Former Russian national team coach Alexander Borodyuk spoke about his attitude to modern Russian football.

— If you see interesting moments where you can take something new, then you highlight it for yourself. Although great people said: “The most important and difficult thing is to teach football players to play simple football.”

Nowadays, many football-related specialists have come to football and can fool people’s minds with their new technologies and ideas. But I watched the match “Orenburg” – “Fakel”: “Orenburg” had 68% of the ball, “Fakel” – 32%, all the statistics are on the side of “Orenburg”, however – 2:1 in favor of “Fakel”. In football, the most important thing is the performance skills of the players and their game thinking. There is one story related to analysts. Before the game with England in the Euro 2008 qualifiers, an analyst said that Zyryanov did not look very good based on computer indicators. Gus asked me: “How do you like Zyryanov?” I say: okay. Gus is of the same opinion. We put Zyryanov against England – and he was one of the best in the match! Analysts are needed in football, but for a coach the most important thing is what he sees with his own eyes.

One great coach said: “This football player can do everything: he runs fast, jumps high, works well with the ball. But there is one drawback – he doesn’t know how to play football.” That is, in football, game thinking is very important. “I try to pay attention to all these things,” Borodyuk is quoted as saying by “Championship.”

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