Former Main coach Russian national team and CSKA Moscow Leonid Slutsky got a dream job: - English "Hull City" on June 9 announced the appointment of a Russian specialist as a new team coach. What Slutsky did during the forced vacation and how he ended up in Foggy Albion - in the material.
Abramovich's new project
In December 2016, CSKA and Slutsky parted ways after seven years of living and working together. During this time, the army club has become strongly associated with the name of the coach and vice versa. The specialist brought a lot of positive to the game of the red and blue, but recently he has been increasingly criticized, and football played by CSKA has become more and more insipid. After an unsuccessful performance in the Champions League, it was decided to terminate the cooperation.
Slutsky did not sit idly by and began to embody "civilian" dreams (during the "army" service, the executive coach did not have the opportunity to do something other than football): he visited Antarctica, gained fame in a short but bright commentary career (worked at the Champions League match between Barcelona and Juventus), began to learn English.
According to him, a few months ago he did not know a word of English, but once again proved his readiness for new challenges: he learned the language at such a level that he calmly gave interviews to the British media, causing genuine admiration from journalists for his determination.
In this regard, there was active talk that Slutsky could lead the London Chelsea - the benefit of the coach is in excellent relations with the Russian owner of the "aristocrats". But the Londoners embarked on a victorious path (which eventually led them to the coveted championship), and rumors about Slutsky joining the club came to naught.
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But Slutsky still hoped to continue his career in Foggy Albion: information appeared that even if he did not pull the club English Premier League(EPL), then in the championship (the second most powerful football division in the country) he will definitely get a job and will not spoil the picture.
Slutsky himself openly admitted that his main priority now is employment in the UK. In one interview, he stated that he was Abramovich's new football project. Without underestimating Slutsky's coaching talent, it is worth noting that with such a patron, a place in one of the British clubs was practically guaranteed for a Russian specialist.
And here is the long-awaited news: Slutsky has been appointed head coach of Hull City. The team, although it left the Premier League at the end of the last season, is certainly not unknown - the Tigers have spent more than one year in the top division and have everything to return there soon. Details of the contract of the Russian specialist with the new club are not specified, but he will probably be given the task of climbing to the Premier League next season, and the further future of the coach in England depends on this.
Slutsky himself understands the importance of the task of reaching the Premier League: “I really hope that we will return to the Premier League. I know that Hull City - famous club with dedicated fans. I can't wait to get to work - it's going to happen next week."
The leaders of Hull City explained the invitation of Slutsky by saying that they like his way of thinking and ambitions. “After a careful selection, seeing Leonid's attention to detail, his ideas about the style of the game and his ambition, we singled him out of all the candidates. The club already has plans for the pre-season, interesting friendlies are planned, this will be announced next week. Planning preparation for the season together with Leonid is in full swing. Slutsky has enjoyed success both at club and international level and I am very pleased with his intentions to bring the club back to the Premier League,” explained Hull Deputy Chairman Ehab Allam.
Time of the first
Slutsky is the first Russian coach in Foggy Albion, but far from being the first abroad. A window to Europe was cut long before him.
At one time, the current mentor of the Russian national team worked in Europe. Six years of his football career were spent in Austria - the goalkeeper defended the colors of Tyrol. He hung up his boots in Moscow, but soon decided to become a coach. It is logical that to gain experience and take the first steps in a new field, he went to Austria, which has become almost native: Cherchesov managed to work with Kufstein and Wacker-Tyrol.
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After a long Russian stage coaching career Cherchesov again went to conquer Europe: this time a colorful specialist headed the Warsaw Legia. The Russian mentor was remembered not only for his eccentric communication with journalists, but also for his “golden double” - for the first and last season in Poland he won the national championship and the Cup with the team.
A real legend of the Spanish Celta, he preferred to start coaching at home. After several years at the head of the Moscow Spartak, the young specialist left the post and went to Spain - he was assigned to Mallorca, which was vegetating in the second division.
