with Viktor Onopko. What was he like when he was 17 - 19 years old?
- We were settled in the same room when he just moved to Donetsk. Our birthdays are almost on the same day. I saw in him amazing human qualities and great reliability in every sense. This is an ultra-reliable player on whom the coach could rely 100 percent.
Initially, I liked everything in Donetsk, but then Anatoly Konkov replaced Bazilevich. It was very sad. As much as he was a great player, I was so disappointed with the work under his leadership. Konkov was engaged only in his person, he drank, walked, but did not work. I considered being under his leadership a waste of time. And I had to leave there without having any invitations. It was very difficult in everyday life, I was given a three-room apartment in Donetsk, my first son Sergei had just been born. But I gave up on everything and left.
- Meanwhile, you received an offer from the Georgian Guria. The team was taken care of by the brother of Eduard Shevardnadze himself. The same Khlus said that he was paid 3,000 rubles there for matches in the first league.
- That's pretty much how it was. But not with me. When I returned from Donetsk to Kyiv, Mikhail Fomenko invited me and Misha Olifirenko, who had previously played in Dynamo, to talk. He headed Guria and formed a squad of players he knew who could definitely help in the season. Fomenko explained the football tasks, and for the rest, he said, other people would talk. Personally, a very fat Georgian drove up to me in a black Volga, who began to talk about the conditions with a big accent: “From two six hundred thousand rubles to three four hundred.” Chocolate, by the standards of the USSR. There were five thousand inhabitants there, and the stadium for 30 thousand was the first purely football stadium in the USSR, without any athletics tracks. In the same Dynamo Minsk, where I eventually left, there were 250 rubles of salary plus a fifty-fifty bonus for the victory. But I chose Minsk because I set priorities for myself. Then the main thing for me was to play major league. And at the very last moment, I waited for an offer from Eduard Malofeev.
"BYSHOVETS - THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER"
- A lot was written about Eduard Vasilyevich as a man who "burned hearts with a verb." Was he already a deeply religious person then?
“Not to the extent that it is now. Overall, I consider myself lucky in football life in that he played under the guidance of two outstanding coaches, and then helped them in coaching. These are Malofeev, for whom I worked at the headquarters of Dynamo St. Petersburg, and Anatoly Byshovets, for whom I played at Zenit and helped him at the headquarters of Tom and Lokomotiv. I was lucky that I could analyze their philosophy, coaching approaches. Eduard Vasilyevich - yes, he lit hearts.
- But he could not repeat the success of 1982, when he became the champion with Dynamo Minsk.
- It seems to me that he was hindered by a problem that everyone is well aware of in football world. As a football specialist, I consider Malofeev to be higher than Lobanovsky, and Morozov, and Byshovets, which is why I learned the most from the practice of Eduard Vasilyevich in coaching. Byshovets is a great philosopher, a person who has been given the opportunity to build relationships with the leadership. Malofeev is a coach, although at the same time he was a very weak organizer.
- Your words are indirectly proven by the history of 1986, when Malofeev led the national team to the World Cup, and Lobanovsky took it to Mexico. Was this decision the right one?
- Of course not. What happened should be put in reproach to our then head of the federation, Vyacheslav Koloskov, who did not defend the working coach. Of course, in the wake of the victory of Dynamo Kyiv in the Cup Winners' Cup and the invitation of 13 players from there to the national team, there was a temptation to succumb to this replacement. But it was necessary to understand, in my opinion, why the players in the club shine, but in the national team they play neither shaky nor rolls. As a result, the team, which could reach the finals, lost in the 1/8 finals to Belgium.
- But we can also say that, having started coaching at the World Championships, Lobanovsky laid the foundation for the team that came second at the 1988 European Championships. No?
- But I agree with this. It happens in life when today's defeat, with its competent understanding, turns into tomorrow's victory. But I'm still a supporter of the fact that there should be no revolutions in football. But, alas, the figure of Malofeev was not supported, there was no unity around him, the players who looked brilliant in the club represented a miserable sight in the ranks of the national team - they returned to the club and again gave out enchanting games. It turns out that the players shared for themselves the importance of playing for the club and the national team, although I personally do not support this approach.
“CHAIRS FLYED IN THE LOCKER ROOM IN BALTIKA”
- You met the collapse of the Union in Minsk.
