- Sergey Alekseevich, why did you return to hockey? You have finished your career as a coach .
- Who said?
“You said so.”
- Nothing like this. When is that?
- After the dismissal from Salavat Yulaev. You said that everything is enough ... Health is more expensive.
- Not true. I did not finish anything. There simply was a situation that ... Some comrades arranged everything so that they found some extreme, hunchbacked one. And then I took a break. I didn’t run anywhere, I didn’t ask anywhere. And then the moment came when the team began to need to be pulled out. And they turned to me.
“You were so good-natured when giving interviews during your vacation.” You can immediately see that they were resting. Should I go back to this hassle?
- I have behind me 27 years of coaching career and 15 years of playing practice - moreover, in good teams with decent hockey players. And I worked with great coaches. So my appointment is normal. But when they put at risk young boys who do not have a license, nothing is bad. And they are injured.
“Who are you talking about?”
- About the same Nikolai Borschevsky. How should he work now?
- Yes, yes, there are many young people. Kadeikin, Leonov ...
- These still work. And Nikolai is no longer working.
- What is the moral?
- The trainer needs to be trained. He needs to sit under the great master for a while. He needs to learn how to work. Or to complete the higher courses of trainers. Coaching is the same pedagogy, psychology ...
- Physiology.
- Yes! There are so many things. You have to learn the same thing.
- During your absence, the players have somehow changed?
- Money began to receive more.
- Yes, and before they received a lot. But do you probably think it’s too much anyway?
- Who knows how to play - he must receive. And who does not know how ...
- The balance is upset?
- Yes.
- You used to work with national teams ...
- Yes, for six years I headed the second national team of the country.
- Now they turn to you for advice?
- Not. And who needs hockey at all?
- Unclear.
- That's the whole conversation.
- Do you like the current championship draw system?
- Yes, it's not about the teams.
- And in what?
- The fact that low-class players come. And it is necessary that there were masters. It is necessary that schools do not chase points, but prepare players for the team of masters.
- Clear. You have always been considered a very tough coach. The players went crazy from you. After a pause, they became softer?
- There is such a moment: the player is obliged to fulfill what is required, to observe game discipline. And you have to ask him. A person who comes to work does not have the right to drive marriage. For this they do not pay salaries. And why does a hockey player, having scored one goal in 50 matches, come for a salary? This is marriage!
- So, everything is the same with hockey players?
- And how was it?
- Yes, no matter who you ask, everyone grabs their heads from your manner of communication.
- Who said?
- Players.
- I am a very gentle coach. One of the softest in the Super League. Ask the guys.
Alexey Shevchenko