The team under the leadership of the Russian was in a fever: the disastrous start of the championship was replaced by a series of victories, which allowed the fans to hope to participate in play-offs for the right to advance to the top division. But Mallorca went downhill again, and after another defeat, the agreement with Karpin was terminated.
In addition to Cherchesov and Karpin, (AEK, Cyprus), (Yaro, Finland) and Dmitry Galyamin (Palamos, Spain) worked in Europe with varying degrees of success. Well, if you go beyond the Old World, then the main star of foreign championships will definitely become: an experienced mentor declared himself in South Korea, Japan, China, Turkey and even coached the main team of Cameroon.
It doesn't seem to me important who manages Hull, what plans they had for the season, what place was given to these plans. Leonid Slutsky and what mistakes were made along the way. In the same way, it is not significant, in my opinion, to what extent Slutsky's regalia and his achievements in the Russian championship (absolute), in the Champions League (comparative) can be called into question by his, so to speak, challic practice.
It does not matter, because the first did not interest me before, and will not interest me after. And for the second, I know the exact answer, which I will return to later. Let me say first about what is essential, important and beautiful in its own way.
"He can be great, but not with these idiots." Fans about the departure of Slutsky
Hull fans are sincerely sorry to part with the Russian coach.
Look, a year ago Slutsky left CSKA after last match in a group with Tottenham, and it looked dramatic. He went nowhere. big Russian clubs a coach was not required, CSKA seemed like a dry mine, where you could once dig up a lot of beauty, but everything in the past, in the year of leaving, was still a failure at the Euro.
No failure at the devil's horns in England can compare with this in terms of drama and negativity of the background. Well, yes, it was a well-fed, prosperous, well-known devil. But who cared about this "Hull"?
To be Russian and at the same time to buy Pogrebnyak to strengthen the composition means to be either a fool or a general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Championship is not worried about this at all. He excites when they break out of it and make noise there, like Bournemouth. Or just surprise like Huddersfield. Or when it's "Reading", which had a nice young Russian owner - do you remember his name? I remember. To be Russian and at the same time buy to strengthen the composition precisely Pogrebnyak- means to be either a fool or a general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As far as there is a wide spread in concepts, judge for yourself.
In general, this is the scheme by which we know the Championship. This is a place that is interesting to us, our public, mainly as a metaphor for such a dark basement, or an incredible depth, or almost a cesspool. When they get out of there into the light of day and turn out to be capable, it surprises us.
That same Huddersfield, right?
But this is a club with a history that goes beyond 100 years. And the story that the most inquisitive of Russian journalists are now learning about - how exactly did the relatively young German coach end up there, how they made their way through the playoffs, a wonderful story with season tickets that are sold at a loss of 100 pounds, because the owner promised it , playing a few more divisions below…
We will know all this now, but how? We're just translating it. And in England it was interesting at every stage of Huddersfield's life. Both documented and told. This is about the same as being surprised at the information from a physics textbook for the seventh grade, which is actually surprising only because it has not fallen into our hands before.
That is the price of absolutely any analysis of Slutsky's stay in Hull, made from Russia. This is a world (or little world), which we not only do not know, but which is completely alien to us. This is a curiosity and will remain so. For us "Hull", for the British Slutsky in it.
Leonid Viktorovich and I have quite different fields, but nevertheless, as a commentator, I spent the last year commenting on the Championship. Does this add anything to your knowledge of my career, its development or decline? No. I just disappeared. What is the experience I got there? Yes, I find it difficult to define myself. He definitely was, immersion in terra incognita will certainly carry him in himself. But what to talk about it, he is closed in himself. Like a callus: it is there - and if so, you definitely worked. Are you looking at calluses? Do you discuss with friends?
Don't be the quiet girlfriends of a dashing high school girl. Be sure she liked it. She was perfectly fine!
Incidentally, the British are interested in Slutsky to the same extent. All the same, in the most memorable way in its history, "Hull" was celebrated by a great writer Nick Hornby, but not even in the football book, by the way. How? Oh, you don't know that either?
But what am I getting at?
