MOSCOW, 18 Apr. The former goalkeeper of Spartak Anzor Kavazashvili, in an interview with the printed version of the Metro edition, spoke about the fixed match of the team in the USSR championship. Kavazashvili described the game against Chernomorets Odessa in the 1970 season. Spartak did not play fixed matches. But with me, the guys sold one match. Meeting with «Chernomorets» at the finish of the championship in 1970. The inhabitants of Odessa fought for survival, and we took third place regardless of the result. Before the match, they worked such “miracles” — the girls were sent to our rooms the day before the game, «said the goalkeeper. The veteran of Spartak added that he suspected something was wrong in the first half, when the team was outright losing the center of the field and he had to work hard. During the break, Kavazashivili and Muscovites defender Yevgeny Lovchev turned to coach Nikita Simonyan. However, neither he nor Nikolai Starostin, who came to the conversation, supported the suspicions of an agreement. «At the end of the first half, he took the ball from our attacker in a jump. And he yells with a good obscenity: «What the hell are you, f ****, Anzor, you take everything and take it ?!» When the second half came out, I was already angry. In the last minutes we still scored, lost — 0:1. Everyone in the locker room was dead. And then someone said very loudly: «At least you would share the money!» I even wanted to finish after this match. «Spartak» on Monday celebrates the 100th anniversary of the club. The team is a 10-time champion of Russia, the last time it won the trophy was in the 2016/17 season.
