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Donut for the national team
Leonid Slutsky replaced Fabio Capello in the Russian national team. On the Internet weigh his chances and consider the future salary
It is difficult to say why the RFU chose such a lean photo, but the main sports news in Russia sounds like this.
Officially: Leonid Slutsky - head coach of the Russian national team http://t.co/1x7funn85c pic.twitter.com/hcdhm7um3n
- Russian team (@teamrussia) August 7, 2015 A unique shot, on which the new head coach of the Russian national team dreams of someday to become 😏 pic.twitter.com/didiuhesgf
- Sergey akulinin (@s_akulinin) August 7, 2015 Leonid Slutsky and his Russian football team Pic.twitter.com/chfhqnelhvv
- Nicotinka with eyebrows (@yoghikitt) August 7, 2015 The Russian Football Union has decided on the candidate of the new head coach of the Russian national team! pic.twitter.com/8Flvnsqkex
- Sportbox.ru (@sportbox) August 6, 2015Leonid Slutsky , also known in the football environment as Donut and Russian Mourinho, led CSKA for the last six years, having won the Russian championship with him and twice breaking through the Champions League playoffs twice. At the post of coach of the national team, he will replace Fabio Capello, who worked there for three years.
Changing the coach of the football team - the event is far from ordinary. Immediately there were rumors that Slutsky’s candidacy was agreed almost in the Kremlin. Even Dmitry Peskov commented on this - however, in his usual manner:
"I cannot answer this question, I do not have information that the presidential administration had some role," Peskov told reporters.
The Presidential Administration is most likely its leader Sergei Ivanov is a CSKA fan and one of the main lovers of football in the Russian government. His participation in the negotiations was confirmed by Vitaly Mutko himself.
Vitaly Mutko said that Sergey Ivanov participated in Slutsky’s appointment http://t.co/hbgy7qdcf1 pic.twitter.com/jkhxhettl1
- Lifenews (@lifenews_ru) August 7, 2015But Mutko comments on the appointment on the official website of the RFU.
We have repeatedly said that at this stage the national team should be headed by a Russian coach. Given the successful and effective work of Leonid Slutsky in CSKA, I believe that he is the specialist who will be able to fulfill the task of entering the 2016 European Championship. This balanced decision has been agreed with all interested parties and, in my opinion, now looks optimal.
It’s hard to understand why the coach must be Russian. 9 years ago everyone said that the national team must be headed by a foreign specialist, and since then only foreigners led it. One of the attempts to figure out "Kommersant" makes :
Such confidence in the minds of football leaders strengthened after the unsuccessful experience of the last foreign coach of the national team Fabio Capello. Under him, the Russian team for the first time in 12 years entered the World Cup, but at the championship itself in Brazil, the Russians showed a rather faded game, not being able to leave one of the lightest groups. <...>
No less acutely than the fading game of the Russian national team, the salary of Fabio Capello was discussed. According to unofficial information, it amounted to € 8 million a year, and the RFU did not have that kind of money. Debts to the Italian coach and his assistants helped to extinguish Russian entrepreneurs. The most significant assistance, thanks to which it was possible to break the contract with Capello (the penalty was, according to various sources, € 8-15 million), was provided by Alisher Usmanov, who admitted that the RFU 1 billion rubles were allocated for free.
Speaking of salary.
The State Duma is confident in the “moderate” salary of Slutsky in the national team http://t.co/jtovuvi3xh pic.twitter.com/fgwpl94bul
- NTV (@NTVRU) August 7, 2015
The State Duma believes that Slutsky’s salary will be lower than that of Capello http://t.co/sbafabxkxw
- SNOB (@snob_Project) August 7, 2015About the same "Russian News Service" was stated by State Duma deputy Igor Anansky:
Of course, I think that a Russian specialist or a foreigner will have such salaries, if we will ever return to this conversation someday. I don't think there will be such a large salary. The period of large gifts for trainers passed.
Moreover, Egor Kholmogorov approves!
Russian coach is good. Because before that, the successes of the national team were counted from high expectations. Now they will be from the underestimated.
- Egor Holmogorov (@holmogorov) August 7, 2015 That is, in any case, it will be morally good. Any victory will be a joy. And not so: and we pay the cartoons for this?
- Egor Holmogorov (@holmogorov) August 7, 2015Further - more! Apparently, in the next series, Slutsky himself will pay for work in the national team.
Leonid Slutsky will not receive a salary for work in the national team http://t.co/7f5hbzdgmh pic.twitter.com/y6p0axpekg
- RT in Russian (@rt_russian) August 7, 2015"Rain" recalls the political views of the new head coach. They are quite streamlined and soft: Putin does not support Putin in full voice, it evades opposition rhetoric.
