Andriy Yarmolenko -The players are people too

The leader of the "Dynamo" and the Ukrainian team in a conversation with the correspondent "SE" and "Sports Week" drew a line under the most unfortunate season of the capital team in the history of independent Ukrainian championships.


The winning MOOD

- Triumph team in Montenegro somehow brighten up gloomy feel of a failed national championship?

- Such victories are always uplifting.

But it should be understood that this is not the end we still have a few games, and they need to spend with no less responsibility than in Podgorica.

- Michael Fomenko admitted that the players do not complete this task for the season "Dynamo" and "Dnepr" came to the team in a difficult psychological condition. It is, in fact it was so obvious?

- I must admit, in the memory was still fresh setbacks club season. But I would not say that we did a database with views of the oppressed or avoided talking to each other. So happened that, arriving at the location of the team, the players, "Dinamo", "Miner", "Dnepr" or "Metalist" immediately forget how to fight with each other in the Premier League. It is able to make a joke, sneer each other, but - only in a friendly way. I do not recall anyone was offended by these jokes.

- The head coach of the national team has sent out letters to the clubs with gratitude for the preparation of collections and grant them an additional week of vacation. On the length of your vacation is something to say?

- We are in the "Dynamo" and so have added as many as five days: if the rest of the team is going to Concha Zaspa June 14 national team players are waiting for the 19th straight at training camp in Austria. This timetable was announced after the end of the championship, and of any changes since then have not been reported.

- After the Battle of Podgorica is easy to guess what kind of match last season caused you the most positive emotions. And what - the biggest disappointment?

- I probably would have called all the games of the Premier League, where we had to win, but lost points, and that was not enough for the second and even more so for first place.

CHAIN ​​REACTION

- If you had one word to assess their feelings about the Ukrainian championship, which would fit more - disappointment, anger, sadness?

- Probably, anger - this is the most accurate description. But anger is not on any external factors, but in ourselves. We should, angry, review related to the case - after all, our club collected strong players, including the speakers for their national teams. Guys need to understand where they play: we just can not hold third place.

- I do not accidentally asked about anger: in the course of the season many of your partners in the "Dynamo" angry at refereeing. Do you share their feelings?

- Judges, of course, wrong. But I repeat: in the first place to look for the causes of failure in itself.

- Premier League opposed the preservation of the next season in the judging panel of two additional assistant referees, but the executive committee of the Federation did not agree with them. And you have found favor in the fact that the judges were more?

- I honestly do not care how many of them will be - three, five or seven. As I understand it, this reform has been started to reduce the number of errors. But four of the six of us work or a judge - any particular change, I must admit did not notice.

- This season of "Dynamo" started with one coach, and ended up with another. 're Right there are those who say that the roots of failure "Dynamo" is to be found exclusively in the forced last summer pre-season training?

- It would be ugly to shift the blame for Yuri Semin. Since the task is not mastered everything - and the coaching staff and players. Played as if Semin, and at Blokhin. In addition, we in fact were not only summer but also winter collections.

- Meanwhile, Semin himself admitted that the whole season was at stake for the sake of access to the Champions League group stage - and there could not care less. You have the most, to be honest, there is no sense that the peak shape, and with it the decline will come too soon?

- But somehow never thought about that. He worked at the training camp as used to - in full gear, and would not have said that last summer the load we were more intense, or, conversely, more modest than usual. I think it's all about psychology: we have twice lost with a score of 1:4, "Miner" and "PSG" - and the boys have lost confidence in their abilities. The usual thing: Fixated on one defeat, you risk losing again. Chain Reaction ...

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

- But the impression that the recession did not begin in September Donetsk and Paris, and in August of Poltava. After the defeat of "Vorskla" you lost menhengladbahskoy "Borussia" in the native walls, and the opponent was enough to score in the end just one goal to pass on for you ...

- And it was associated with psychology. We had no doubt that the away win with a 3-1 for the overall success will be enough, and that's started the second leg of the defense. And when missed the first goal, there was panic.

- In this situation, you probably breathed a sigh of relief when Brown Ideas played a ball, and soon - the final whistle sounded.

- This feels relieved after any game - even if the score is 4-0 or 5-0 in your favor. After all, the team completed the task won. In the Champions League before the "Dynamo" was a clear goal to get into the group stage, and if we offered a pre-victory in Mönchengladbach 3:1 and 0:2 defeat in Kiev that on aggregate paved the way forward, we probably would have agreed.

- Many have predicted then resign Semin. And when you feel that it is inevitable?

- My job - not to talk about such issues, and to work with any trainer, proving that I'm worthy of a place in the lineup. But to dismiss the coach or give a person carte blanche - it's the president of the club.

- Rumors that Oleg Blokhin was so disappointed with the team's performance in the away match against "Tavria" that right in the locker room has written a letter of resignation, you're in a recent interview, laughing denied. And if ever ever hear from the current coach of "Dynamo" emotional: you got me, do not want to work with you?

- Never heard of anything like it.

- And the biggest dressing, arranged Blokhin after the match, ready to remember?

- Not ready. In memory'm not complaining, but what's going on within the team, should, in my view, there remain - for internal use only. Let me just say that every good teacher must be able to at the right time as praise and shout. All coaches, which had a chance to work in "Dinamo", and perfectly able to do both. That's only because of the circumstances that gave someone the result, and someone - no.

WORST TIME

- Care Semin coming Blokhin, serious illness of a new coach ... As these events are reflected in the team?

- As for the disease Oleg Vladimirovich guys are very experienced. Football football, but the value of human life with nothing to compare. A change of coaches ... This is a normal process: one leaves, another arrives.

Nothing lasts forever, but that in such moments are never in a team, it's indifference. When the coach was dismissed, the players are looking forward to the information: who will be the successor.

