Oleg Romantsev: Silly to lose a match to its beginning.
Oleg Romantsev: Silly to lose a match to its beginning.
Last interview of the main trainer of a national team before a start in
Japan.
NOT YESTERDAY was born, therefore in miracles I do not believe. But I the fan,
Therefore I want, that it, this miracle, happens. I want, that
On the world football shows, everywhere called
Not too harmonious word for Russian hearing
mundial, we "have dried" Japanese, "have presoaked" Tunisians, "have torn"
Belgians and different other Swedes, becoming as a result
Champions. Those who can make for Russia a fairy tale bylju, already
Are in Japan, on training base in small town
Simidzu. Before the first game with Tunis, planned on 5
June, remains practically nothing. And last day stay
At home, it is literally for pair hours before flying away, in situated near Moscow to the Pine forest
We have met the main trainer of a Russian national team on
To football by Oleg ROMANTSEVYM. It would be necessary to understand, whether there is it
The wizard, the creator of miracles...
- Oleg Ivanovich, whatever questions now invented, speech
As a matter of fact can go only about one - about coming
The World championship. Tell as on spirit, what for us there waits?
- Heavy job...
- And where a holiday?
- Let's achieve positive result, we will celebrate, but
At first it is necessary popahat, povkalyvat on conscience. I can
To refer to own experience of the player: after difficult,
Intense match in which you give all the best up to the end, all is ill -
Hands, feet, the back, each muscle and a section, but is pleasant
Pain. Hardly standing you stand for weariness and all the same
You smile. If we will manage the preparation final stage to
To superiority to spend successfully and in games we will prove with the best
The parties, there will be an occasion to smiles. For now, I repeat, job,
Tough job...
- Be not surprised to that I will ask, but you do not regret, that
Our command has made the way in a final part of the championship?
- Not to be surprised? It is ready to respond to any, the most unexpected
Questions, but not on the silly... We aspired to get in
Japan, it is so much forces for the sake of it have put, and now to regret?
Brad!
- Speak: ahead heavy job with
Unpredictable result. podi from problems the head swells? And so it is quiet
Have gone on mundial in group of experts, would sit on
To tribune, matches would look, experience have generalised... The Main thing -
Demand any. Now after all to you for all to respond it is necessary.
As though the national team has acted, will be dissatisfied,
Which in all will accuse the trainer, that is you...
- Yes, will accuse, I know. And morally already I prepare to that
It is necessary to listen. No, not so: it is always ready to it. And
Where to disappear? A trainer's share. If it me not
Arranged, would go on journalism faculty, would become
Sports observer, would abuse others, gave advice, learnt
To play football... No, my job is pleasant to me. I not yesterday
Began this business to be engaged, there was time to understand, that the trainer
Always the extreme. Especially the trainer of the national team acting on
The World championship.
Perhaps only to the winner of claims will not be, and the others
Will not spare. All my colleagues are doomed to the rigid criticism.
It is good, if business is limited to words. Recollect, how in
Brazil on the areas burnt stuffed animals of trainer Feoly, when
torsida has counted, as if the command has ruined performance on
mundiale. Feola long could not return to the country, has not been assured
In own safety.
All trainers should enjoy sooner or later the bitter
Bowl, inevitably there comes the moment of resignation or voluntary
Leaving from the command. I do not have illusions on this bill. Another
Question, that, beginning the big business, silly and incorrectly
Internally to be adjusted on the worst variant. It is necessary to aspire to
To victory, it is impossible to lose a match to its beginning.
- And on what you are adjusted?
- Wish to learn, what performance of a national team I will consider
The comprehensible? Excuse, I will not answer a question. I ask me to understand: I am afraid
To maleficiate. I superstitious enough person, as, by the way, and
Many football players. At us it is not accepted to speak aloud about
Treasured desires. In my opinion, it is normal human
Reaction. One I will tell: we will make everything, that in our forces. However, not
I doubt, all national teams will fight in the championship without
Exceptions. Otherwise what sense there to go?
- Good, I will ask differently. Let's present, that you, Oleg
Romantsev, have no relation to our national team and
Represent itself as the foreign expert. Estimate chances
The Russian command in Japan and Korea.
