"I am deliberately at risk"

About how Konstantin Eremenko, who did not live, did and did not finish, and did not finish it.

Dossier "New". Achievements of Konstantin Eremenko
In official matches he scored 1132 goals. The best in the history of the Dina scorer (972) and the Russian team (122), the championship of the country (533) and the Russian Cup (210). The owner of the "eternal" record is 91 goals in 32 Games of the CR-94. CIS champion (1992), champion of Russia (1993–2000), winner of the Russian Cup (1991, 1992, 1993, 1995–1999). The winner of the European Champions Cup (1995, 1997, 1999) and the holder of the Intercontinental Cup (1997). The best scorer of these tournaments (61). Bronze medalist of the Planetary Forum (1996) and European champion (1999). The best Goleador of the two European championships (1996-8 goals, 1999-11 goals). The best player of the mini-football in the XX century.

I still can’t believe that he is not. Although 15 years have passed since death. In March 2010, the mischievous president of the Dynamo IFC drove a ball with friends on the team of Parliament. He wanted to support a non -parliamentary attack, but suddenly stopped and fell in the central circle. Neither brigades of ambulance and the Ministry of Emergencies, nor the doctors of the Botkin hospital ... did not manage to start a worn-out motor of the 39-year-old fearless maestro ...

But to blame doctors, in essence, has nothing to. Sunny Kostya, still being an acting player, perfectly understood that every battle could be the last for him. But he did not give this serious significance. He went out in a small clearing for two five -year planes and created tremendous on it, which could not explain miracles. Created with an innate heart defect.

On the table of the then President of Dina, Sergei Kozlov lay a receipt with the words "I am deliberately at risk ...". And at the disposal of the doctors of the team was a defibrillator, bought specifically for the bone. Rather, for that situation, if ... and none of the fans knew that next to the stadium during matches for a very likely “fireless case” was always on duty. But the impudent attacker, I repeat, really did not worry a fatal threat. And this is also a kind of miracle that such reviving “things” in those years were not needed.

He continued to score even when specialists from the Bakulevsky center in 2000 indicated: the myocardial wall was worn so that before the heart attack with all the ensuing it nearby and without football. And to the horror of those who, contrary to the rules and common sense, allowed him to the competition, plowed another season.

From the memoirs of Sergei Kozlov: “Bone has a problem with the heart muscle on the growing. Rhythm disturbance, rapid breathing, increased sweating. Everything flowed into a dangerous form ... But the receipt did not exempt from criminal liability. We purchased a defibrillator ... But doctors, of course, began to more and more often excommunicate it from tournaments. And in the end we decided that we had to end. Although the player was very offended by me. He said to many: "I am healthy, but they wrapped me!"

He realized that he was really sick, later. When he fainted in veteran matches ... when he was treated in Germany ... But the character could not be changed: he hoped that he would carry. His lifestyle was like that. He did not want to spin without a ball ... "

And on November 5, 2001, all the mini-football stars of the planet flew to the farewell match of the phenomenal bone. Eremenko, with complete dedication (did not know how to do it in a different way), led to a time for Dina and the world team. He thanked his parents and rivals, kissed the site and, bursting, went into the locker room. And in the stands of the seven thousand spectators, they escorted a super -sniper and quietly wiped off tears. And they shared stories about how, in the mid-90s, a two-meter blond with a charming smile regularly faded the Brazilians and Portuguese, puffed up Italians and Spaniards hundreds of times. But he puffed out so grandiose and elegant that foreign opponents after the fights always approached his hand. And although real masters (Verizhnikov, Alekberov, Bely, Denisov) played for that period at that time, it was the magical Eremenko who seemed to many nonsense to many nonsense of the mini-football on once cool and popular. Angrynov. The current generation will not believe that getting into the international matches of the metropolitan squad at the Luzhniki MSA was oh how difficult.

A difficult guy was a native of Dnepropetrovsk, who, of course, dreamed of a big football. But on the basis of the "Dnieper" in the championship of the USSR, he held only one fight. More precisely, in the late autumn of 1988, in a meeting with the Dynamo Minsk, he was released in the end for 10 minutes. And even then only because all the leaders who have already noted the championship rushed off to the commercial tournament in Morocco.

True, Kostya himself never hid that for genuine achievements on the green lawn, he lacked the strength. Well, the hot temperament, what a sin to hide, played him by no means in his hand. In short, he did not break through the basis of the Dnieper, quarreling with the veterans of the team. Then he tried a little in the “tractor” from Pavlodar and in the Kyrgyz Alge and returned home, accepting the proposal of the mini-football “machine operator”, with which the USSR Cup even managed to take-1991.

But here, he soon had an offside:

Having once beaten the club administrator, Eremenko got a wolf ticket. Moreover, Kostya had to hide from the investigation in Moscow, since in his homeland a long disqualification shone for him.

Then Sergey Kozlov, who suggested a hooligan youth, was fussing to become part of the recently created Dina.