A year ago, Slutsky left CSKA even worse than nowhere. He went on vacation. In voluntary unclaimedness. This is a nightmare of any coach, of course.
Now Slutsky can choose. If we talk about Russia - anything but CSKA (and he already left there) and Spartak (and he would never have come there, a year ago for sure). "Locomotive" is also not required, but oh well; but Krasnodar, Zenit, Rubin… they just can't stop thinking about it. What exactly their interest is is a technical question.
In our football, for the twentieth or more season, Semin, Tarkhanov, Gadzhiev. Well, they are great, what can I say. But the place has been vacated, but there are no new coaches. That's what's important! Simply no. Neither Karpin, nor Grishina, nor Alenicheva(League 1, a great playground at 45) - and this is not about losers either, it's just about our football.
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Slutsky, understand, did not take risks. Even in the word “decided” there is a lot of pathos, because there are at most one and a half more people who could be offered such a job. It wouldn't have occurred to me.
Slutsky did not take risks, because he did not lose anything.
Is it a failure? Certainly.
That's just in vain you say: "He at least tried." Don't be the quiet girlfriends of a dashing high school girl. Be sure she liked it. She was perfectly fine! As that memorable anecdote said: "Sarah liked it too, and then she nursed seven gangsters, not counting the girls."
The question is different. Will Slutsky go to the conditional Zenit now? Or will it wait?
In fact, they can still call him to lead some team. And what, the championship in Russia, a Russian coach, with experience in big tournaments, and in European competitions, and in England. Any free team will think about it, except Saudi Arabia, but she is already struggling with prejudice, judging by the princes.
A year ago, Slutsky left, putting freedom of choice above all of all values. A year later, his choice is much wider and more diverse.
Yes, Hull was a failure. Unconditional. Unconditional.
But a year ago, Slutsky left, putting freedom of choice above all of all values. A year later, his choice is much wider and more diverse.
You are for Leonid Viktorovich, in general, do not worry. He is with us for a long time, and it will be an interesting story.
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Dossier
Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky was born in 1971 in Volgograd. His father died when Slutsky was only six years old. Mom worked as an educator in kindergarten and later its manager.
Slutsky began playing football from the third grade, studying at football school"Spartacus". He played as a goalkeeper in the Zvezda team. However, the "field" career of the budding goalkeeper was short-lived. Slutsky climbed to remove the neighbor's kitten from the tree and fell, crushing his knee joint. Since the young man could no longer play after the injury, he decided to become a football coach.
coaching career
Graduated from the Volgograd State Institute physical culture with a red diploma, Slutsky entered graduate school in 1993. At the same time, he began coaching career, working with a group of 12-year-old football players at the Volgograd "Olympia". In this team, he raised such famous football players as Roman Adamov, Denis Kolodin, Vitaly Kazantsev, Andrey Bochkov And Maxim Burchenko. In 1999, the club took first place in the "South" zone of the Amateur football league and won the Cup of Russia among the Collectives of Physical Culture (KFK). Olimpia won the right to play in the second division of Russia in football.
In 2001, the then head coach of the Elista "Uralan" Sergey Pavlov invited Slutsky to lead the backup team. In 2002 he took 2nd place in the championship among doubles. In 2003, after the relegation of Uralan from the Higher Division, Slutsky was replaced as the head coach of the club Igor Shalimov. After the disbandment of Uralan, Slutsky was offered a position as coach of the Moscow double.
In July 2005, he replaced the head coach of the main team of FC Moscow Valeria Petrakov. Under Slutsky, in the first match, the team beat Spartak - 3: 1. In the 2007 season the club last round claimed the first championship medals in its history and reached the final of the Cup of the country. At the end of the season management football club decided to dismiss Slutsky from the post of head coach. The media did not report the reasons for terminating the contract.
In November 2007, Slutsky became the new head coach of the team, replacing Alexandra Tarkhanova. On December 21, he signed a three-year contract with the Wings. In the very first season, he achieved 6th place with the team in the Russian championship, and at the same time brought the Volzhans to European competitions.
