“I told someone that one person should deal with this issue, and not several?” - shouted the administrator of Spartak Alexander Hadji into the telephone receiver. - And now what i can do? We didn’t cook dinner! They stand here and show each other!
Hotel staff looked really depressed. An hour before the arrival of the guests, they began to carefully rub the stairs in front of the entrance, preparing to meet the great club. Washed the door. They arranged a real flea market when the team’s buses drove up to the hotel, provoking a small collision of two taxis ... But no thanks were received in return.
Spartacists were very tired. Even Yegor Titov refused to communicate with the press, offering to turn to him in the evening. It was a complete impression that Roman Shishkin did not sleep all night playing computer hockey.
- It’s not a shame that you weren’t called to the national team for the match with Holland?
- Yes to me ... No, it’s not a shame.
- No emotions at all?
- Absolutely.
Probably the Shishkin team lost again.
Goalkeeper Wojciech Kowalewski, on the contrary, looked quite peppy. Probably because he knew that he would not have to train in the evening.
“Wojciech, why do everyone look so tired, as if they had been walking through the desert for forty years?”
- I won’t tell about others, but I have a reason. I have a cold.
- Where did you manage?
- In Moscow.
- Will it affect the preparation?
- Little. Today and tomorrow I will not train.
- But will you be announced for the first match of the tournament?
- And when is he?
- It seems to be the 27th.
“You yourself do not know!” But I will try to recover.
“Well, actually you look better than others.” This is strange. After all, they are looking for a replacement for you. Here we would cry, given the club’s leadership plans to buy one goalkeeper or another.
- Write that I also take the goalkeeper.
- Where?
- Also in Spartak. Let it be.
“Do you know these people: Amelia, Hildebrand?”
- Of course, I know the second.
“And don't you worry?”
“Why worry?”
- If the boss with such persistence were looking for a person at my stake ...
- Yes, you have less competition. But I don’t worry.
Roman Pavlyuchenko, who by tradition walked around the reporters for a couple of meters, was surprised to examine the room key.
- Is that what I live alone? - he turned to Alexander Pavlenko.
“Yes, we all live one at a time,” the partner confirmed.
“Why do we live one by one?” - the forward was suddenly amazed.
Renat Sabitov smiled, as if he still could not believe the signing of a contract with Spartak.
- How do you like at the club? Does the coach still not press?
“So far, the training is going on,” Sabitov said in surprise. - We’ll see in the season.
- Star disease has not yet appeared?
“So I haven’t won anything yet.”
Sergei Rodionov, assistant coach, told what the matches with Dynamo Kyiv mean to him. And he promised to convey this attitude to the guys.
- Do you have friends in Israel? - turned to him. - All the players who played in the USSR Championship have.
“I don't know,” Rodionov admitted. - This is my first time in this country. I'd like to see the sights.
At least someone came for a reason.
Alexey SHEVCHENKO, Tel Aviv