Mini-maximalists

Russian big football about the successes of small can only dream

The tournament hosted by Moscow in October clearly did not correspond to its loud name the 4th intercontinental cup for mini-football. In the usual sense of the word, the cup ones were just the previous three tournaments, when Dina, the permanent Russian and then still club European champion, met with the strongest team of South America at that time. In three matches, they found out who would get the cup.

When in 1996, Dina President Sergei Kozlov for the first time proposed such a drawing system, it was met with a bang. But next year, the Brazilians, having failed, to be very surprised, to take the Cup from Moscow, they protested: they say, national and continental championships in Europe and South America are held at different times, and it turns out that the European champion of this year receives an invitation to the Cup, and the South American past. That is, it would be right, the southern no American said so that we participate in two teams. And then Dina also stumbled slightly: the final of the European Champions Cup, 20000, held in Spain, did not won, but the local “Kakha Sea”, which gave the right to claim to participate in the continental cup.

So in the fourth year of its existence, this tournament turned essentially into the world championship among club teams.

Mr. Kozlov predicted that it would be so over time. He could not only know how much this time would be needed so that the club created by him became the strongest in the country, then in Europe and, finally, in the world. Then, in the 91st, only those who wanted the gambling, the pre-tribute of the “new Russian Ban” did not laugh at Kozlov, to be in their delusion as long as possible to a person with serious money, no matter how rabble his undertakings seem to be, Soviet-Russian sports officials can very well. At that booster time, the football federation could have appeared freely, for example, an unknown Iraqi businessman Hussam al -Khalidi and ask: how much it is necessary to invest millions of dollars of dollars in order to create a common football team in a naked place, after all, it would be necessary to spend in the second and first leagues to compete with Spartak and Dynamo? He was replied that if you count millions and dollars, then not hundreds or even dozens are needed, but only units, but only we need to hire a competent coach. The Hussam left the Federation building, whir lamentably sorting out the rosary. The coach was hired from the greatest demons (!!!), to Manda was called “Asmaral” (according to the first syllables of the names of the three children of her own), and “Spartak” from Dynamo spoiled the blood pretty much as they said in one of the wonderful old films, adventure, of course, but the scale!

As for Kozlov, football wolves immediately realized that he was not an adventurer, and ranked him to the host of idealists-ducals. I visited, you understand, somewhere abroad, where he took out the team of the Moscow sports school (this is a person’s money that he is not spent on!), A couple of minifutball tournaments there are often arranged for the weekend: with advertising, television, full halls, and now we are interested in why we have nothing like that. We would see him with great pleasure, only what money?! He - let's try on mine ...

The objections, of course, are not a day. Although Kozlov describes everything in a slightly different way: - Those short tournaments fascinated me immediately and, apparently, forever I saw both an exciting sight and a living example, how you can do business in football. I realized that it should be invested in it and what can be obtained. Until then, I hadn’t looked at football from this point of view: so, I helped me a little by the sport-school with money, which I once finished, leaving the guys with the guys if possible. And it caught fire. I found out that our mini mini minute in the yard is 91st year, and the first championship of the USSR is going on! And the national team was just gathering with the UEFA Committee on the Mini-Futball then the country then finished for the first time. I molested the officials with questions, and they, seeing my interest, offer whether to provide a financial support to the mini-football team. Like, this is the pain of foot honor to become the first sponsor. Indeed, then people with money only erupted into big football, the mini really did not interest anyone. I just knocked on this door before others ...

Of course, we are happy to invest a person ready to invest, but only if he agrees to spend these funds as the authoritative advisers to Ki prompt. And they advised the Kozlov bicycle not to invent, but to do everything like in big football. Only in a mini-version. Everyone was very surprised when the bank manager Kozlov said: as in Bolshoi, he will not have a mini.

Getting down to business, Kozlov immediately developed the maximum speed. Already in the summer of the 91st, the newly-made general manager of the Russian team in Mini-football (then this position was also called the “team chief”) there was no doubt: the backbone of this national team will be the players of his own club team, which, however, was still to create. She was born on August 22 and received the name "Dina" in honor of Kozlov’s wife. Many, however, decided that Dina is truncated by Dynamo, because the president was known as an avid fan of a police club. In fact, Kozlov had nothing in mind and intentionally gave his brainchild a neutral name so that fans of Spartak, CSKA, and any other team could cheer for him.

Kozlov, unlike the same al-Khalidi, was deprived of a bet on the names in the Russian mini mini before his arrival simply did not exist. And it was impossible to find a shock of the scale of Beskov, no matter what kind of money you offer. The phrase “World Cup” attracted many, but the coaches and players were ready to change grass to parquet only on condition that in the new monastery they would live according to the Charter of the Old. The coaches demanded that we give us “management levers”: “We must control the income of the players to execute and mercy with money: you did not work out the salary, you didn’t play it to the premium. They will not be afraid - they will not respect. ”

The players scratched the heads and said that the change of profession is a risky business, and you have to pay for the risk. It would be nice to get ahead of ahead, otherwise who knows how the mini -affairs will go in this.

But Kozlov was boring to spend their money on people who used to lay straw every time. He needed just a risky people. Perhaps, for the first time in the history of our sport, the contracts of team members and coaches were included in the non-disclosure of the amount of salary: he shared the information about his income with a fine, and considerable. The Soviet coach cannot survive when the player receives more than him, protect the coach with ignorance, and if he is too curious, protect the team from such a coach. Kozlov came to a mini-football to become the first real club president.

However, for success, all the more fast, they needed not only money and structure, but also performers. How many years do we complain that in such a country with endless human resources we cannot find a person who can drive the ball no worse than any Frenchmen. But efforts