On October 9, 2009, Slutsky wrote a letter of resignation from the Wings of his own free will. It was accepted by the president of the club Igor Zavyalov.
To CSKA
On October 26, 2009, Slutsky was appointed head coach of CSKA, the contract was signed according to the 3 + 2 year scheme.
In 2010, CSKA, under the leadership of Slutsky, reached the quarterfinals in the Champions League, but dropped out of the tournament, losing on aggregate to Italian Inter. In the 2010 Russian Championship, the club took second place.
In May 2011, CSKA, under the leadership of Slutsky, won the Russian Football Cup for the sixth time, beating Alania Vladikavkaz with a score of 2: 1.
On July 13, 2013, CSKA beat Zenit 3-0 in the Super Cup match. After this victory, Slutsky became the fifth coach in history Russian prime minister league (RPL), which managed to win all the national trophies (before this, a similar result was achieved Yuri Semin, Valery Gazzaev, Luciano Spalletti And Kurban Berdyev).
From August 7, 2015 to June 30, 2016, he was the head coach of the Russian national football team. He replaced in this post Fabio Capello.
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A television
In his youth, Slutsky participated in KVN and played for the Third Sons team from Volgograd: in one of his performances, he sang a song, imitating the Detective from the cartoon In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians.
In 2006, he took part in the comedy show Good Jokes.
In the 2013 KVN Premier League final, he helped the MFUA team (Volgograd / Moscow) win by performing an extravagant dance on stage.
In the semi-finals major league KVN 2014 took part in "STEM with a Star", where he played the role of an amateur club coach from Dolgoprudny in the performance of the "Phystech Team".
Family
Wife Irina, a son Dmitry.
Achievements
Command:
- Finalist of the Cup of Russia: 2006/07.
- Flag of Russia CSKA.
- Champion of Russia (2): 2012/13, 2013/14.
- Russian Cup Winner (2): 2010/11, 2012/13.
- Winner of the Russian Super Cup (2): 2013, 2014.
- Silver medalist of the Russian Championship (2): 2010, 2014/15.
- Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship: 2011/2012.
Personal:
- Honored Coach of Russia.
- Best Coach of the year according to the RFU (2): 2012/13, 2013/14.
Leonid Slutsky - coach and for a very short period of time a football player who represented first the USSR and then Russia. He is still quite young for a coach - he is only 45 years old. When Slutsky was a footballer, he acted as a goalkeeper. Slutsky is a coach who is one of the most famous in Russia.
Brief career as a footballer
Slutsky is a coach known to every person in Russia, but how many people remember him as a player? Most likely, almost no one, and there are reasons for this. The fact is that Leonid's career did not work out at all due to a domestic injury. He was born on May 4, 1971 in the city of Volgograd in the Soviet Union and began playing sports at school. Eventually, he ended up in sports academy newly formed club "Zvezda" from Gorodishche. There he worked until 1989, when he was offered a professional contract - after all, Slutsky was already eighteen years old. He quickly began to take shape, got into starting lineup and even played 13 matches at a professional level when an incident fatal to his career happened. Leonid's neighbor asked him to take the frightened cat out of the tree, and the boy could not refuse. However, it all ended in failure - a branch broke off near Slutsky, he tried to grab another, which also broke off. As a result, he landed on his knee, falling from a height of the third floor. At that time, medicine could not do much with this, and Leonid's career came to an end. Doctors said that he would not be able to bend his leg at all, but perseverance young man allowed him to slowly and painfully develop the leg so that it could be used later. Naturally, he could no longer be a player, but he set himself the goal of becoming a coach. It is in this role that Slutsky is known to everyone - he turned out to be a very good coach.
The beginning of a coaching career
How did coach Slutsky come into being? The biography of a football player fits in one paragraph, but the biography of a coach is much more impressive. When Leonid was 29 years old, he began to practice coaching. His first place of work was the modest Olympia from his native Volgograd, where he got a job as a youth coach, but it quickly became clear that Slutsky was capable of more. Therefore, he worked there for the entire year 2000, and then took up obtaining a professional license. As a result, by January 2002, he had the right to coach professional clubs - this is how his road to the top began.