- It is necessary to look at things it is realistic: domestic football
Youngish. Certainly, it is possible to recollect national team victories
The USSR gained of many years back on the European championship and
Olympic games, it is possible to consider itself as continuers
Nice traditions of the Soviet football, but on this inheritance with
Same if not with the big success have the right to apply and
National teams of Ukraine, Belarus or Georgia. More correctly all the same
To say, that we are in the way beginning. Thus we will not forget:
Football is absolutely unpredictable also any forecasts do not stand
Broken penny.
But if nevertheless to rely on a certain logic, to estimate
Game level of development in Russia it is possible to assert, that ours
The national team is worthy an exit from group. The further advancement to
To the ending it is problematic, hypothetical contenders - Turks,
Brazilians or Chineses (which I would not hurry up to dump
From bills, this command is pleasant to me) - have more
The bases to apply for a victory. However, much becomes clear
After first two rounds. While we are engaged in a guessing on
To coffee grounds, theoretical constructions. It is assured, game
Will destroy many stereotypes. There was no still a championship, where not
There would be surprises. It and tsenen football. It is not enough to be
Strong, are necessary still fart and good luck. It would be desirable to believe, in Japan
The luck will be on our party.
- It is considered to be, that carries always the strongest. You have made
Choice, having named surnames of 23 players. This your right. But,
Should notice, you and did not manage to disseminate doubt
Fans, that you took in the command really the best.
Are assured, Oleg Ivanovich, that in Russia as a companion spoke
Stalin, "is not present other writers"?
- In my opinion, no... If I have seen players, more
Useful to the command, than those who enters into it now, not
Doubt, immediately would call them on gathering, has switched on in the demand.
Whether you asserted ten minutes ago, that
Responsibility for performance lays on the trainer? And now judge:
Really I the enemy to itself? What reason to refuse services
The strong player, leaving its houses and putting in the field more
The weak?
- Whether Oleg Ivanovich is not enough in a life of reasons... You for certain
Read, that wrote in a press, making comments on structure...
- Did not read neither these comments, nor all the others. For a long time
Any more I do not take in hands of newspapers and magazines. Year three, on the extreme
To measure.
- What so?
- And what for? Me the subjective opinion of that a little interests
Or other author. One speaks one, another - is direct
The opposite... To what to hammer in a head similar things? I
Itself played the football, twenty years I work as the trainer and,
In my opinion, I can rely on own representation about
To game, not expecting another's councils, besides it is frequent councils
The amateurish... I live football, figuratively speaking, I am engaged in it
Day and night, why you think, as if I have more
Trust will call opinion of the person from the party, than my sight,
Based on knowledge of a subject of discussion from within?
Believe, I do not defy, saying, that I disregard
Publications about the job. One of these days met the main thing
The trainer of a hockey national team Boris Mihajlovym. Conversation has come
About a press. Boris Petrovich has told, that reads all about hockey,
But thus at once forgets any estimations, does not hold them in
To head. And I even to read I do not want. Time, forces, nerves
It is a pity. And, the most important thing: that new I can learn about myself or
To the command from newspapers?
- But if from the party to you of mansion say, that in a national team it is obvious
There is no Rolana Gusev and Sergey Ovchinnikova, can,
It is necessary to listen to these voices? So to say, at least in
Variety order.
- Concerning Gusev at me no doubts are present. I
Has arrived correctly, not taking it to Japan. On that position, where
Usually in club plays Rolan, in the national command apply
Stronger executors. It and Karpin, and Crests, and
Solomatin, and Alenichev... In the presence of such football players to Gusev
Was unreal to get to national team structure, and to use
It in other quality I did not see possibility. In this case
My error is excluded...
- And Ovchinnikov? Finish speaking, Oleg Ivanovich...
- As to Sergey... I Suppose, in this case I
Has made the miscalculation. I do not confirm it, but also I do not exclude.
I repeat: probably... So there were circumstances.
- How - so?
- You should understand, all about our internal affairs to you
Nobody will tell, it is perfect to what. But I can
To admit contrary to a popular belief, as if Romantsev
Objected Sergey's to arrival to the command. As
It is paradoxical, I was the only thing, who in the discussions which were passing
In a staff of our national team, defended nominee Ovchinnikova.
Therefore also I speak: probably, was mistaken, not having shown
Persistence.
