Footballers of the Moscow Spartak Wojciech Kowalewski and Maxim Kalinichenko were sitting in the lobby of the hotel and drinking coffee peacefully. They were kind to journalists. And they even explained why they did not sleep during a quiet hour.
“And we slept at night,” said Wojciech with a serious look. “Those who did not sleep are resting now.”
Reporters made a stand. Everyone wondered where the players walk at night during the training camp. Kalinichenko could not stand it and laughed. So they are still sleeping. It's a pity.
- Maxim, how are you?
The midfielder immediately became sad.
“I could not practice today,” he sighed. - I tried, but could not. It hurts.
- Can you play tomorrow? - asked him.
Here Kowalewski again took the floor.
“No one will play tomorrow,” his voice was very sad. But, having paused, he almost shouted: - Because tomorrow we are not playing!
I must say that before that, Kovalevsky was already asked about tomorrow's match. And he once again marveled that no one (except him) knows the schedule of the tournament.
By the way, Kowalewski, who is not without interest following the news about changes in the composition of his club, today also turned out to be a newsmaker. The Dutch press got him into the Feyenoord.
- This is not the team that was driven out of the UEFA Cup? - he became interested. - And for what them? For the fans? But I still haven’t heard anything about it. Nobody turned to me, to the agent, it seems, either.
Moscow army men, unlike the Spartacists, are closed in their Caesarea, the guard is at the hotel and does not let anyone in. However, such an excessive concentration is beneficial. They defeated the second and third clubs of Israel with a total score of 9: 2. True, they did not have the best memories from Ashdod.
“The stadium is just awful,” one CSKA admitted. - We have not played these for a long time. But the worst thing was in the locker room. Water from the shower went to the toilet. It was there that the drain. I have not seen this in my life.
At the Blumfeld Stadium in Tel Aviv, conditions are certainly better. And even much more democratic. For example, journalists were not searched before coming to the stadium. For this country, such police behavior is nonsense.
Feeling the will, the local “ultras” (it was written on their back - “Hapoel ultras”) went to meet their players at the locker room. But not to beat (but after 1: 4 from CSKA should), but to greet.
It was an extraordinary sight. Players walked three meters to the bus to scary and loud songs. All of the fans present tried to squeeze each of them (exactly what to squeeze). We must pay tribute to the players. They walked anyway, although they could sit in the locker room. The police have already begun stripping.
The main secular disappointment of the tournament is the absence of Roman Abramovich at the match, at whose expense the football festival takes place. Of the famous people in the game between CSKA and Hapoel, only Evgeny Giner (which is understandable) and Yuri Belous (which is strange) were present. The selection, of course, is not the same.
Alexey SHEVCHENKO, Tel Aviv