WHILE THE MOSCOW SUN was ending the first tanning session this year, the players of the Russian national team fled one by one from the Dynamo stadium. On a warm spring evening, only three people met in the glade of the ancient arena: Guus Hiddink and Igor Korneev stayed to talk with one of their wards. “You have excellent data, man,” said Hiddink through the lips of Korneev, while the player looked shyly into the ground. “If you work hard and develop this data, everything will succeed.”
The soccer player who received an audience at the end of the training is called Evgeny Savin. The provincial strong man from Amkar was first called up to the national team on the eve of the football-political match with Estonia and immediately became one of its symbols. Torbinsky, Shishkin, Efimov, Savin, and Rebko healing his jaw, who are just starting to conquer club football, but who have already gained access to the main team, are the forerunners of the fact that one generation will soon change one generation in the first team of Russia. Egor Titov, leaving for his pregnant wife and, apparently, forever saying goodbye to the team, said that the future was with new faces. Those who are still going to cheer for the Russian team in the near future should get used to Savin's face.
HOMELAND
Despite the rather tender age, Savin is reputed to be one of the main nomads of the Premier League. Towards the end of April he will be congratulated on his 23rd birthday, but he has already managed to change seven clubs. Double “Rotor”, “Ryazan-Agrokomplekt”, double “Lokomotiv”, “Tom”, “Anji”, “Khimki” - career surfing was interrupted last year at Perm “Amkar”. “Yes, it will be too much,” Savin responds to my calculations. - The path to the Premier League was not easy. Few of the coaches believed in me, so I had to prove and change clubs. In Tomsk, for example, in 2004 I had to break through from a depleted reserve. But nothing: he started the season with the fifth striker, finished the first substitute, went on the field, scored goals. ”
Playing for Tom, Savin broke up with his childhood dream - to play against the Premier League team and score a goal for it. In the 1/16 Cup of Russia, the Tom, which was only ripening for access to the elite division, butted with the Kuban. The decisive Krasnodar match ended in a 3-1 victory for the hosts, but it was Savin who scored the only Tomsk goal. “Now that you are in the Russian team, in all its splendor and splendor, does that dream amuse you?” “What are you! A dream must be respected. Just then she was so simple. Then she transformed into a new one - to play in the team of the main team of a good club. And it came true: I stand for Amkar, in the debut season I became the top scorer and player of the club, I got into the youth team, which I always really wanted. Now the turn of the new dream is to join the national team and score a goal. ”
For the fulfillment of the second, Amkarov’s dream, Savin was recognized as the best athlete of 2006 in his native Tobolsk. The district center in the Tyumen region, called the ancient capital of Siberia, never gave a football crop, because Savin is especially proud of his achievement: “For the first time, the athlete won from the team view. Still, the city is more famous for its ski and biathlon school. ”
- Could you become a skier or a biathlete?
- Excluded, zero chance. In my life there was only football. From the age of 10 he studied, constantly disappeared on football fields, because of this he did not study and angered his parents. Although I like winter sports. In class two or three he played hockey and even scored a goal in one game. There was some kind of match between the districts, I went out the center forward, we won 4-0, and I put one of the pucks. Oh, cool memories!