Slutsky became the head coach of Russia. This is what he spoke 2 years ago about football and policy https://t.co/hofbscqide pic.twitter.com/dly3waheli
- Rain TV channel (@tvrain) August 7, 2015Sports.ru from the end of July explains why Slutsky’s appointment to the team is bad - read, for example, the posts of Denis Romantov or the editor -in -chief of the siteYuri Dudia . Now the same Dud is trying to find opposite arguments through force:
The main thing you need to know: Slutsky goes to the team of his own free will. People who communicated with him in recent weeks, including about a new job, assure: in communication, Slutsky did not behave at all as a person who goes to hard labor - he did not suffer and did not suffer, he was waiting for his appointment. There is a great temptation to think that he is being led to the national team, but since he is trying to tell the truth, then not only about the rattle of twisting nuts, but also about the roar of a festive salute. The truth is that Slutsky really wanted to in the national team. <...>
Once again: I consider Leonid Slutsky a decision to be erroneous - both for himself and for the national team. But if one of the Russian coaches earned the right to such a mistake, then only he.
Congratulations to Slutsky on the appointment of the head coach of the Russian national football team, although IMHO is not in Pic.twitter.com/k1ssxav3g7
- Sergey Polozov (@polozovs) August 7, 2015But an important detail - Slutsky will lead the team, but will remain at the helm of CSKA.
Leonid Slutsky: I could not refuse to head the national team http://t.co/cta1hqtoxo pic.twitter.com/pzonft5ier
- PFC CSKA Moscow (@PFC_CSKA_MOSCOW) August 7, 2015This is how Slutsky himself comments :
Given the difficult situation in which the national team found himself, I could not abandon the proposal. To lead the national team of your country is a great honor and responsibility. Of course, it will be not easy, but I am grateful for the trust rendered to me. I am also grateful to the PFC CSKA for allowing me to combine. I will make every effort to prepare for the decisive matches of the qualifying cycle of the European 2016 championship, 2016 does not affect the situation in the club.
The combination of coaching in the club and the Russian national team was not very long ago. Ex-President of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov explains why this is bad :
From my point of view, it will not be quite effective. Slutsky simply does not have time to deal with the problems of the national team, ”Koloskov said on the phone. - There are enough of his problems, and, in fact, he will see the players only when CSKA will meet in the Russian championship with a team where there are candidates for the national team, or something will watch on television.
Ex-mentor of the national team Boris Ignatiev , why is it possible :
This is a very difficult burden, the practice of our football showed that many coaches could not do properly. But I agree with the combination due to the fact that throwing the team - the face of our football, which is participating in European competitions - and leave it without a "rider", is not the best way out. This is the most correct choice. Behind Slutsk, it is building work in the team, all regalia of recent years, his interest, methodological filling. As well as his ability to interact with players, knowledge of the tactical nuances of the game.
And the coach of the "Spartak" Alenichev - why still cannot be :
My opinion - it will not benefit. Still, the coach should be focused on working with the national team. We already had an unsuccessful experience of combining, in particular, Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev. Some kind of trainer’s decisions may not be clear to many. Maybe his players will call.
Koloskova and Alenicheva supports such a serious football authority as State Duma deputy Igor Lebedev :
The appointment of Leonid Slutsky to the post of head coach of the Russian national team is a mistake. The combination will not be beneficial to the club or the national team. I think the leadership of CSKA sets the coach of high tasks in the Champions League. Therefore, Slutsky will pay more attention to CSKA. In addition, we can hardly hope for the objectivity of the head coach of the national team when selecting players. Obviously, preference will be given to the "army."
Vasily Makagonov on the website m24.ru , rather, condemns Slutsky’s choice, but recognizes his place in Russian football:
They love to joke over Slutsky. Vasily Berezutsky watered it with water after a successful match. There are legends about his campaigns in McDonald's. Rosstat is just right to calculate the number of benches and armchairs, torn by CSKA coach from fasteners during the responsible matches. But, despite all the jokes, let's honestly admit, Slutsky - the coach is very good. Perhaps the most eminent of those domestic experts who are now headed by Premier League clubs.
Championat.com recalls cases of replacing trainers along the qualifying cycle and tries to integrate Slutsky’s purpose in this series:
Leonid Viktorovich became the coach of the national team with the shortest professional career of the player. But it was not without reason that he was nicknamed the Russian Mourinh - at the time of appointment to post No. 1 in the country, Slutsky is a two -time champion of Russia. More from domestic specialists in a similar role at the time of the first purpose was only at Romantsev.
In fact, in the national team there is a replacement of one figure with an almost complete opposite. If the chapel was tough, cold, distance, inflexible and despotistical, then Slutsky appears to be softer, emotional, sociable, tactically diversified and liberal. But at the same time, the main calculation is not at all in the replacement of the whip with the gingerbread. Firstly, Slutsky is too versatile to reduce his characteristics to one point, and secondly now, first of all, you need to establish a connection inside the group, make our players feel one with the coaching staff, feel a new psychological impetus-as you like. And Slutsky, capable of warming up and reloading the command engine, remaining within the framework of psychology mobilized for serious work, is now suitable for such work as no one.
By the way, about other coaches - "Sport -Express" gathered together photos of Slutsky with his predecessors: Romantsev, Semin, Hiddin, lawyer, Capello. There is not everything - there is no, for example, another famous coach of CSKA Valery Gazzaev . By the way, they almost forgot - Valery Georgievich is also against the combination of posts in the club and the national team.
