- Good morning, Renat! - called out defender Sabitov, who was strolling through the lobby of the Dan Tel Aviv Hotel.
It was the morning after the match with Dynamo Kyiv, in which the player spent 45 minutes on the pitch, which was not the best in his career. Immediately after the game he was blacker than the clouds.
“Thank you, fine,” Renate answered with a polite smile. - How are you?
Journalists breathed a sigh of relief. Some feared that after yesterday’s frustration, the guy would break down, shut himself up.
The evening before, Vladimir Fedotov did not say what program the team would train the next day. Perhaps not yet decided. On Sunday morning, it became clear that some of the players were sent to the stadium, and some to run by the sea. Mostly those who did not play with the people of Kiev left for the beach. But among them were Wojciech Kowalewski and Denis Boyarintsev, which surprised me. However, the midfielder himself explained everything:
- Did I play? So ... I went out to run for an appetite.
None of the groups showed Dmitry Torbinsky. He did not leave the hotel at all. Since the rules were suddenly introduced in Spartak, according to which you can communicate with a doctor only with the permission of the press attache, it turned out to be impossible to find out the truth.
Vladimir Shevchenko himself, instead of commenting, made a whole speech, the fragments of which are appropriate to hide for dots:
- We are tired of your materials! Who ... told you that we were going to Jerusalem?
- They just asked the trainer whether they were going or not.
“I would have heard it ... I would have broken it.” What ... should we go to Jerusalem?
- On a tour.
“We ... at the training camp.” We are not up to excursions. ... are we Jerusalem?
Obviously, the Spartak’s press officer simply wanted to frustrate others with their anger and dissatisfaction. He did not give arguments, but he insulted the shrine city all the same in vain.
“There are top-level KVN jokes, such as Zhvanetsky,” a person began to explain for some reason to people who had recently abandoned attempts to create a humorous program on one of the TV channels. - And there are puns, a lower genre. I will probably close you access to the team. And I’ll tell the security service to persecute you.
- Well…
- Give such an order? - Shevchenko turned to the club employee responsible for security. - Or not?
“Give it back,” he supported his colleague.
However, the press officer was not in a hurry to fulfill the promise.
“You, Vladimir, are exaggerating everything,” the correspondent woke up with a desire to object. - Do not listen to other arguments. Go somewhere.
“I can leave when I want!” I am no match for you.
Such a confusion in statuses another time would flatter pride. But not now. The conversation was heavy.
“I’ll tell all the guys that they don’t talk to you,” the press officer announced. - I will not forbid. But our guys are careful. I’ll tell them what you write.
From the players have already heard that Shevchenko does not show them the publication of the press, but is trying to retell. It seems that Roman Pavlyuchenko pecked at this.
- So you wrote that I sent journalists at the award of the RFU ...
- So.
“Why did you write this?”
“So it was.”
“Why do you come if I don’t want to talk?” Don't come to me anymore. My mom read. (For the sake of persuasiveness, the novel even showed how my mother read the newspaper, although it was a question of publishing on the Internet.) And then she asked why I had this conversation.
Probably, the press attache had no arguments or desire to convince the scorer that the interlocutor’s claim was not to his refusal, but to the form in which he sounded.
Vladimir Fedotov, in response to a question about Torbinsky’s health, also boiled:
- I will not say anything! You are eavesdropping, you are the tabloid press.
Probably, the oral digest from Vladimir Shevchenko got to the coaching ears. The press attache himself, on a direct question about a midfielder’s injury, decided to demonstrate a “top-level joke”:
- Either the large intestine has become inflamed, or kidney stones.
We hope Dmitry Torbinsky will read it.
Alexey SHEVCHENKO, Tel Aviv