AT THE BOTTOM
Parting with the homeland and childhood Savin arranged "Rotor". “There was a signal from Tobolsk that there are two players - they took, looked, left,” recalls Rochus Shokh, the former gender of the “Rotor”. - The youths were led by Yuri Marushkin, and the guys came to us sensible. When Savin arrived, we had the best sports boarding school in the country and a good major league team. Then the "Rotor" began to take. Savin felt that he had no prospects in this team, and actually ran away from the city. We met with him recently in Perm and had a good chat. He is grateful to Volgograd - without this city he would not have worked out anything. ”
The flight of Savin was directed to Ryazan. “Oooh,” Savin's eyes soar at the mention of the local club. - My first adult team. The trainer - Ryazan specialist Sergey Ponomarev - often let me out even in defense. He sees that the young is trying, and throws him on the field, if only to put him. Vasya Baranov is playing there now, and in those days there was no money or tasks. For that year, I concluded: it’s better never to get into the second league. Unless you are 18 and you play with peers and an ambitious coach. In other cases, this is degradation. ”
Of the cities that Savin managed to explore during his intricate career, not only Ryazan is causing trembling. “As part of Tomi, we came to Makhachkala to play against the local Dynamo. At first glance, I didn’t like the city, and we were also accommodated in the hotel. We lived in the same room with Oleg Shishkin. I went out onto the balcony and said: "Oleg, God forbid someday to live here." Six months later, I ended up in Makhachkala - at Anji. According to further impressions, Makhachkala turned out to be a normal city. True, when I lived there, nine explosions happened in one month - they blew up the bus, then the police, then the officials. ”
AMKAR
A call to the Hiddink team finally confirmed Savin in the position of a Perm celebrity: in the history of Amkar there were not a single player of the Russian national team. Savin's rise is yet another argument in favor of the fact that now everything is not so bad at Amkar. In the offseason, the Perm club almost lost financial fertilizers from the main sponsor and scraped for the season a little more than the country's poorest club - Spartak from Nalchik. However, a successful start in the championship - Rostov's flaw and a draw with Spartak - temporarily removed Amkar from the list of main contenders for relegation from the Premier League.
Savin, hearing the words “Amkar” and “relegation” in tangible proximity to each other, smiles maliciously: “One former coach of the Russian team - I will not give his last name - somehow coached the team that everyone put on the relegation. Before the season, he said: “Let's see who pisses above the fence.” Let anything be said and written about Amkar, so long as we win. ”
“I never hid the fact that I liked Zenit for the football he played under Petrzhel,” he continues the conversation about the tournament layouts. - I really liked the bunch Kerzhakov - Arshavin, and I'm happy that I ended up with them in the same team. Now Arshavin played in full force, but Kerzhakov left. “Zenith” lost in the entertainment, but will win as a result. No, he is not a wholly-owned champion; there are many applicants for gold. Who exactly? Amkar, then CSKA, Spartak, Zenit, Lokomotiv.
- Amkar? Is this corporate ethics like that?
- No, we really are not afraid of anyone. To be completely happy, we must get into the top three with Amkar. If you look a little more realistic, then 5th place will be a success.
In today's Amkar, Savin scores the most not only on the field. In the ranking of the billiard team - the traditional hobby of most players in the Russian Premier League - they keep the first line behind it. “A new goalkeeper came to us here - Sergey Narubin from Bryansk. He says that a master of sports teaches him to play, he even bought his own cue, a cover. Well, I did it calmly, 5: 1 in batches. The poor fellow probably doesn’t sleep after that. ”
“I have a lot of hobbies,” Savin interrupts himself. - I love karting. Here in Thailand recently traveled with a girl, so constantly raced. She and I have a long-standing zarub: we ride wherever possible, it comes to a squeal. ”
- The girl’s name is Lena? All the same that you talked about in all your interviews, no matter what clubs you travel to?
- She is. We met in Tobolsk. It’s time to get married, but still there’s not enough time. Lena is still studying in St. Petersburg, all these years we live in different cities. It's hard, but if people really love each other, then you can cope with distances. Her last year in St. Petersburg remained. But we have already bought a small apartment there and are thinking of living there. Peter is a cool city, if only to fix the winter. Make it Siberian - so that frost, snow, everything crunches underfoot.
TEAM
All-Russian love came to Savin last year - exactly after the first match with the Portuguese youth team. The inspiration for this feeling was not the ram game of the Perm striker, who scored a goal and almost dragged our youth team into the final part of Euro 2007, but the post-match interview. “It was just a great show, it hit me at the corner of my head and flew into the goal,” the comment Savin gave right after the final whistle circled the entire Runet in the YouTube video format.
“Does your head really have a corner?”
“No, of course!” In that match, just so many emotions fell on me, so I issued such a pearl. Firstly, no one expected us to win - and even with a score of 4: 1 - against the best team in Europe. Secondly, when our anthem was played before the match, the Russian flag was unfurled on the whole platform - it’s worth living for that! It is a pity that in the return game I got injured and left the field, and we lost. It was a shame - Borodyuk gathered the best players in that team, and for me she became native. Well, nothing, now I’ll try to get married with the new team - Hiddink.
Yuri DUD, PROsport