- Alexander, have you decided on your future? - Alexander Shirko called after the match “Torpedo” - “Shinnik” reporters.
“Yes,” the striker answered, stretching the vowel, and became silent only when he disappeared from sight.
Shirko spent the whole match with Sergei Kormiltsev and Dmitry Borodin in the press box. They talked animatedly, occasionally casting glances at the field (what was happening on the field, of course, could not be called football). Above, in a separate sector, Yaroslavl fans raged. One of them lit a smoke bomb.
“Sasha, go calm them,” Shirko shouted friends. - You know how.
He laughed briskly.
“I already went once,” the striker replied. - And they removed me for four matches.
But at the same time, he began to take a closer look at the sector.
Yaroslavl fans repeatedly charged: “First League”. But it was not clear what they wanted to say. Either offend their own, or “Torpedo” tease. Finally, they began to chant this slogan together with the black and white sector. It was a lot of fun.
Torpedo fans, very calm and small in the last round, showed themselves not from the best side. They constantly blew up something in their sector. Probably, a lot of firecrackers have accumulated over the season, because their players scored extremely rarely.
In addition, they lit the fires and started throwing them at the policemen (there were much more of them than all the spectators of the match). No one expected this behavior from Torpedo fans. In shock was even Kormiltsev.
“So, go to your sector,” he showed Shirko. “And I will go my own way.” Calm them down.
But, of course, the players did not go anywhere.
After the match, Shinnik players were waiting for a banquet. But not everyone went to it. For example, Martin Gorak was in a hurry somewhere and left Luzhniki before anyone else. The rest of the players walked slowly (anticipating the holiday) and friendly stopping to chat with reporters who were in no hurry to turn on the recorders.
Andrei Konovalov was asked to name the three best players in the championship. He thought for a long time.
“Arshavin,” he finally remembered. - But he is in second place. I do not want him to be on the first.
The midfielder thought about the first place for about five minutes.
“Maybe someone from CSKA,” the journalist urged him. - Or from Lokomotiv. Although who can be called from the “Locomotive”?
“Let it be from CSKA,” Konovalov agreed. - Let there be Akinfeev.
Torpedo goalkeeper Dmitry Borodin talked about something with team owner Vladimir Aleshin. But it was not about extending the contract.
“I have not signed a contract with Dynamo yet,” the goalkeeper began. - These are all rumors. I have an agreement with Torpedo. And now we will discuss further plans.
“But you are no longer playing.” So you don’t see yourself in the club?
- I do not play for one simple reason - I have an injury. If now the team was solving serious problems, then I would go on the field at the injections. But since everything has already been decided, we must heal. And in the team I was not quite healthy.
The pale general director of Torpedo Yuri Mishin passed by. He was led to a meeting with the fans.
Alexey Shevchenko