Conqueror of Britain

Yevtushenko dedicated Vasily Kartsev to Vasily Kartsev, and the British during Dynamo's departure to the foggy Albion ran out onto the field to shake his hand

The Moscow Dynamo for half a century (at least the anniversary of the pass) has not bothering to reach gold. From the formidable team, one name has long been left. And - a big story in which, I risk assuming, there are still many riddles and secrets. And in the blue and blue chronicle, there are honest players shrouded in legends and myths who actually made great victories. One of such really fabulous Goleadors was Vasily Kartsev, who opened and closed the score to Dynamo goals in the famous British tour of the Order -bearing Club in the fall of 1945.

... Evgeny Yevtushenko devoted a poem to one of his favorite football players, which begins as follows: “Fruit, nicknamed“ Tuberculomia ”, Kartsev was like a gray -haired collective farmer, without frightening Pushkashi IKR. He was not in appearance to the games. But the playing of the frotsev Kartsev Vasya woke up a game was woke up, and he could cut such a little piece, as if something whispered in him: “It's time!” What was the secret of his marvelous gift - a stunning blow - maybe in his shyness - his mother of a secret blow to that? "

As a matter of fact, an unpleasant illness (which doctors did not do it as effectively as today) and did not allow Vasily Mikhailovich to execute more seven seasons for a sight for sore eyes. On the other hand, the fate allotted to him for sonorous performances for two and a half thousand days, the master spent absolutely not a formidable physique at the highest level. And in the memory of the fans of the post -war pore, of course, forever.

... Is it too surprised that the 11x11 male amusement first pushed away the smart, with the suffering face of the boy, who seemed to be painful to walk.

The coaches of the children's team from Yegoryevsk confidently pointed to his door. But the thin and light cornflower did not give up, but went to drive the “bubble” into the courtyard. And there, on dusty and uneven sites, fiercely fighting with gambling boys-workers, he got off to beat the ball with frightening force. None of the guys wanted to get up between two rods so as not to substitute his palms under the Vaskina Charges.

Well, in terms of starting speed, a black -haired self -taught could give a head start to anyone. He accelerated rapidly, and few people managed to catch it and take it away from him. The mentors of the Krasnoye Banner Youth Club noted the 17-year-old guy of the Nekogatyr. After the Cup battalion with the Moscow Dynamo from 1937, the eye on the stubborn boy laid the “Lokomotiv” on the stubborn boy. However, in red-green penalties, the Kartsev graduated from the school did not linger. He did not stay for one reason: the three-time champions of the country needed a assertive comrade, and Vasily, who produced 16 goals in one year (including Dynamo in the game for the Cup), liked Boris Arkadyev, who then led a powerful blue and white brigade.

T-shirt with the letter “D” Novice, who passed the courses of lieutenants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, put on in 1942. The legendary attacking line of Dynamo (Alexander Malyavkin - Sergey Solovyov - Konstantin Beskov - Vasily Trofimov - Vasily Kartsev) formed in the war years. In the championships of Moscow, a miniature sniper in 26 matches pierced 19 times without a miss located in 26 matches in 26 matches in 26 matches.

And his debut in the USSR-1945 championship came out simply amazingly unknown. At the Stalinsky stadium, in the presence of 35,000 spectators, Vasily equalizes the score in the fight with Spartak in the 62nd minute, and on the 75th will be removed from the field for mutual rudeness with Boris Sokolov. However, then he differed only with a plus sign. That season he brought Dynamo victory in a dozen battles. Beautifully upset torpedoes and locomotives. He sent two goals to the nets of the gates of the Minsk, Tbilisi and Leningrad teammates. “Zenit” and “Spartak” in a response fight Kartsev applied three effective injections. And the Wings of the Soviets completely cut the wings four times in half an hour. And Dynamo (already under the leadership of Mikhail Yakushin), ahead of one point of the CDA, for the fourth time grabbed gold medals.

By the way, Mikhail Iosifovich, without any deceit, exactly Kartsev considered the most talented spirer of all whom he had to train. And the cunning Micah, as you know, managed to work hard in the team even with such aces as Voronin and Sagittarius. But then you go: the Dynamo nevertheless appreciated the above all ... And this is that Vasily, as we know, did not have a large volume of work with good physical data. Moreover, a suspicious comrade, afraid to eat and drink something wrong for himself, avoided contact football and did not participate in defensive actions. But then, as Yakushin said,

"Kartsev perfectly understood the game, intuitively understanding the tactical nuances, and knew how to realize any coaching plan."

In other people's possessions, the eighth number was oriented perfectly (the defenders did not have time for his movements), and the timely lightning-fast jerks and branded, insidious (almost no swing) blows of Vasily did not leave the goalkeepers of Vasily.

In November 1945, the British and the British and the British and the Scots felt on themselves. Dynamo found himself on the distant islands for a reason. The future president of FIFA, and then the secretary of the football association of England Stanley Rose asked the Soviet diplomats who were visiting London in October: "Would our athletes meet on the field?" Formalities settled in a month. Interest in the tournament turned out to be huge. Journalists from the United Kingdom, who confused the names of Russian visitors, fantasized and convinced their readers that these stars would have to fight "workers who occupy high posts at their plants and kicating leather sphere exclusively at night ...". Well, here the whole country fled in the cold fall to the reproductors to catch the intricate details of the Dynamo tour from Vadim Sinyavsky.