- It should be noted that I really liked Minsk, I settled there, got an apartment, a car, made friends, felt very comfortable, this is a beautiful country with sincere people. But I did not initially plan to play in the Belarusian championship, because of the level of competition for Dynamo Minsk, which faced several teams from the second league. I started to deal with the issues of returning to Kyiv, but we won the Belarusian championship and got a chance to play in the Champions Cup, and the rivals were the famous Werder Bremen with Otto Rehhagel at the head. For me, this confrontation was very tempting. In the end, I do not regret that I did not leave Minsk. We played 1:1 at home, I made an assist to Valya Belkevich, in Germany we lost 2:5, not at all in the game in which, by the way, I scored. The money earned would eventually be spent, but this remained in the memory, this is not forgotten. After this season, I was again invited to Kyiv, but I chose an offer from Israel, leaving for the local Bnei Yehuda. From there I returned to the Russian Championship, to Baltika.
- As they invited at a time when there were no agents, the Internet, cell phones, and people forgot quickly enough, disappearing from the social circle.
- I was invited there by Leonid Tkachenko. Baltika offered very good financial conditions, and the city itself was ready for big football. As evidence: we decided to carry out friendly match with Vilnius Zalgiris on March 1. 30 thousand spectators came to the local stadium! The motto of the team, which was led by Leonid Tkachenko, was the same: "Went out on the field - die!" In the locker room after the games and glasses, and chairs, and even armchairs flew. By and large, this is the same principle as that of Lobanovsky, only conveyed to the addressee in a slightly different way ( laughs). Nevertheless, we had an amazing team there, a great team, they still remember me in Kaliningrad, despite the fact that I played a little more than a dozen matches for Baltika. Grateful to this city for the opportunity to stand on my feet.
"MY GOAL HELPED THE HIDDINK TEAM BEAT"
- You moved to the Russian championship already as a player of the Belarus national team. How were you persuaded to play for her?
- For me, Ukraine was and remains my homeland, but there were no proposals from the football team. Apparently, the football chaos, which then swallowed up our whole world, prevented the local leadership from understanding what was happening around, and it’s not customary to ask for the national team on your own. At any rate, I couldn't imagine it. And by that time the Belarusian national team had begun to prepare for its debut official tournament, qualifying tournament Euro 1996. I missed the first training camp, hoping for a call from Ukraine, and I came to the second camp because I wanted to play on international level. Initially, the Belarusian national team was coached by Mikhail Vergeenko. He trusted me, and this is the most important thing for me in my relationship with the coach. 30 matches in the national team in official tournaments is a significant part of my career. Under his leadership, I worked in Dynamo Minsk, then in the national team, and I can call these years one of the best.
- No wonder you were recognized as the best football player of Belarus in 1993.
- Then there was complete pleasure from football, and it is very difficult to come to such a feeling. As for the national team, the most memorable was the match in 1995 with the Dutch national team, which was then coached by Guus Hiddink. We won at home 1:0.
Thanks to your goal. Did you really hit the goal from such an acute angle then?
- Do you want me to say in 20 years that I did the pass then ?! Yes, the angle was sharp, but not zero, just in dynamics it might seem that it was impossible to score. In general, the counterattack turned out to be a feast for the eyes, we left the defense after the set piece, and with Pavel Kachuro in two passes we broke the Dutch defense. The prehistory of this game is such that several leaders of the national team did not come to it, in particular, Sergey Aleinikov, Yuri Shukanov. We had 7 players from the Belarusian championship in our squad. And they have about the same number from Ajax, who just won the European Cup. Of course, before the game we were all buried in predictions. By this time, our team was already coached by Sergei Borovsky, and he is a very strong tactician, and he competently built the game. The same Mark Overmars was guarded on the flank by Sergey Gurenko, who did not allow the Dutchman to do anything.
“WE TURNED ZENIT FROM A FOOTBALL PERIPHERE INTO A TOP CLUB”
- You completed your playing career at Zenit, and there were more Ukrainians than St. Petersburg.
