The team schedule for the next two days was posted at the reception. At 16 o’clock the players had to gather at the Frunzenskaya metro station and go to Bor. At 5 p.m. testing was scheduled. And at half past five athletes were waiting for the bathhouse. Then dinner and hang up at 23 o’clock (they will check everyone! - A.Sh.)
The first to appear in Bor was Dmitry Sychev. A rare case - he was not focused on something of his own (or at least on club issues) and even greeted everyone.
RFU President Vitaly Mutko parked the car far from the main entrance and did not deny himself the pleasure of walking along the path in front of the camera lenses. He was cheerful and smiling.
- Vitaly Leontyevich, yesterday the general director of Saturn Mikhail Vorontsov accused Yegor Titov of racism. Will you punish the captain of Spartak? After all, they promised to fight the shameful phenomenon.
Mutko began from afar:
- You know, football is so public. For some reason you yourself are torturing your football, you want to show it dirty. But this is not true.
Before Titov was clearly far away.
“You all earn money on football,” Mutko shamed reporters. - You can’t literally blacken everything.
We got to Yegor.
“Was he in the middle of the field ?!” - exclaimed the president of the RFU, referring to Vorontsov. - All this is from his words. I already read one protocol where, according to one coach, Petrakov, the footballer Pavlyuchenko was accused. Well, we get to the point of absurdity! Our football is not as bad as many want to show. We have two clubs in the Champions League! Maybe ten years later we will gratefully recall this time ...
The prospects of his rule the head of the RFU drew strange. But he was no longer restrained. It was very opportune to ask if he was going to insist that Yevgeny Giner stop leading the Premier League.
“The exempted person should head the Premier League,” Mutko agreed. - I’ve been talking about this for a long time. And I will convince the team leaders. We would make the new leader vice president of the RFU. Now what is happening in the Premier League? There, the CEO sits, does nothing, and waits for him to be fired.
Guus Hiddink arrived here. He was wearing a rather strange scarf, which many mistook for a colored terry towel. In connection with the approaching bath, it looked logical. The coach hugged with his boss. It, too, is logical: there were many television cameras around.
The national team players once again showed reluctance to share the secret. Immediately hid in the room Igor Akinfeev. One of the Berezutsky shook his head. Denisov, Arshavin and Bystrov moved around the hotel with great speed, almost holding hands. Only Pavel Pogrebnyak was open and cheerful.
“Tell Boomer ... no to Bremen ... no to Briner ...” he tried to formulate his thought. But no one understood.
“What are you talking about, Pavel?” About the bookmaker?
“No, no ... I read the newspaper today, where he called me Pavel Treaty.”
- Rabiner or something ?!
- Exactly. Tell me that if I see him, then ... In general, this is not so.
- Offended?
- Of course.
- Yes, fine. You tell me better, have you already signed a contract with Zenit?
- What are you talking about? I don’t understand, - Paul was very embarrassed. “I don't know anything about Zenith.”
- Premier League Club.
- I remember it. But I don’t know anything.
“So you stay at Tomi for another year?”
- Yes.
Here Pogrebnyak could not stand it and laughed. Around began to applaud approvingly.
Hiddink also applauded at a press conference. Congratulations on your past birthday. But the Dutchman once again did not say anything that would be worth quoting. There is no conflict with Mutko (the RFU president boiled again when he answered the question about relations with the coach). Sergey Ignashevich will play. Youth may be included in the application.
Football players have already gone to the bathhouse. Again flashed a triple from St. Petersburg. Denis Kolodin was telling something funny to Dmitry Borodin. Goalkeeper Torpedo (and Denis’s future Dynamo teammate) laughed.
On Friday, the team will begin by passing tests for doping. Then he will train and go to Sochi. Vitaliy Mutko is also flying. Guus Hiddink will never be left without wise advice.
Alexey Shevchenko