- Leaves, last word at structure definition
Remains not for you?
- Certainly, for me, but, I repeat, if I have been assured in
To own correctness for all hundred percent, would insist. Not
Has dared...
- Has Perhaps put still that Sergey does not like the Moscow
"Spartak" also it is opened about it declares?
- What relation has "Spartak" to national team affairs? Whether it is not enough,
Who whom does not like? To me, for example, "Locomotive" not
It is pleasant. And "Dynamo". I too do not like CSKA. I do not like all! As
In another way? Same our contenders, competitors, but - in
National championship. Personal liking and antipathies should not have
Place when speech comes about the national command. I understand,
To Sergey is insulting to appear behind a board. I will frankly tell, and I
Not too comfortably myself I feel before it, see, even
Publicly I admit, but now it is not meaningful long
To speak about it. The die is cast. by us it was considered many,
Including psychological nuances. After all it is clear, that occurrence
Ovchinnikova would discompose Nigmatullin. What we
Have received as a result? There were still arguments against Sergey - and
Objective, and subjective... In general, to Japan others go
Goalkeepers.
... And about that, healthy atmosphere in the command is how much important,
Can judge on an act of the trainer of the Irish who have deducted
The unconditional leader and the captain of the Plenty Kin. There was a player,
Let and deserved to bring a distemper in collective - and ahead of schedule
Has gone home. A national team - the difficult mechanism working differently,
Than the club command. There the football player feels
Star, gets used to a role of the leader, and here it appears one of
Many. Not everyone is ready to submit to the general rules at once...
Trifles in job of the trainer of a national team does not happen. In calculation we take
Everything, including the factor of compatibility, skill to communicate,
We watch, that there was no grouping, division has not begun
By a club principle. Even behind a dining table we try
So to transplant players that nearby have appeared
Representatives of different commands. Let communicate...
- And why on base in Simidzu football players will live in steams?
Save on hotel?
- Economy here at anything. Players always live on two.
Sometimes happens, someone does not have not enough neighbour and then arise
Problems. Children on one do not wish to lodge! Present,
You should spend three in hotel of week, and even it is more.
What to sit in a single room where there is nobody a word
peremolvitsja, a joke to tell? Boringly, melancholy... In that,
Who with whom in a room will appear, I do not interfere, usually
Children state wishes to the captain, and it already then
Brings to me the definitive list.
- But if someone wants to retire, be to one?
Will give possibility?
- Without problems. Only after all will not want. Similar yet
Was in my practice.
- Quarantine at the command in Japan will be severe?
- Yes. I consider, for the sake of the World championship players can on
Some weeks to refuse small everyday pleasures in a kind
Appointments to wives or walks under the handle with the liked
Girls.
- Means, the exit for base limits will be forbidden?
- And what for to leave?
- Itself to show, at others to look.
- Think, to the football players of the Russian national team who has got in one
Group with Japanese, will allow to walk easy on streets? And in general:
To prove to be it is necessary on a game field. In base territory
There is all necessary for a normal life and preparation to
To tournament. Job is necessary big: except trainings,
Theoretical employment, viewing of matches of contenders... We not on
Resort we go. The free time hardly remains.
- Nevertheless wives of many our football players are going to
To fly to Japan.
- For God's sake! I can not and am not going to it of it to forbid.
People have bought tourist permits and go to support the.
Well, fine! Let come on stadium, support
The command. We even will help with tickets for matches. But it is all. In
Time of the championship of any contacts between players and them
Relatives!
- And for itself exceptions to do not begin, Oleg Ivanovich?
- Anybody from my relatives to Japan does not go. Neither the brother, nor children,
Even the grand daughter. The wife now in general in Turkey... To me so
More easy. Sometimes the spouse accompanies me on away matches
Leagues of champions and for a long time has acquired a rule: live, where you want,
Do, that you want, the main thing - do not stir, on eyes not
Be shown. I concern such things very strictly...
- Perhaps and mobile phones at players will select in
Avoidance of temptations?
- It will be at all humanly. Quarantine all the same not
Assumes full isolation from an external world. Another
Has put, that Moscow phones in Japan do not work, therefore
Organizers will give us the devices. It is necessary
Ten mobile on the command, but we want, that in everyone
To room children had phone.