- Let's count: I, Vernidub, Gorshkov, Popov, Popovich, Lebed, Svistunov. St. Petersburg youth was: Berezovsky, Igonin, Zazulin, Kondrashov, Panov, Anatoly and Dmitry Davydov - a unique case when father and son played in the same squad. The team was unbalanced and was just making connections. For the first game with Nizhny Novgorod Barely five thousand fans came. I went there to Byshovets, whom I had known since childhood. I knew that where Anatoly Fedorovich was, there was order. This time I asked for it, although everything went well for me in Kaliningrad.
St. Petersburg has a special caste of fans, which I immediately felt. These are people who understand football, the best in Russia. The city itself is beautiful, after moving to free time I arranged excursions for myself in order to get to know better one of the most beautiful cities in the world, in which I was lucky enough to stay to live. And Byshovets made a team from an unbalanced composition, which a spectator went to by the end of the year. In 1998, the stadium was already full when we were in the lead, making a splash at the beginning of the championship. In just six months, St. Petersburg has turned from a “football periphery” into a top city.
- How did the St. Petersburg audience fall in love with a team in which the backbone was made up of “come in large numbers”?
- Because we gave ourselves without a trace, you can’t deceive the public in this regard. Although, I remember, your colleagues often asked me provocative questions. Among other things, Gennady Orlov was interested in: “Why do you play here with special zeal?” I answered that even when playing in the yard I would do it with special zeal. My parents are hard workers, and football education, laid down in childhood, did not allow me not to give all my best on the field.
"MUTKO GIVED A WASHING MACHINE TO MY FAMILY"
- Almost at the same time as you football career started Vitaly Mutko, who became the president of Zenit. What can you say about Vitaly Leontyevich's first steps in the club?
— I'll start with a little history. When I first moved to Zenit, I had twins. After the flight from Kaliningrad, the employees of the Zenit club took me to the base, and my wife to the maternity hospital. When I played my debut match against Lokomotiv, my wife gave birth. I was told about this during the break of the match.
- A beautiful end to this story would be if you put a double against Loko in the second half.
- I had chances, but I didn't score, and we played on zero, which was a great achievement. And I put it in the next game with Nizhny Novgorod, it didn't rust behind me. And Vitaly Leontievich gave us a washing machine.
- Pavel Sadyrin said about Alexander Panov: "He was such a shket, he fell from a glass." What made Panov one of the leaders of the Russian team in 1999?
- About Sasha, with whom I played at Zenit, I will say that he was such a "difficult teenager." But there are difficult ones, which are secretive, and he is all at a glance, very sincere. What he thinks, he says. I think that in big football player it was turned by work with Byshovets. For many, the worldview turned upside down, for the same Igonin, Kondrashov, when little needed guys became candidates for the national team. Panov had a natural quality - speed. I rarely encountered such runners.
— For example, your teammate at Dynamo Minsk in the 80s, Valery Velichko.
- Valery, nicknamed the Horse, could go far, but he had more laziness than speed. Who realized himself from the Soviet era is Igor Belanov. So Panov made the most of his speed and dribbling, delivered a shot, remembering doubles in the final of the Cup of Russia - 1999 and the match with the French team (3:2). Playing in the same team with Panov, I only had to send the ball behind the backs of the defenders, and Sasha was already rushing there and was the first on the ball.
“IN “LOKOMOTIV” THERE WAS DISTRESS BETWEEN PLAYERS AND COACHES”
- Talking about your coaching career, then, probably, it is possible to single out the work in coaching staff Lokomotiv with whom you won the Russian Cup.
- We won the trophy, but I got more pleasure from working in Tomsk in 2005. Both there and at Loko, I worked in the coaching staff of Byshovets. We finished eighth, the attitude towards us was at the level, the whole Siberia worked for the team, and we enjoyed the work. I can't say the same about Lokomotiv. I still don’t understand who came up with the idea to put Yuri Semin and Byshovets in the club’s leadership - antipodes who hate each other. Initially, it was clear that nothing good would come of this. And so it happened. There was no order in Lokomotiv, if it were, we would have become champions. We took away four points from the then champion of Zenit, from silver medalist Spartak won four games in the season - in the championship and the Cup, while they themselves were left without medals.
There was a rift between coaches and players. The players treated us ugly. As a result, each visit to Bakovka was given to me with great difficulty. Although we won the trophy in the season, human relations are more important than it. Not without reason, when Leonid Slutsky was asked what the job of a coach is, he answered that it was in relationship management. When they are not adjusted, it is not possible to think about the matter in the proper measure.
