How Fedor Smolov from the main football hope of Russia turned into an outcast. There were enough several weeks

Through a deep crisis Fedor Smolov was already passing

In the first six seasons in adult football, striker Fedor Smolov scored six goals, while receiving good money and leading social life. The fans stopped even laughing at him - the player's career looked doomed. However, the football player made almost incredible: in 2014 he left Dynamo for rent to Yekaterinburg Ural, agreed to lower the salary two and a half times - and scored 8 goals in 22 games. After that, Smolov moved to Krasnodar Sergey Galitsky. His statistics in the club are 53 goals in 74 matches.

In the past two years, Smolov has been considered the main Russian striker

Regularly scoring behind the club, Smolov often went into the starting lineup of the Russian national team and by 2018 and scored 11 goals in 28 games for it - it was obvious that it was he who would be released in the starting lineup at the home championship. Anxiety was caused by the fact that a year earlier at the Confederations of Smolov against the backdrop of serious rivals, he showed nothing, scoring only one goal of New Zealand (Russia did not leave the group). But the football player was allegedly interested in the Dortmund Borussia and the London West Ham, and Smolov abandoned the English club publicly-due to too low in the table and the defensive style of the game.

Smolov failed at the World Cup

The coaching staff replaced Smolov in the first game against Saudi Arabia. Artem Dziuba, who came out instead of him, scored a goal and generally looked many times more motivated - and in the next matches, Smolov was already entering the field at the ends of the games, replacing Dziubu. In the game with Spain, Smolov successfully struck the first penalty for the Russians in the post -match series, but in the quarter -finals against Croatia not only did not do this, but as if he tried to execute a “pezhon” panel -style blow - the so -called a weak blow to the center of the goal in the calculation of the goalkeeper’s jump into the corner. Players and head coach Stanislav Cherchesov supported Smolov, but the fans said directly: "Russia flew out of him." They even ceased to be considered the sexiest player in the Russian national team

Smolov tried to explain himself - but made even worse

“Unfortunately, this happened to me. I do not relieve myself of responsibility for an unrealized penalty. The only thing I want to say: in my head always the words of Michael Jordan that he took a throw at a crucial moment several thousand times did not realize many times, ” said Fedor Smolov after the match. The pathos of Jordan's words was that he succeeded only passing through many misses. But the words pulled out of context and already Smolov himself was mockingly called "Jordan." The football player made an attempt to reconcile at a meeting of players with fans on the Sparrow Hills: "That you have the same - I would have the same in your place yesterday and today." Many fans still continued to criticize Smolov.

In the first match of the Russian championship, Smolov scored one ball. But another "brought"

Krasnodar fully supported his player - and made him captain for this season. In the first match in Kazan against Rubin, Smolov scored, equalizing the score, but only a couple of minutes later he gave a rough pass, as a result of which Kazan scored - and won. “He is a psychologically stable person. The bandage gives a certain degree of responsibility. We hope that he will prove himself as a team leader, ”Oleg Fomenko continued to say the acting head coach Oleg Fomenko. The fans continued to compete in wit: “Goal + cashback, legend!”

And then Smolov lost control of the car. And can sit for 15 days

On the night of August 1, on Stavropol Street in Krasnodar, Smolov could not hold his car on the road and crashed into a fence at high speed. The accident was not issued according to the law - the driver left the scene. At first, Smolov said that he was not in the car, then he said that he was, but his friend was driving, and then admitted that he was conducting the car himself, and left the scene of the accident, because he felt ill. Before leaving, for some reason he took a selfie with the accidentally met fan of Krasnodar. Now Smolov is waiting for the court - for violations of traffic rules and flight from the scene of the accident, he can lose his rights and receive up to 15 days of administrative arrest. The date of the court has not yet been set.

Andrey Kozenko