The football traditions of Barnaul were influenced by the arrival of Gennady Gusarov, Yuri Vshivtsev and Anatoly Suslov from Dynamo Moscow. It happened in the late sixties.
Gusarov is generally a professor. Of course, such personalities taught Barnaul residents to play football. One of those who grew up on their matches, Volodya Kobzev, nicknamed the Crystal Head, then scored the winning goal for Torpedo in the 1986 Cup final.
There are very strong children's coaches in Barnaul. Who played at Tempe during their sports career. For example, Alexander Gorbunov.
Gorbunov is seventy, but he continues to work. He wants to bring one more issue to adult football. I think he will succeed.
Gorbunov: There are not so many Barnaul players in the national team. Two people. Well, Erokhin was the third. We have a player of this level in about every generation. Once every five to ten years. This is normal.
Barnaul has no advantage. On the contrary, now in terms of training conditions, we are worse than other regions. There is only one private riding hall left in the city. We have lost many halls.
Why did three of my 1986 team make it to the Premier League? Then we opened an artificial field, thanks to this we pulled ourselves up to other regions. And then all such fields appeared - and not one at a time, but several. And we began to give in again. The 1986 team was the champion of Russia among more than sixty teams of the second league. 1997, for which Sobolev played, was the second in Russia. And now the youth teams of Barnaul do not even make their way to the final tournament.
Previously, children rarely left, but now the boy almost stood out: immediately - Moscow, Krasnodar, Kazan. Now it is more difficult for Barnaul children's coaches to bring a player to adult football. As it was with me and Sobolev. He trained in normal conditions for Siberia - twice a day. We did snow training a couple of times a week. Even the winter championship of Barnaul was held on the street. Sasha recalled in an interview that he played at minus twenty: “It's okay. Tempered. " In Barnaul, you need to overcome, endure.
Alexander Sobolev
Gorbunov: On vacation, Sasha came to Barnaul. I came to the games. Usually all of my graduates gather at the end of December, for my birthday. We arrange a match between adults and little ones. Recently Sasha sent us balls, otherwise we ran out.
It is a pity that he has recently received little playing time at Spartak. Previously, Tedesco released him at the start, and now - in the second half, when the opponent got tired. In the endings, Sasha strengthens the game. Creates pressure. His performances helped Spartak - with both Tambov and Zenit. I hope he will get playing time in the national team.
ZHIROV
Gorbunov: Sasha Zhirov started at the Polymer school, and then moved to Dynamo, where he was coached by Igor Ponomarev, himself a former defender. As a child, Zhirov was fat, not very fast, but with a very good kick from his left foot. He scored a lot from afar - especially in futsal tournaments. So now he has a set hit, a good long pass.
Over the years, Sasha has grown, pulled himself up. Became lean. Very friendly, calm guy. At the same time - with a punchy character. Thanks to him, he got into the national team through the second German league. In Germany, he grew up as a footballer and became the captain of Sandhausen.
Erokhin
Lyamkin: Sasha is a graduate of Dynamo Barnaul. I would compare him to Smertin: in childhood he did not stand out much, did not have outstanding data, but what was laid down by nature and trainers, he used one hundred percent. Through perseverance and efficiency. A very responsible guy. Young people need to take an example from him - how to keep themselves in shape and prepare for matches. Sasha is soon thirty-one, seemingly an advanced football age, but in the game "Spartak" - "Zenit" he was one of the best on the field.
Erokhin and Sobolev are united by the fact that they are team players. It seems to be in plain sight, they are gaining whists for themselves, but they still try for the good of the team. I think Sobolev gets the same pleasure from assists as he gets from scored goals. I am glad that he moves to the middle, helps in the selection.
Dupin
Gorbunov: He started out as a goalkeeper, then he said, "I don't want to be in goal." He played in the field, and later gave up football altogether. He left for the army, came back, became a goalkeeper again. He has a fighting spirit.
Recently, we went to a tournament in Kazan, and Yura came to our locker room. He said that he was developing very well at Rubin. Says: “At thirty I thought that I already knew everything in football, but in Kazan I learned a lot of new things. I have added in my understanding of the game ”. This means that you can progress even after thirty.
Lyamkin: Dupin worked in the sports section of the Carriage Repair Plant, then in Dynamo. In what schools and teams I have not visited. It seems that he passed the KFK - PFL - FNL route twice, until he got into the RPL.
Lyamkin: Previously, we had only the Dynamo sports school, but now the school named after Alexei Smertin has grown. For example, Ural's midfielders Artem Shabolin and Khimki's midfielders Kirill Bozhenov, who scored against Lokomotiv for Khimki on Sunday, grew up in it. And in Khimki's double there is a defender Sergey Mizgirev. A pupil of our other school - "Polymer".
We have schools, they work productively, but there is a problem: salaries are very weak. Fifteen to seventeen thousand. Officially, they write that they pay more so that we are not in last place in Siberia, but in reality the salaries are low. Coaches have to collect from parents. Who will give how much. So that it would not be completely sad.
Now we have revived the semi-professional team "Temp", in which I myself played in Soviet times. She is coached by my pupil Vanya Starkov - the team is in the lead in the championship of the Altai Territory, although it is participating in it for the first time. Temp has a private school. She does not receive money from the budget. This is good - even more children in Barnaul can play football.