Former midfielder of the national teams of the USSR and Russia Andrey Kanchelskis in the second part of the conversation with Sport smashed domestic football , recalling Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Buzova, Zarema Salikhov, amateur managers and again hinted at the unscrupulousness of the World Cup match with Spain.
Guberniev said: «Do not criticize Zenit» strong>— Recently in an interview you said that the match between Russia and Spain at the World Cup 2018 was bought.
— I didn't speak specifically about the Spanish national team, I meant the entire World Cup.
— How is it?
— I think there is no need to touch on this topic, because then they raised it, there were enough fools — they said that I was recruited. We have a lot of idiots with a sick imagination. Everyone knows perfectly well that this is true, but they are afraid to simply say that everyone is engaged in populism. But in fact football people know about it. They can't change their mind and change their shoes now. They will go to Dom-2 and tell fairy tales. Dom-2 is Match TV. Do you know why he called it Dom-2? When I came to them and saw people from the Comedy Club, then Buzova came, shouting, interrupting. Guberniev tells me: «Don't criticize Zenit. Why should I not criticize? You ask my opinion, I answer you. Buzova comes there and starts talking about football. football show?
— We have one federal sports channel. Football people should come. The whole country is looking at this disgrace. Some stories are told that everything is fine with us. During the World Cup, we closed 11 professional football clubs — no one talks about this. Can you imagine how many unemployed football players? What can a player do besides football? Okay, at a high level, he could save some money, but if a player from the second league, where will he go — to the factory? These scoundrels closed 11 clubs.
When I worked at Ufa, we had training camps for three months, and in order to dilute it a little, I made a chess tournament. In Soviet times, they knew how to play checkers. Now a 30-year-old football player is sitting, he has two children, and they put a child's checkmate on him — these are four moves. Football and chess are compatible things. Intellectually, many players are not developed at all. It should be embarrassing. Our young people are like this now — they are all vulnerable, don’t touch there, don’t touch here, it hurts here, don’t give loads, some frail ones have become both physically and mentally. But they have good contracts, they earn. In our time, there were other values.
strong>— In your opinion, who of the current young generation has the opportunity to play in the English Premier League?
— None.
< — In general?
— There is no such thing at the moment.
< strong>— Chelsea have recently been interested in Arsen Zakharyan.
— Why didn't you go?
— Payment failed, could not transfer money due to sanctions.
— Stop it. You listen to these stupid people who sit on «Dom-2». This is such nonsense. Look, if they wanted to buy it, they would. If they wanted, they would have found any way. Storytellers tell it all. If on a federal channel in England, let's say the BBC, some people from show business suddenly came and started talking about football, they would have been stabbed to death right away.
— Is football now show business?
— Has turned into it. What can I discuss with Buzova? How does she sing or how did she enter the Moscow Art Theater? Tells tales. How else do they take her to the Bolshoi Theater. The problem is that people listen and think that everything is fine.
—Recently, a fan threw a banana at Zenit player Wendel.— Malcolm and Claudinho received Russian citizenship. Why do you think they need it?
— If they feel comfortable living here, why not. They get that kind of money, they don't pay taxes, they are kissed on the same spot. Everything is fine, great life. They will never earn that kind of money in Europe. Let them have this passport, maybe this is for show to someone. I am fine with this.
— Do the Russian team need them?
It's not for me to decide, I'm not a coach. Let Karpin decide.
—Many people say that we don't need legionnaires in the national team.
—If the Football Federation gives the green light, let they understand it themselves.
— There are opinions that Russian footballers should be given way.
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— If there are no these Russian footballers, what then to do? Maybe this is the way to go, if football is really being killed in our country, it is getting worse and worse.»Zarema and Smorodskaya are starting to take offense»
— What needs to be changed then in Russian football? — Everything.
— What's everyone?
— When I arrived in 2004, I said that we were 50 years behind. In the Soviet Union, there were values and traditions. We screwed it all up. It is necessary that not amateurs, crooks and crooks work, but football people who are really eager to develop football.
— Is it about people?
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— Well, of course, if football people do not work in the federation. I have respect for Simonyan, who is 95 years old, but he can no longer make global decisions. When people come to the Football Federation to solve crossword puzzles or transfer pieces of paper from one place to another, then what kind of development can we talk about.
— Maybe, but he must have good advisers so that there is mutual understanding between him and a football person. If we had 50/50 in the football federation, then maybe there would be progress, otherwise we have 99 percent of non-football players and one of football players.
— You spoke negatively about Olga Smorodskaya and Zarema Salikhova. How do you feel about women in football?
— Both Zarema and Smorodskaya begin to take offense. Let me give an example of the ex-director of Chelsea Marina Granovskaya. She is a manager. She does not talk about which players should be taken. She really does her job. I have a good attitude towards women in football, but when they start to speak out — this player is bad, this one is good, remove that one, leave this one — I want to ask, where are you going? You have never played football, even women's football, and you start teaching football people.
Can you imagine, the president of Real Madrid or Manchester United will run onto the field and take the cup from the player? Isn't she (Smorodskaya) ashamed herself? The same goes for Zarema. I have never heard from Granovskaya statements about the players and coaches about the result on the field. You know, when people get to some piece of bread, they are carried and they begin to think that they are the smartest. If everyone does their own thing, then there will be progress. Therefore, Smorodskaya did not last long (as president of Lokomotiv). The manager who worked under Abramovich (Granovskaya) does not go where she doesn't need to.
— What are your plans for work now? strong>
— Arrived from Dubai, negotiations are underway, there is communication, we are working.
— In the UAE?
— Europe and Asia, one might say. We wait. It's good that they didn't refuse. I played in Saudi Arabia, I know that the Arabs are a very specific nation. They can never be rushed. I talked with both sheikhs and princes. I think that at the end of March or in April there will be news, because the championship ends. And there are negotiations in Europe, I won't say which ones. You have to try everywhere to find a job. There were offers from the Medialeague here as well.
— Are you interested in the Medialeague?
—I was offered to coach, but I'm not interested. Let's not even talk about it, let them look for another candidate.
—What other proposals from Russia were there?
—There was no specific one.