Another photo gallery in SE illustrates the stages of Slutsky’s coaching career. Finally, in the same place - the column of the commentator Roman Trushechkin :
In this situation, the candidate for the coaches of the national team who was eager for it should have scared. Because such a person would certainly promise us to work better than Fabio Capello. Everyone in the country is now sure that the Italian acted somehow wrong, but the coach of the national team is not everyone. And the team is not the situation that can be corrected by clicking the fingers. But there is no time for a deep reconstruction, especially with a coach, who, apparently, is not yet ready to contact the national team for a long time.
In Slutsky’s career, the moment is unique in complexity and responsibility. The moment of maximum concentration and short jerk. Yes, Leonid Viktorovich is put in a position where refusal is impossible. But the reverse side of the current doubts and omissions is the awareness of the fullness of responsibility that will be to take on. "I must do" does not mean "badly." Slutsky is too devoted to football to work half -heartedly and refer to the fact that he was not eager for the national team.
Alexei Durnovo calls six factors that complicate Slutsky's work in the national team. Here are just one of them:
You need to endure with Slutsky. Moreover, sometimes to endure for a long time. His two champions with CSKA were preceded by colossal failures. In 2012, CSKA lost to the Swedish “AIK” in the European League, and Slutsky was asked right at the post-match press conference if he was about to resign in the evening. In the spring, the club became the champion. In 2013, CSKA failed the first half of the championship and the Champions League group. And next spring, the team again won the championship, giving out a fantastic series of victories after the winter break. The President of CSKA Evgeny Giner had patience. The experience of recent years shows that the leadership of the RFU does not have it. One misfire of the national team, and the coach is already trying to lynch. Both players and mentor are driven into such a psychological hole from which they can’t get out. That is, you can get out, but with us this is done only by dismissal.
The observer of "Soviet sports" Yuri Tsybanev shares his supervision - Slutsky in CSKA is easier with legionnaires than with Russian players:
In the club practice of Slutsky, an attentive eye will celebrate one extremely alarming part. Almost unique - and not at all to the operational transfer of L.V. To the national team!
So. Soon six years as Slutsky has been engaged in the CSKA team. And for such a thorough working segment (another scientist will be enough for several discoveries, laboratory confirmed!) Leonid Viktorovich did not introduce a single (!) Russian player new to the team or for the coach himself - by exposing him, of course, coaching. Formally, there is such a player. This is Kirill Nababkin of 2010 by mastering in the CSKA team (also pretty long ago). But this comrade was tested by Slutsky in previous work. And in order to adapt someone to the level of CSKA with fresh coaching effort-there was no.
The farther, the more details. It turns out that Slutsky should already withdraw the team in the ten strongest teams in the world!
Mutko told what tasks are facing Slutsky. It turns out that it is not enough to go to Euro-16. http://t.co/iuntztaaba pic.twitter.com/at09bfta48
- Sports.ru (@sportsru) August 7, 2015Skeptics, of course, are enough.
Obviously, just like that for the beautiful eyes of the LVS they would not let go and all the days there was a bargain, the question is - what is the price.
- Vasily Konov (39+) (@vasilykonov) August 6, 2015 Nothing good, in my opinion, will not work with this, I think CSKA will suffer the most.
- Vasily Konov (39+) (@vasilykonov) August 6, 2015 I am very sorry that it happened. Honestly, I don't give a damn about the national team, but CSKA is sorry. I do not consider Slutsky a great and even outstanding coach, but he worked well with the club, he achieved something in very difficult and constrained conditions and did not cry, did not fight in hysteria, like some kind of villas-beash, who has no financial problems and restrictions.
Now the whole khan. Including the career of Slutsky himself. She was also ruined in the root at the most inopportune moment.
Was there another option? Of course it was. The national team had to put a beard and there was no doubt about anything. He knows these Buratin even better than Slutsky, and he has no less experience. Worse would not have happened. Moreover, there is still nowhere worse.
“Russian Mourinho” so far in its work was remembered only by two selected champions that Zenit accidentally dropped, and the “Terek” - “Wings of the Soviets” by the match. The prospects of this very soft person and not the best motivator are extremely doubtful. Especially during the period when the national team awaits four matches in which 12 points need to be recruited. Moreover, two of these matches are against the Swedes and Montenegrins.
The most sharp comment , perhaps, will write down on the expense of the ex-player of the national team Alexander Mostovoy :
I have already said that this is nonsense. Now Slutsky’s surname is hearing. And who is he really? Of course, he took two championships from CSKA, but the “army” is not Amkar and not “Wings of the Soviets”. Perhaps if he won with these teams, I would also say that there is something in this coach, and so ... In addition to Slutsky, I can name at least 15-20 people who can also work in our national team.
"Medusa" collects Pro et Contra arguments for an unprepared reader.
But what awaits Leonid Slutsky in the national team, even readers who are prepared - the audience of the country's chief sports site cannot accurately predict.
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Ivan Belyaev
Social Networks Editor Radio Liberty