Changed the "stable"

Why CSKA was left without coaches

Volunteers. In May 2008, Vyacheslav Bykov and Igor Zakharkin led the Russian national hockey team to the gold medals of the World Cup. In April 2009, they announced the departure from CSKA, in which they worked together for five years. The coaches say this step, they went in order to prepare for the Olympics in Vancouver, which will begin in eight months

It seemed that this would not happen for a long time. After all, what is work in the club for a coach? Firstly, employment for 10 months a year, and secondly, a stable salary. Labor in the national team-it, of course, is very honored, but it is paid much worse and is needed five times a year, for the four stages of the European hockey tour (one and a half weeks in November, December, February and April) and one world championship (end of April-mid-May).

And no one has left the club to the national team himself. If only because these two positions can be combined. Vyacheslav Bykov and Igor Zakharkin were the first. Vancouver, they say, is close. In August, the collection for Russian hockey players KHL and the NHL will make, in the fall or winter they will fly over the ocean for a month or two, in order to see the state of the Enhaelovsky candidates for the national team with their own eyes.

The punctured ceiling won-in Canada and Canada-the gold of the 2008 World Cup was the first for Russia for fifteen years. If they forgot, it happened on the night of May 19-then many did not sleep well because of the fireworks under the windows. And perhaps you remember the picture of the Kremlin reception of the national team with the president, where the striker Alexander Ovechkin came in the slippers on the barefoot leg. That spring, Russian hockey generally smiled gloriously.

Two months passed after Quebec, and Vyacheslav Bykov began to cook again for the CSKA season. Already in the first training, he dropped a few words that his team is unlikely to fight for medals. Eight months later, the Army in the quarterfinals of the playoffs beats Dynamo. 14: 2 - this will be the total account of three matches. The defeat is terrible, but Bykov will not curse the judges. He will not notice thoughtfully that he was unlucky. He will say: "This is our level."

CSKA is a really pretty modest Clus Club. In finances, he loses to many of those who went around the KHL regular championship table (the army team finished fourth, and 24 teams in the league). A good player in CSKA can attract, in fact, two factors - Moscow and the proximity to the trainers of the national team. But there is no need to go to CSKA to Bykov to the superstar, because Bykov will call the superstar to the national team and from Kazan.

Bykov and Zakharkin in CSKA were five years old, and during this time once they even managed to get to the semifinals. Then there was a feeling that in your eyes the ceiling was piercing his head.

To stay in the army club for them was, of course, empty. It can afford to work for eight months to fly out in the quarterfinals, if there is a hope that next season there will be at least a chance to go to the semifinals. But the fact of the matter is that the financing of CSKA will remain the same, the level of players, of course, too. And the team is waiting for a heroic departure from a quarter of the finals again.

And that’s why Bykov with Zakharkin left.

We need the way they presented their decision, raised a lot of questions. This happened after the training of the national team in Novogorsk. There were nine hockey players of the army club. And all nine about the decision of their coaches, whom they saw an hour ago, learned from journalists. Bykov was asked why they informed about their decision primarily to reporters, not hockey players. The coach was somehow even at a loss.

- Because ... we do not think that this is right. It would be unprofessional to escalate some panic among the players.

You must admit that in this formulation you can in arbitrary order change the words in places - without prejudice to the meaning, because there is a little sense there. This, of course, from surprise, blurted out, because the players learned about Bykov’s statement twenty minutes after it was done. But they learned from journalists, not from Bykov. However, the leadership of CSKA and Victor himself

Tikhonov, who was looking for Bykov five years ago in Switzerland, received information from the TV. When a person at a personal meeting is silent about his decision regarding you, but after half an hour he reports him from the TV screen - is it, or something, “not to escalate panic”?

So far, few can believe in the selflessness of the act of coaches. Well, it is strange to imagine a person who will refuse a club salary of half a million dollars a year for a year and will live only for a salary from the Russian hockey federation ($ 390 thousand). Therefore, Bykova and Zakharkina are now all together in Ufa thanks to the phrase: “We can combine work in the national team and the club if the club is basic for the national team.” Such a club in Ufa - and he is without a coach.

KHL President Alexander Medvedev, however, recalled: “Bykov and Zakharkin, as an exception, was allowed to combine work in CSKA and the national team. Do not forget that the next season is Olympic, it requires a special mode of operation. My opinion: to combine activities in the national team and in the club, and even more so to declare some club with the base is not the best option. ”

In a good way, to create a special fund for this business-and pay the salary of the national team from it. Here in football, Gusa Hiddinka pays the salary of the National Academy of Football (NAF). Coaches Bykov and Zakharkin receive money from the Russian hockey federation. Although some nah would not have prevented them.