- At what point did you feel that the "Miner" is no longer to catch up?

- Calling you a specific day and time I, of course, I can not. But after the end of the first lap, I think it became clear who the champion.

- The miners are really gone to a fantastic break, but for a long time, it seemed that much silver, then the "Dinamo" will not miss. "Dnepr" out of the fight for the second ticket to the Champions League you are knocked out in a private meeting at the "Olympic". And that prevented play decently with "Metalist" in Kharkov?

- Probably, "Metalist" and prevented. In Kharkov, there was a great team that has made a good staff in the offseason acquisition. Played she showed impressive football and regularly achieved results. As for our game ...

The first half we failed. Played badly, having given almost the worst time for the championship. But nevertheless, went on a break, losing only one ball, and if fortune smiled - and the moment was for me, and Brown - still do not know how to end a match. But in the end we broke down the missed second goal - and the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

- For non-league task for you and your partners in the season have been fined?

- This is probably also not correct to speak to the press. But if you ask whether we deserve punishment, I will answer in the affirmative. Third place - obviously not for us.

Set priorities

- Blokhin said at a press conference that after the final match of the championship with Zaporozhye "Metallurg" Igor Surkis announced the players: "On vacation walk, drink, none of you will not follow."

- Agreed: on vacation can afford that in the course of the season has been excluded. You can relax, go to the disco. Footballers are human beings too. But those who have been summoned to the team, of course, had to postpone the pleasures of life, we knew that the match is waiting for us in Montenegro and that depends on it. It's true priorities were not working. What ultimately more important to "break away" for a few days or for a chance to play at the World Cup?

- You said that before the off-season did not turn away from the regime of a step. What if no secret of the forbidden can afford to leave Andriy Yarmolenko?

- I can sit up late with friends, not paying attention to time. And then, if you want to sleep all day.

- Last winter, you suddenly changed the number nine on the tenth, formerly owned by Artem Milevsky. Question did not arise? After all the players - the people superstitious.

- Superstition here just to do with it. I wanted to change in the football life of anything, and I decided to change my room. If Milevsky back into the first team - without hesitation returned to his "top ten" ...

- ... And would take "seven", which was passed in the team you inherited from Andriy Shevchenko? After all, he is, I believe, was your childhood idol.

- Probably, for all the young players of my generation Sheva was a role model. Recently, he, by the way, came to our base for the national team, and seeing my seventh room, with a characteristic sense of humor, "pritravil": do you have it selected the most valuable ... (laughs).

- Maxim Shatskikh, when after his move to "Dynamo" was compared with the departed in "Milan" Shevchenko said he preferred to be yourself and not someone else's copy. But you, the comparison with the recent captain of the club and the national team, probably flattered?

- In every age it is perceived in different ways. When eighteen read about himself that "in the" Dynamo "has a new Shevchenko", of course, felt a sense of pride somewhere inside. But growing up, came to the same conclusion that and Shatsky: it is better to be original than double, even if their idol. I want to be remembered by the public under his own name - that over time young players are compared to me.

TWO MINUTES OF SILENCE

- Did you manage to feel in the "Dynamo" and the team leader?

- In my understanding, the leader of the team should be so not only in the field but also outside it. To me it is early to take such a significant role, because, really, there is still work to do and something to strive for.

- As a father of three children, I suppose, that the emotions of the birth of his son Ivan, named in honor of your grandfathers, blocked all the experiences of recent times. Diapers, if I may, to change the already learned?

- Few get the hand. (Laughs). Without the help of his wife so far, though, by Do not fully, but Ina and our parents soon will bring my skills to perfection.

- You once said that the best way for you to sleep - read a book. Now, as a small child at home, this is the original sleeping pill still work?

- (Laughs). Well, now I do not need and the book - just two minutes of silence and pillows in sight.

- Between the end of the championship and the start of the collection of the national team you have time to feel like a father, and Oleg Gusev took that opportunity to celebrate the wedding. He has invited you to a celebration?

- No. As I understand it, his wedding was held in private.

- In recent times there is information about the interest to you by reputable European clubs. The Italian press says that "Milan" is a priority right to purchase the transfer Yarmolenko, and "Fiorentina" has turned into "Dynamo" with a specific proposal. Brother Alex Ferguson came a half years ago to Marbella to see you in the test matches. People from the "Real" watching you in the fight against the Ukrainian national team of Norway in Valencia. Close to the "Zenith" agent Konstantin Sarsaniya recently noticed that Yarmolenko - it is the player who is now necessary Petrograd. You somehow all this interest to yourself feel?

- Personally for me with suggestions so far no one has come out. And anyway, my goal to play and play good football, but if fate will be like - a chance to prove themselves in a strong European Championships there will fail. With the president, we discussed this topic when more really interesting option, we will sit down and discuss it so that it was profitable for the club and me.

- Igor Surkis said there is no such money, for which he would sell you a "Shakhtar". Can you imagine yourself in an orange and black t-shirt?

- I, frankly, do not even want to represent, for the Donetsk club - perhaps the most principled opponent of "Dynamo" in the domestic arena. And although there are banal formula "never say never", then I doubt just do not feel.

RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

- You said that in the "Dynamo" get genuine pleasure from life and football. About that, in any foreign club would be able to experience the same feelings, you tell me, of course, do not tell. But tell me, at least, what foreign languages ​​do you speak and what you want to study in the near future?

- (Laughs). I understand what you mean. Well, let's take it. Spoken Russian ...

- ... That a person born in St. Petersburg, it is logical ...

- Almost six months twice a week visiting English classes. But not because they want to, let's say, to go to England. This language is necessary for me for the overall development, because it is spoken almost everywhere.

- And the Italian? Spanish?

- (Laughs). I would still at least one to master ...