- How can you characterize your work as the head coach of the Kazakh club "Okzhetpes"?
- It was good school survival, which I passed in a team that did not have any conditions. I also remember that such an ugly refereeing as in Kazakhstan, I personally have not seen anywhere else. They just "kill". I remember Kazakhstan very much for its diversity, where the north and south of the country are, in fact, two completely different regions. In the north, where I lived in the Akmola region, there are beautiful places, blue lakes, and the south of Kazakhstan is a continuous steppe, along which camels walk and falling off stages of space rockets fall from the sky. Then I went to Okzhetpes for the second time and ran into the president of the club, who turned out to be a scoundrel. He handed over games together with the players, and in such a case it is simply impossible to manage the team.
“There are SO MANY CRAFTS IN FOOTBALL THAT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET OUT”
- You worked in St. Petersburg "Dynamo". Is this the same team that either dies, then immediately revives?
- That's it. In St. Petersburg there is a problem of relationships in football, which are formulated in the slogan "One city - one team." Why this slogan is in operation, I cannot understand. I was not invited to the club where I played, but I had to work hard in other St. Petersburg teams. But there are so many crooks that it is very difficult to get through. As for Dynamo, the president of the team, Sergei Amelin, made a bet on the wrong candidate in the gubernatorial elections, and after the victory of his opponent, the Dynamo began to put spokes in the wheels.
- You also worked in such teams as "Peter" and "Tosno". What was there?
- "Peter" is something fleeting when the president of the club was laundering money. The episode killed me when we were sent to a training camp in Finland, where they rented a house in which we had to live non-stop, while not training. They promised to feed us, and we just had to spend three weeks together. For what? Why?
As for Tosno, this is a small regional center, I worked in a youth team. We achieved excellent results, but some non-football moments intervened, and they refused my services. The team has now entered the Premier League, although the meaning of its existence, when there is nothing, up to its own dressing room at the stadium, is not entirely clear to me. Football players practically do not appear in Tosno, they rent apartments in St. Petersburg, train at the stadium " New arena"They don't have anything. It has long been possible to build a stadium, develop your own football school but when it doesn't, you wonder how long it will last.
— But, excuse me, the same question can be asked about Anji-Junior. Or not?
- Absolutely the right question. Such a distrustful attitude towards us is felt, most of all because of the prefix "Anji", which symbolizes Dagestan. Why are we here, what do we want? I will answer that we came here to develop football, we have a young team, which is a symbiosis of pupils from St. Petersburg, Tatarstan and Dagestan football. Five people came with me from the Junior team, which I led in St. Petersburg, in whom I am absolutely sure. Tatarstan pupils are necessary for local fans to come to us, start worrying about us, especially since the local land is not deprived of football talents. The example of Artur Gilyazetdinov, an unknown boy, confirms my thesis. I saw him at the first training session, he worked with burning eyes. I remembered the words of Konstantin Beskov about Sergei Rodionov and Fyodor Cherenkov: “Looking at their work, I want to live.” The same can be repeated about Artur and many guys from our team. And I will try to convey to them all the experience, parts of which I shared with you in an interview.
Date of Birth: November 13, 1965
Place of Birth: Kyiv
Playing career: Dynamo (Irpin) - 1984 - 1986; Shakhtar (Donetsk) - 1986 - 1988; Dynamo (Minsk) - 1988 - 1993; "Bnei Yehuda" (Israel) - 1993 - 1996; Baltika (Kaliningrad) - 1997; Zenit (St. Petersburg) - 1997 - 1999; "Kaunas" (Lithuania) - 1999; "Torpedo-MAZ" (Minsk) - 2001/2002.
Achievements: winner of the Cup of Russia - 1999, best football player Belarus-1993. He played 25 matches for the national team of Belarus.
Head coach career: Severstal (Cherepovets) - 2004, Okzhetpes (Kokchetav) - 2006, 2009/2010; "Tosno-M" - 2014/15. Since 2016, he has been the head coach of Anji-Junior (Zelenodolsk).
Trainer career: Tom (Tomsk) - 2005, Lokomotiv (Moscow) - 2008, Dynamo (St. Petersburg) - 2008/2009.
Achievements: winner of the Cup of Russia - 2007.