"Uralan"
The first club that Slutsky coached was Uralan, however, even there he did not immediately begin full-fledged activities. First, he was appointed coach of the youth team of the club, and he worked in this position for almost two years - in October 2003, the current coach of the club was fired, and Slutsky was given a chance. He took over the team and coached it until the summer of 2004 - during this time, Uralan, unfortunately, did not add much. In 25 matches under the leadership of Slutsky, the club played 24 matches, of which only six were won. 23 points in 24 games - this was far from the most impressive indicator, so Leonid moved to another club, namely, to Moscow.
Transfer to Moscow
Naturally, Slutsky did not immediately get the head coach position either: during the first season at the club, he coached the Moscow double, but in the summer of 2005 he received a promotion, taking the position of head coach. At the helm of this club, he stayed longer - a little more than two years. During this time, he managed to achieve impressive results: out of 95 matches, he managed to win 44, which was the beginning of his ascent to the top. This result was the best not only for Slutsky, but also for Moscow, which for the first time in history made it to the Eurocups. However, the club's management, long before the end of the season, decided, for unknown reasons, to terminate the contract with the coach. Therefore, in the winter of 2007, Slutsky was forced to look for a new job.
The new club with which Leonid Slutsky signed a contract in December 2007 was Wings of the Soviets - this is the first team that the coach led immediately, without starting with a double. Slutsky's results here were not as impressive as in Moscow, but still quite impressive - 22 out of 59 matches were won, and the club managed to get into the Europa League. After two years at the club, Slutsky wrote a letter of resignation in October 2009. It was then that information began to appear in the press that Leonid Slutsky was the coach of CSKA. After a couple of weeks, it became clear that this was true.
pinnacle of career
So, in October 2009, Leonid Slutsky changed his club registration once again. The CSKA coach, as soon as he was appointed to his position, immediately set the highest goals for himself and his players. In his first season, he took second place in the Russian Championship, in the second he won the Russian Cup, in the third he took third place in the championship, and only in the fourth year of his tenure at the helm of the club was he able to win the Russian Championship. In the same year, the club won the Cup, and in 2014 and 2016, he repeated the achievements, winning two more national championships. However, the 2016/17 season did not start very well for the coach, and already in December 2016 he voluntarily left the post. But it is worth paying attention to the fact that for some period of time he coached not only CSKA. Who else was Slutsky? Coach of the Russian national team!
Team coaching
In the summer of 2015, the Russian Football Union invited the current coach of CSKA to the position of head coach of the national team. Slutsky is the coach of the Russian national team! It was sensational news. He managed to achieve a lot with CSKA, so there were great expectations. The goal was a trip to the European Championship 2016, and Slutsky was able to lead the team there. The coach of the national team built the game well. However, at the tournament itself, everything went downhill. And this could not be controlled by Leonid Slutsky. The Russian coach made every effort to somehow force his wards to show at least some class, but all attempts ended in failure. The team played the first match with the British in a draw, which was a very good result, but this was followed by a defeat from the Slovakian team with a score of 1:2. The match with Wales was decisive, and the Russians could cling to the exit from the group if they won. But the result turned out to be the opposite - they lost, and devastatingly, with a score of 0:3. As a result, the team scored only one point in three matches and flew out of the tournament, while Slutsky immediately resigned. As a result, he played only 13 matches with the national team: 4 qualifiers for the European Championship, 6 friendlies in preparation for the tournament, and three directly at the 2016 European Championship. On the this moment Leonid Slutsky does not have a contract with any of the clubs.
Personal life
As for his personal life, Slutsky has a half-brother Dmitry. He also has a wife, Irina, with whom they had a son in 2008.
Leonid Slutsky agreed on a contract with the Dutch "Vitesse", the club of the highest division of the championship of the Netherlands - Eredivisie.
The Russian coach should lead the team from the start of the 2018/19 season. The agreement will be for two years.
