Akron Almighty

The club from the Samara region knocked out the Russian Cup from the draw - 2023 Torpedo, Lokomotiv, Dynamo and Spartak. What kind of team is this?

Just five years ago, no Acron existed. Rather, there was Akron Holding-an industrial-metallurgical association. He founded his businessman Pavel Morozov. The personality is very remarkable. He also discovered a dashing entrepreneurial talent in himself. He earned his first money, selling vouchers and checks of famous pyramids-“Lords” and “Hooper Invest”. True, MMM, where Morozov then invested all the profit, left it without pants.

However, the guy was only excited. He decided to engage in the sale of spare parts in the Togliatti Zhelezka market and quickly corrected his financial affairs. Well, then everything developed rapidly. Buying and sales of ferrous and non -ferrous metals allowed Morozov to register Akron Plus company, and then open a processing enterprise at this base. At the moment, a powerful holding specializes in the disposal of cars, railway wagons and vessels, produces cable and conductive products.

And this serious comrade always loved football. But he did not just love, but dreamed of creating his team. Inspired by the ideas of Sergei Galitsky, the owner of Krasnodar, Morozov founded an amateur team who dusted in the third, unprofessional division. Well, then, luck smiled at the third place in the competition of the "Teapots" in 2018, which took third place in the competition. The Chemist-August football club was unable to get a license to participate in the PFL, and Akron rose to the level higher. And unexpectedly for many, he won the tournament on the move and found himself in the FNL (first league). However, in a truly serious debut season, Togliatti did not make sure. And they had to fly back to the PFL. But the case helped again. And already in the person of Tambov, who, due to material problems, took self-setting up, thereby allowing Acron to keep a place in League number one, where the club was fixed, taking the ninth place in the last championship.

This year, the club even set a high goal-access to the Premier League. But the start did not set (the penultimate place after eight rounds), and the coach of Vitaly Panov was replaced by Evgenia Kaleshin, who had previously drove the Kaliningrad Baltika. He straightened the situation (now Akron is on the 13th line and actually secured himself from departure), but no one, of course, expected that the team, aparting in the three thousandth stadium in Zhigulevsk, would turn out to be a thunderstorm of authorities in the second most important Russian tournament.

By the way, it’s funny that in Togliatti, where the club is legally registered, he had no place. The city authorities did not want to let the newly-made “gang” into the “Trud” arena, where athletes are engaged in, and Akron's 18,000th Torpedo stadium would have to be divided with Lada and the Konolov Academy, which would be inconvenient for all sports troupes. So it turns out that the club is naughty 20 kilometers from the native monastery ...

However, in the drawing of the Cup, which, by the way, this season is carried out according to a complex scheme (two nets, the group stage, twice as many fights), this is not an obstacle for Acron. He overcame the seven rounds. He cut the wings to the Vladimir Torpedo (1: 0), defeated Peresvet from Domodedov (5: 0), dealt with the once formidable Alania (1: 0). The guys seemed to jump above the roof. And so they will calm down. However, Akron did not think to give up. He moved the metropolitan “torpedo” (2: 0), and then put a barrier before the “locomotive” with Dziuba himself (1: 1, 7: 6 on the penalty).

After the draw, when the Togliatti people went at the next stage of the Dynamo Moscow, they did not hide the white and white joy in the camp: they say that we will overcome the presumptuous upstarts on their site and take the coveted trophy that could not be captured in the last finale in the year. They were glad that they could not score in the Petrovsky Park in 90 minutes to “kids”, and in the series of post -match penalties bleed 1: 4 and thwarted all the anger at journalists. Well, “Spartak”, the current winner of the Cup-2022, will smile and avenge all the sworn friends for the guys, experts decided.

But they smeared Spartak. How!

In the middle of the first half, the goalkeeper of the wolves, who will probably be in one of the Premier League clubs in the next season, reflected the eleven-meter performed by Balda, and at the end of Andres Ponce (41st minute) and Nikita Saltykov (45th minute) upset the goalkeeper Maksimenko and put the entire crystal stadium on their horns. The commentator of the match Roman Naguchev on the air admitted that his ears did not know such a noise ... And the coach of the red-white Guillermo Abaskal simply did not know how to counteract an outsider, whose composition, according to the transfer value, is 13 times cheaper than Spartakovsky!

In the second half, Muscovites rebelled one ball, but this, as you know, was not enough. At 18.20, the whistle of Judge Alexei Amelin recorded the next sensation. The hosts played in the locker room “Sucking Night” (find and watch this video), and the festivities in Zhigulevsk and Togliatti lasted almost until the morning.

In the next round, Akron will meet with Krasnodar, and if it passes it, then it will compete either with the Urals or with CSKA for going to the final of the tournament. Can you imagine what plot the risk of developing?

Although already now Akron has inscribed himself in history. Yes, “Terek”, “Khimki” and Kursk “Avangard” reached the decisive cup battle. And Tosno even raised an honorary crystal vase above his head. However, so many metropolitan monsters had a chance to decompose only Akron. By the way, the gurus of the coaching workshop Kurban Berdyev a couple of years ago in an interview called everyone to take a closer look at the novice specialist Evgeny Kaleshin. And he was right.

It is difficult to say whether the 44-year-old coach will weld, who replaced a dozen teams, a victorious potion, but his principles delight. It was signed by all Western analysts and the paid channels of the PSG, Juventus, Manchester City and Liverpool and tries to virtually look at any trifle from the life of the grads, then to transfer individual moments to Togliatti soil. He considers Russian football as a whole morally outdated, because due to constant pressure on the steering (presidents require instant result), nothing tactically and strategically new appears.

And Kaleshin will finish his wards for the mat in the locker room: the use of one taboo word costs 500 rubles.

In general, I really want to continue the provincial fairy tale. And not even in terms of Victoria in the Cup. And in order for wonderful and interesting guys - from goalkeeper Volkov to midfielder Maxim Palienko - rich clubs did not melt. No matter how pathetic it sounds, but such small teams with a big heart and the right philosophy are needed by fans. And not only, excuse me, local. Watching the legionnaires, after sleeves moving along the lawn in T -shirts with emblems of legendary teams, has already gotten everyone.

Good luck, Akron!