Honestly, for the first time having observed the recruit, I did not delight. Short legs (with a stop of the 40th size), wing hands, long torso. “Calm and funny,” I thought to myself. However, it was precisely such a disproportionate structure of the body plus the incredible mobility of the ankle that allowed the striker-giant to make slant breakthroughs, which is unlikely to repeat anyone. And he did it with unbearable ease. His club partner Andrei Yudin very accurately noted: "Konstantin invented and realized his moments so at ease that it became uneasy ..."

At the World Cup-92 in Hong Kong, a 22-year-old newcomer scored 15 goals in three meetings. Semyon Andreev did not come out of the gang group, but it became clear to everyone who would rule the ball at smooth parquet in Russia and Europe. It was possible to slow down the second number of the national team and Dina only with a violation of the rules. But the rudeness of him only aroused Kostya. After sitting a couple of minutes on a bench with an ice bag pressed to a bruised place, he jumped out onto the site and upset the goalkeepers with his branded tricks. In 1997, the Russian Pele literally on one leg (with a capital-traumated knee) pulled out an intercontinental cup from the paws of the Brazilian “Inter Ulbra” for Dina, and at the time of the general celebration could not even rise from the bench.

He was offered many times to change the residence permit, but the Gol man was not going to run abroad. In an interview, he honestly admitted: “Speaking for“ Dean, I was the highest paid football player in the world. But the main thing is that I am not indifferent to the honor of the flag. I knew that, playing at home, he was able to do something for the prestige of the nation ... ”Well, who earned 11 thousand dollars a month (even the players, who were trained in Spartak, Oleg Romantsev, did not receive such money in those days) and dissected everything conceived into the“ Volvo ”.

... In the final of the European Champions Cup - 1999, the judge asked Eremenko to leave the field and mandatory to put on shields in which the striker did not like to play. The angry scorer returned a minute later and pierced the goalkeeper of Lazio with a powerful blow, opening an account in the match, which ended with the next triumph of the yellow-green team.

Hundreds of people were waiting for an idol on the street, wanting to just touch it. The wife of Konstantin, looking at the “crazy invasion”, waved her hand and one left home.

And her persistent spouse left the territory of the small Arena of Luzhnikov late at night, not refusing anyone to either autograph or joint photo.

The apotheosis of his career I would call the February Euro 1999. In five matches, he “painted” eleven goals. Moreover, four of them sent the Dutch in the semifinals. And on the last day of winter, in a crazy cut with the Spaniards, none other than Eremenko, having realized the decisive post -match penalty, brought the country one of the most memorable sports Victoria in post -Soviet history. Is it necessary to clarify that the gold of the Continental Forum of the Russian team since then has not submitted more ...

“As a child, my coach repeated:“ To be the best. ” And I tried ... ”-then said the most valuable player of the tournament, whom, during his life, the International Federation officially recognized the best mini-football player of the 20th century. But, in my opinion, much more important is not the title, but the fact that Kuns found out on the streets in Russia and in Europe. And they always told him delightfully warm words. Not all, I emphasize that our brave hockey players and tennis players from the 90s could boast of such glory. Well, you can’t buy the true love of the public for any money.

In 2002, Konstantin Viktorovich, who barely exceeded thirty, created Dynamo MFC from scratch. Under him, white-blue took gold six times, raised four Cups of Russia and the UEFA Cup overhead (the tournament of the same name is an analogue of the Great Football League). But it was surprised how the young president ruled the club. It has always been available to players, coaches and journalists. And in general it was not like a boss. His Dynamo was very reminiscent of, sorry, a new newspaper. It was not a team, but a family in which everyone, in fact, had equal and main roles regardless of their positions. And Kostya himself rarely looked down on football. For example, in Charlerua in the final of the European Cup-2005, a bright leader, to bewildered his colleagues patrons, escaped from VIP-laying in the sector to Dynamo fans and 40 minutes, jumping and waving a scarf, supported the team. And then he personally thanked every fan who came to Belgium.

And two years later, when Dynamo in Mursia, from the third attempt, won the main club trophy of the Old World, he brought the entire virtuoso brigade to the park next to Arena.

And together with the distressed fans, he arranged a wild skeleton with bathing in fountains and champagne interspersed with other drinks. You won’t believe it, but every fan could arrange a unique leader from a sparkling leader.

And no one in this pleasure, of course, denied. And the so -thoroughly wet manager opened more and more polar bottles and also watered happy people in response.

Under the curtain of a noisy action, I turned to Eremenko (with whom he was familiar) with a joking request: “Konstantin Viktorovich, let me shake your hand again and take a picture!” The 36-year-old boss sternly looked at me and at the whole fun company and said loudly: “So, so! My name is Kostya! If I hear Viktorych again, everyone will be very bad! ”

I have not met such players and presidents anymore.

On August 5, he could be 55 years old ...

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