- Establish a limit on conversations or it will be possible to read
Verses on distance of ten thousand kilometres?
- At the expense of a national team it is bought the 100-dollar telephone
Cards. In my opinion, the sum sufficient. To whom it will not suffice,
That to pay there are independently calls.
- And our TV in Japan can look?
- The problem such before technical service is put.
I hope, we will find possibility to accept in hotel pair
The Russian television channels. It is important. Though I also have told, that loading on
Players will lay down big, but all the same in the evenings it is necessary to children
With something itself will occupy. Has not put, if will start to kill
Time not those ways...
- Not that is it with what?
- For example, I against any games. Football, certainly, not in
The bill.... We have a private, gentlemen's arrangement with
Children, that two days prior to a match they do not touch maps,
Do not approach to a billiard table. Same all the same emission
Emotions even if there are no rates on money.
- And the computer as?
- Too it is bad. A harmful thing. Distracts.
- Saw at many collections laptops.
- Here we also will select them... Like and callous
zhelezjaka before you, and all the same it would be desirable it to beat, involuntarily
You start to be got, spend nerves, and the passion should be protected
For a football ground.
- Therefore and you leave houses the portable computer?
- To the trainer permissibly hardly to relax, but the laptop I
Really not I take. Videocassettes and books will suffice. We carry with
Itself quite good library of volumes on hundred, Victor Gusev,
Fulfilling duties of the press attache of the command, took in
"Ostankino" on hire a selection of good films...
- Now you that read? "A grass it is hidden nothing"... Not
Whether about football?
- No, it is the Swedish psychological detective. There is enough
The interesting book. Second time I re-read...
- That you, Oleg Ivanovich, on detectives have sat down, not news,
And here about your film predilections did not hear earlier. Is at
Commands a liked film, as, for example, "the White sun of desert"
At cosmonauts?
- Children like old Soviet comedies Gajdaja,
Ryazanov... Mood create.
- I know, you carry the cook to Japan...
- It already there. Has departed the day before to be prepared to
To command arrival.
- Products from Moscow has taken?
- What for? In Japan for certain all is. And quality should
To be excellent.
- Suddenly, for example, there the sauerkraut will not appear or
Kvass?
- And the cook on what? Let all makes sour...
- You have preferences in meal?
- Any. I not a gourmet to gluttonize I do not like and
I perceive a food as introduction process in an organism of fibers, fats
And carbohydrates.
- And to a land as concern?
- What is it?
- The Japanese meal. Crude fish or meat in fig.
- It is not necessary. Such I do not use. I do not like the exotic
Experiments with a stomach. It is better to eat the checked up food.
Land to Japanese we will leave...
- At you the hotel in Simidzu to what number is reserved?
- Till the end of the championship.
- So it is necessary or to show optimism want?
- Also it is necessary, and optimism...
- Whether it is a lot of in Russia of a psychosis round the championship? A rating
The powerful goes: command prowaters on ORT air, arrival
Vladimir Putin on base in the Pine forest... Directly as in the best
Soviet times!
- Anything the general! At all do not compare. In 80th year I played
For a national team of the USSR on the Olympic Games in Moscow. Here it was
Rating, I will tell to you! From us the victory, in the command demanded only without
The end there came any officials from the Central Committee, which without
Shades of doubts started to read lectures about football. Big-bellied
djadki left in the field, prevented to train and told,
That it is necessary to make for a prize. Once someone from players
Has not sustained and zapulil a ball in next "visitor"... Us
Carried to the Tomb of the Unknown soldier, to the Kremlin and in the Mausoleum,
Arranged a meeting with Maresevym... It is remarkable
The person, the present hero, but in day of game to football players nevertheless
It is better to think of a match, instead of to listen to patriotic speeches. After
First two rounds we wished one: that all somewhat quicker
Has ended - with any result.
Now conditions other. Certainly, for us hope, all the same
Russia did not participate eight years in world superiority, but
I would not began to speak about a rating. More likely, it is a question about
Attention to a national team. By the way, in the West in general consider, that in
Russia is very cool concern the forthcoming championship,
Do not believe in the command. Perhaps arrival of the President has installed
Optimism in souls of our fans? Anyway to the command
The meeting with Vladimir Putin has gone on advantage. Children
Could feel, their job is however important. Let remember,
What country behind them costs...
