“Now there is Wi-Fi in the press box,” Maxim Motin, the Moscow’s press attaché, solemnly announced.
It was impossible to look at this box, as well as at the stands of the Streltsov stadium without tears. Wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) was perceived there as a Ferrari near the Cherkizovsky market.
- And when will the sockets appear? - reporters asked displeasedly.
“Soon,” Maxim was embarrassed.
However, outlets there will be dangerous. The visor above the box practically does not save from rain. There was not enough short circuit fire on East Street. However, fire this sport facility could decorate.
Valery Petrakov and Leonid Slutsky, who once worked in this arena in a coaching team, carefully avoided each other before the match. Everything was done so that they were not face to face. And in the modest podtribunnyh rooms of the stadium, this task is difficult.
As a result, only Slutsky went to the pre-game warm-up. He was already nervous - and that was half an hour before the game! Coach "citizens" measured the distance from the bench to the edge. I tried to sit down. But then he jumped up and walked back to the field. Players prudently warmed up at the opposite end.
Petrakov spent all this time in the locker room.
During the match, they also could not be seen nearby. A guest from Siberia did not rise at all from the bench, gloomily watching what was happening. Slutsky was again active, apparently trying to relieve stress in this way. After the match, rival colleagues, of course, did not exchange handshakes.
“I will not tell you what Valery Petrakov told us before the match,” Tomi forward Sergey Serdyukov smiled at the reporters.
- So, did you say something special about your rivals? Otherwise, why would you break each other at the end of the match?
- Well, you know what the games of “Moscow” and “Tomi” mean ...
An indirect initiator of the clash was the “townsman” Peter Bystrov. It was he who decided not to hit the ball when the rival footballer was on the grass. Everyone had already stopped, and the hosts midfielder entered the penalty area, beat the goalkeeper and almost scored. The referee had no formal reason to stop the game. The moment was still going on, and on the other side of the field Kuzmin and Serdyukov were already clinging.
- You do not know about such a thing as “fair play”? - asked after the match with Bystrov.
“I know.” Just at that moment I did not see that their player was on the field. Therefore, he did not stop.
Note that a serious injury received forward “Tom” Alexander Shirko.
“I don’t know if there was a deliberate blow or not,” Valery Petrakov mused sadly. - We watched the video. Probably, a special commission will study this episode. Sasha has a broken facial bone. For us, this is a serious loss ...
Petrakov came to the press conference late. Although he was persistently called.
“Valery Yuryevich, it's time for journalists,” Maxim Motin persuaded him.
- And who are you? - the trainer was surprised. Relations with the press attache he clearly did not work out. - When I want, then I'll go.
- Of course. But in five minutes you can already be fined.
“Do I have five minutes?” Five minutes later, I’ll come.
It should be noted that this time no one at the stadium chanted "Pet-ra-kov!" Perhaps this hurt the specialist much stronger than the defeat.
Alexey Shevchenko