On Guus Hiddink will not save

Guus Hiddink will arrive in Moscow on Monday. This will be his first visit to Russia as the head coach of the national team. The Dutchman will stay in the capital for two days, after which he will leave for St. Petersburg for a couple of days. During the time that Hiddink will spend in Russia, he is going to watch the Zenit vs CSKA football match, communicate with the coaches, if he is lucky, and pick up permanent Moscow housing. Izvestia found out the details of his visit.

“The Russian Football Union is engaged in Hiddink’s visit to Russia, we only pay,” said assistant to Roman Abramovich, chairman of the board of the National Academy of Football Foundation, Sergei Kapkov, to Izvestia. “However, I can say that no cultural program is envisaged. Hiddink does work here he’s going, not resting. Maybe his wife will be taken somewhere, but he didn’t even raise this question. "

The wife of Guus Hiddink Elizabeth will accompany her husband on the first Russian business trip. Those journalists who saw this woman in Germany during the recent World Cup speak of her with aspiration. She has Surinamese roots, she is a mulatto, looks very young, but rather, not just looks, but really young.

Next week, she will have an ambitious task - to pick up real estate in the center of Moscow for permanent residence. On Monday, according to Izvestia, the Hiddink couple will stay at the National Hotel, but the head coach will be offered several housing options to choose from. “We are ready for any expenses,” says Sergey Kapkov. “If his wife chooses a cottage, then it will be a cottage. If an apartment means an apartment. Or maybe it will be an apartment in a hotel.”

Sergei Kapkov said that for the three assistants whom Hiddink is going to take with him, the head coach of the Russian team asked to rent 4-room apartments. Moreover, this is unlikely to be housing in the center; the assistants themselves say they would like to live closer to the base of the national team. “They are used to the fact that in Amsterdam, for example, any district offers the same living conditions - in the center, on the outskirts. And for them, the choice of location is primarily related to their proximity to work. The only problem is that the Russian team "There is no base yet, and now it’s not clear whether it will continue to train in Bor, or if some of the Moscow clubs will provide their national team with their territory,” Kapkov says. “There’s no clarity with the Moscow office either." When asked why the RFU’s office on Luzhnetskaya was bad, the assistant Roman Abramovich answered with a question: “Have you been there yourself?”

As for Hiddink's assistants, neither Kapkov nor RFU President Vitaly Mutko have given their names yet, but according to Izvestia's information, former CSKA footballer Igor Korneev, who has long been living in Holland, is one of them. At least, Hiddink insists that this specialist be taken to the coaching staff, and in the near future Korneev should fly to Moscow to negotiate with Mutko.

“By the way, Korneev was not Hiddink’s creature,” an RFU officer familiar with the situation asked Izvestia not to give his last name. “Initially, Hiddink planned that he would have only one Russian assistant - Alexander Borodyuk. The other three were Dutch. But then Neskens refused to go to Russia (Johan Neskens, a famous player in the past who helped Hiddink with Australia. Izvestia ). More precisely, he didn’t refuse, but asked for a lot of money. Hiddink himself said that Neskens shouldn’t pay such money. And through some something of his Dutch coaching community went to Korneev. "

Thus, if the negotiations between Vitaly Mutko and Igor Korneev, scheduled for the near future, end with the signing of the contract, there will be two Russian assistants in the coaching staff of Hiddink. There is no doubt that Alexander Borodyuk will enter there right now.

After two days spent in Moscow, Guus Hiddink will go to St. Petersburg in the company of the President of the RFU, for the match “Zenith” - CSKA. This is the central game on the tour. Although, even if there was no football at all in St. Petersburg next week, it is unlikely that the RFU president would give up the prospect of showing Hiddink his hometown.

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Chermen DZGOEV