- Responsibility after all presses.
- Will not knock down! Arrival of the President, and everyones can prevent not
Leisure reasonings, and even conscious provocations
Extraneous people. At times after all there are things absolutely
The inadmissible. I already said, that for a long time newspapers I do not read, but
To football players of it I can not forbid. Your colleagues sometimes the such
Write... In the past, apparently, to year when we still played
Selection cycle of world superiority, to me have shown article,
Which could not be disregarded. The author
Confirmed, as if Nikiforov with Onopko distances specially have agreed also,
In my opinion, to Slovenes to score a goal in gate of Nigmatullin,
As, say, at Nikiforova bad relations with
Nigmatullin and "old men" have decided to teach a good lesson thus Ruslana.
How to characterise similar delirium? Classical podstava!
It was necessary to call to itself players, to understand...
Football players suggested to bring an action against liars, but I have told, that
It is a lot of honour. Well, children adults, not silly, have not given in
On provocation, and after all and conflicts begin. Someone
Has nursed a grievance and - has gone-has gone...
- Now in your camp all is quiet?
- Really think, would admit, be something not so? Even
If someone has fought yesterday on training, as Swedish
Football players, would tell, that at all of us it is absolutely normal...
- "If" or nevertheless have fought?
- It is hot Swedish guys fists to wave steels, and at
Me in one command anything similar done not happen. Though
Passion time on trainings boil, sometimes it happens
Even it is useful, the main thing that emotions did not burst forth.
However, at us in a national team enough skilled players, which
Head do not lose.
- Yes, skilled... In defence in general one veterans
Have stolen up, members of club "Those to whom for thirty"...
- And I in the passport to children do not look. I look at their game,
The relation to business. If 18-year-old boys so
plastalis, they would go to Japan.
- Let's finish speaking up to the end, Oleg Ivanovich.
Probably, and merits before the native land consider? Is at you
Inviolable - Onopko, the Roadway, Karpin...
- Something again on nonsense has pulled you. There is no caste
Elite. I repeat: in my opinion, in a national team today
The best are collected, the strongest. Before anybody from football players I not
I have debts or obligations. Last merits it is not counted.
Moreover, from veterans for any misfire, incorrect behaviour
There will be the most strict demand. Happen that, and they will go
Home, having repeated history of the Plenty of Kin. I hope, before not
Will reach also we will return to Moscow all together.
- Come back, Oleg Ivanovich, later. Do not hurry up,
Be late in the championship longer.
- Good wish. We will try to use it...
The author thanks the Russian modular A.Lvova's press attache
For the help in the interview organisation.
When number was imposed.
The Russian national team has arrived to the city of Simidzu where will be
To prepare for matches of world superiority. The command has already tested
Local training field then to players have allowed to have a rest
For difference overcoming in time between Japan and
Moscow.
Alas, in Japan our command the unpleasant surprise expected. Nearby
To base of the Russian national team there was a failure on the atomic power station. As
Informs Japanese agency Kiodo, a nuclear reactor of station
Has been muffled in 4:35 mornings on local time. Leak
Radioactive water has made 20 litres. Now the reason
Incident it is found out. Meanwhile, representatives of the mayoralty of a city
Simidzu have assured, that incident on the atomic power station will not render any
Influences on the organisation of job on reception of the Russian sportsmen.
Names of arbitrators which will serve became known
Matches of the first and second rounds of a group stage in the championship
The world.
Peter Prendergast will judge game Russia - Tunis, which
Will take place in a city of Kobe. This arbitrator lives on Jamaica,
He judges the international matches since 1996. It is necessary to notice, that
Experience at Prendergasta nevertheless it is small. A zone of its refereeing
It is limited to Caribbean basin where it worked on
Elimination matches and Gold Cup Konkakaf. Unique
Job - on the Olympic Games in Sydney.
And here Japan - Russia will judge a match the German referee
Markus Grew dim - one of the most authoritative and respected
Judges. In particular, he judged matches on the Olympic Games in Barcelona,
The European championship and a cup-final of champions. The judge on game
Russia - Belgium it will be appointed later.
Andrey Vandenko.
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//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 27.05.02
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