In the first match at the foggy Albion with Chelsea, the white-white ones were inferior to 0: 2 to the middle of the second half. It seemed to be conceded hopelessly. But in the 65th minute, the “shell” ended up at the feet of the right welter player, who was in the immediate vicinity of Vika Woodley's possessions. Here is how Vasily Mikhailovich himself described those events: “Sergey Solovyov with a breeze rushed along the edge forward and gave the ball to Beskov, who burst into the penalty area. Konstantin, without hesitation, handed it to me. And suddenly, for the first time in the whole game, I saw not only a ball, but also a gate. I hit. And for a moment he again stopped seeing the "frame". But I heard the roar and roar of the stands. And I understood - a goal! Prints are torn! Goal!" Woodley, I emphasize, did not even move after a sudden shot of a native of Yegoryevsk. And one of the English fans managed to jump onto the Stamford Bridge lawn, hug Kartsev and shake his hand. The Dynamo eventually managed to save a duel (3: 3), and the next day the British press named the phenomenal Vasily ( he also organizes Goleva Evgeny Arkhangelsky. - A. U. ) “Russian attack aircraft”.

An atypical striker also acted useful in meetings with Arsenal and Cardiff, but he proved himself especially spectacular in the final battle with the Glasgow Rangers. At the Ibrox, where 120,000 spectators gathered, Kartsev had enough 20 minutes to create a double. At first he upset Dawson with a direct blow to the penalty area, and then hesitated Ciper in close combat, sending a “nucleus” to the left corner. This was the last of 19 goals, scored by Dynamo in that famous British tour. And in his homeland, a subtile and modest Vasily, who put his foot in England, possibly the most epic Soviet Grace of the 20th century, turned into a folk hero. A hero who was respected and appreciated by the fans of all metropolitan teams.

After a couple of years, Dynamo will proceed to competitions in Scandinavia, and Kartsev will be applauded by fans of Norcheeping, who is “the best of the Russians” (as the Aftonblatiet edition) was a couple of with Beskovs elegantly dismantled spare parts (5: 1). By the way, the Gunnar Nordal and Niels Lidholm, who soon became the Olympic champions of London-1948 and the Italian champions as part of Milan, were then virtuoso.

Kartsev, on the other hand, will not be able to light up at the first for Soviet athletes-1952. In 1948, tuberculosis will be found in the 28-year-old striker. He will continue to finit and even enter the list of “33 best” at the end of the season, and a year later he is eight accurate branded cotton (by the way, the “Kartsevsky whip” will help his people in the people) will help Dynamo to rise to the upper line of the pedestal. And in the same 1949, the Budapest "Vasash", half consisting of the finalists of the planetary forum in Switzerland, Vasily shocked with three chic unexpunctions.

And many will call that match perhaps the most ideal in the career of the elusive maestro, which in the fall of 1951 will complete its short but bright football story. It is noteworthy that the attacker himself his assault series, as he claimed, never led. But once he spoke very interestingly about his favorite craft: “... every time you return after the goal of the ball to the center, you experience an incomparable feeling of luck and proud satisfaction. Let it do not last long, about half a minute or less, while you pass a dozen two or three meters separating you from your original position, but it is worth it to immediately start a fight by the ball and rush to the enemy’s goal ... ”It is worth emphasizing that it is worth emphasizing that

In the form of the Moscow Dynamo, Kartsev in 123 matches sparkled 85 times brilliantly. And he is still amazing - and this is amazing - enters the six best scorers in the history of the club.

But in the coaching field of the sincere and soft Vasily Mikhailovich, unlike his brilliant partners - Beskov and Trofimov - did not succeed, quite quickly realizing that mentoring was not his element. No, he, of course, honestly tried to extend his existence on the green lawn and for 12 months, the Yaroslavl, Rostov and Sverdlovsk "Dynamo" was consistently, and then filed with the Ryazan "Spartak" for two years. But, obviously, it was difficult for a person who felt the game instinctively to teach young people theory and strategy.

Meanwhile, it was necessary to somehow make a living, and Kartsev, who before the war graduated from the Menzhinsky Military School, got a job at the factory in Ryazan, where he worked for almost a quarter century. Moreover, he moved from football so much that he did not even play for veterans, and indeed considered the maneuvers of the actors in the boots from the 70s and 80s very primitive. By the way, the most outstanding striker, in his opinion, was the Spaniard Ishidro Langaru, who came in the Russian national team to Moscow in 1937. The two -time champion of the country itself in recent years and at the native stadium in the Petrovsky Park was extremely rare ... And so that no one was bothering it, he did not specifically install the phone in the Ryazan apartment. True, according to his wife Raisa Mikhailovna, Vasily Mikhailovich was always happy when commentator Nikolai Ozerov and the son of the great poet Konstantin Yesenin, a journalist and statistics, visited him.

... And the poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, dedicated to the supersonic Dynamo, ends like this: “There is no museum, where Kartsev Bots. From Mikey, who disappeared forever, then the smelling letters were jumped and will never return. ”

The conqueror of Britain died on April 11, 1987. Two days after his 67th birthday ... And on April 9, he would have turned 105 years old.

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