Slutsky will become the first Russian to lead a Dutch club. Vitesse also signed a contract with Slutsky's assistant Oleg Yarovinsky.
Previously, the specialist worked with another European team - Hull City from the English Championship, but was fired from the Tigers camp in December 2017 for unsatisfactory results.
Mark van Hintum, technical director of Vitesse, noted that the Russian specialist has all necessary qualities to serve as head coach.
At the moment, the team is led by the Dutchman Hank Fraser, with whom she won the National Cup for the first time. Frazier is expected to move to another club after this season. According to De Telegraaf, the specialist did not get along with the leadership, which interfered too clearly in his work. For the same reason, Mo Allah left the club earlier.
It remains to be hoped that Slutsky will find a common language with the top officials of Vitesse, given that the owner of the club is a Russian businessman, and a Russian is a member of the supervisory board.
Since January 2018, he has been playing for the team Russian defender, who in the 2013/14 season played two matches for CSKA Moscow under the leadership of Slutsky.
The domestic specialist from August 2015 to July 2016 headed the Russian national team. He led the team to the final stage of Euro 2016, where national team failed to qualify for the playoffs. From October 2009 to December 2016, Slutsky was the head coach of CSKA, winning the Russian Championship three times, the Russian Cup and Super Cup twice each. In the 2009/10 season, the Moscow club reached the 1/4 finals of the Champions League.
In June 2017, Slutsky headed Hull, becoming the first Russian coach in England.
In December of the same year, the parties terminated the contract by mutual agreement. Yarovinsky left the club together with the head coach. By that time, Hull was ranked 20th (out of 24) in standings Championship with 19 points.
“Leonid worked tirelessly, worked honestly and with pleasure. Unfortunately, the results of the team did not improve, not justifying the hopes of both sides. This was the reason for the end of cooperation. I want to thank Leonid for their work and wish them success, ”the owner of the club, Asem Allam, commented then on the dismissal of Slutsky from the post of head coach of the team.
At the moment, the technical director of Vitesse Van Hintum and other specialists believe that the arrival of the ex-helmsman of the Russian national team is a good opportunity for the team to improve results. Van Hintum, among other things, stated that during the negotiations the club did not have a problem with Slutsky.
“Slutsky is an open person with clear views. He is charismatic and speaks excellent English. So we didn't have any problems.
It's great that we hired a person with great international experience, who learned a lot. He coached the national team for free and had great success with CSKA. Yes, we will have something different here. Something new, but I got positive feedback about it. He will be the first Russian in the top Dutch division, ”quotes the director of Omroep Gelderland.
Van Hintum also told how Slutsky's candidacy was approved. According to the technical director, it was possible to invite him thanks to the connections that the club has, because otherwise the Russian coach would not have accepted the invitation from Vitesse.
“Slutsky's candidacy was put forward at the supervisory board. It seems to me that without our connections it would be difficult to invite him, he is a coach with that name.
I am not talking about money, because I am convinced that the coach had other offers. He could have found a job anywhere, but he chose Vitesse,” Van Hintum said.
The Dutch coach Robert Muskant, in turn, appreciated the appointment of a Russian specialist to the post of Vitesse's mentor no less positively.
“I am in favor of having my own coaches in Holland, but in the championship they are guided by the qualities of a specialist.
Slutsky - good coach, he achieved success in Russia. I won’t be surprised if eight or nine Russians appear in Vitesse in the near future, ”
Muscant told vi.nl, after which he curiously commented appearance Russian coach. - Slutsky looks always drunk, but as far as I know, he does not drink alcohol at all. This is unusual for a Russian.”
Vitesse plays in the top division of the Dutch championship. Based on the results of 27 rounds, the club with 41 points takes the sixth line in the standings, 27 points behind the leaders PSV. The team has seven games left to play this season.
The Russian got a second chance in Europe after the departure of their Hull. At the very least, one can be proud of the fact that Slutsky became the first Russian coach to head a Dutch club, and he is not afraid to work in Europe at all.
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