Pavel follows in the footsteps of his father, a four-time champion.
Pavel Meleshin – scoring forward
Abascal raced in the cup match with the youth and reservists “Wings of the Soviets”. Playing time was given to Rasskazov, Prutsev, Maslov and 18-year-old rookie Pavel Meleshin came out on offense. His father Alexey won the Russian championship four times with Spartak in the 90s and has long coached new players for the red and white. Now 18-year-old son Pavel has not only made his debut, but has scored the winning goal.
Meleshyn is a striker with 28 goals in 25 youth league games. His father played in midfield, he did not differ in such performance, but tried to match the level of Spartak Romantsev. He was remembered by the fans when he assisted Tikhonov in the gold match against Alania, not allowing Gazzaev to win two titles in a row. Aleksey also created a comeback against Croatia, scored the first goal and Alenichev’s goal ended the Croatians.
Meleshin’s son played in the cup match, because Nicholson received a disqualification. But Spartak signed Balde, the Senegalese striker can form a three in attack with Promes and Sobolev. Moses is in the infirmary, the questions for Ignatov pile up. Pavel Meleshin will find time to play as a substitute. He will at least play in cup matches, especially if Nicholson leaves in the next few days.
But Pavel needs to grow up not to get lost, like his 22-year-old brother Alexei Jr.. The striker has a talent, he will not repeat the mistakes of the graduates of the Spartak Academy: the first dynasty of important footballers will appear in the history of the club. The father has played 90 games with the “red-whites”, his son so far has the first. Eremenko, Smirnov and Abduraimov did not create dynasties in the club. Even the children of the legendary “Spartacists” of the 1990s did not grow up until the foundation.
There are few successful football dynasties in Russia
Proof of how history has mocked the generations: it was necessary to survive and not think about the company or the family profession. Yashin did not have a goalkeeper son to create a clan of athletes, as happened with Maldini. Lev Ivanovich’s grandson Vasily Frolov did not become a powerful professional goalkeeper, now he is trying to become a coach. Yevgeny Lovchev Jr. played for the Kazakhstan national team, but did not play for Lokomotiv. Yes, and Elder Lovchev is a Soviet-era football player and not a Russian major league star.
There are fathers and sons, but few impressive dynasties. We remember the Fedotovs and the Shustikovs. On a more modest level, you can find fathers and sons, but it’s like comparing two Mikhail Meskhi. The Georgian father is a European champion and his son did not stay at Spartak after the championship. But later there were enough brothers: the Berezutsky, the Miranchuk, the Kerzhakov, the Gabulov, the Pogrebnyaks, the Kharin, the Kombarov and many, many others. Now the children of the stars of the 90s are growing up, many have been sent to football clubs, but there are still no great success stories, and there never have been.
Viktor Panchenko played for KAMAZhis son Kirill has always struck on goal in the CSKA and dynamo. But the attacking midfielder and the forward have a match for the Russian national team. Dmitry and Denis Cheryshev have many more matches, but the second, who grew up in Spain, is looking for club in Italy It’s inside RPL he didn’t play at all. Hope in a new generation? Mikhail Tikhonov is only 24 years old, but he moved to Rodina, he did not even play at Khimki level. Juran’s son clearly falls short of his father in class. Igor Khokhlov did not continue his father’s work at a high level RPL.
Alexei Eremenko’s children became Finnish citizens. Alexey, Roman and Sergey are unsuitable for founding a Russian football dynasty RPL. Semak has a hundred children, Sergey’s brothers were football players, but the children are unlikely to be that cool on the football field. Neither Mostovoy, nor Karpin, nor Titov, nor Onopko raised children who would outperform them in class on the field and be on the Russian national team.
There are many children of legends in the field, but few exceptional ones.
Football has been around for many years, extremely popular, so some players turned out to be cooler than their handsome fathers: Maldini, Busquets, Lampard, Alonso, Veron and Forlan. By the way, Dondinho, Pele’s father, tried to become a famous player from a milkman, but he was a modest level star. And if we take famous players, we often use the slogan “nature rests on the children of geniuses” to their heirs.
Pele’s son did not become a handsome Selesao level player. Cruyff’s son was an average player. Maradona’s sons are not well known. Probably suing for the inheritance with the sisters. Ronaldo’s son is unlikely to be a handsome footballer. Zidane has created players with a margin: four boys in the family, but all weak. Di Stefano, Beckenbauer, Puskas, Ronaldo, Garrincha, Platini, van Basten, Best, Baresi, Zico, Gerd Müller, Eusebio, Ronaldinho, Socrates or Matthäus did not raise world-class football children.
And this reminds us once again of the burden of accidents in physiology. It is necessary for a unique child to be born – with a certain ratio of muscle fibers, such as Ronaldo’s, or with characteristics important to evaluate the world around him – Messi has an abnormally wide field of view to be able to hope for the emergence of a great athlete. . Then the social factors are activated: Ronaldo did not drink, having received fame and money, because his father died early due to the consequences of alcoholism.
The Messi family didn’t care about his needs, they transferred the boy to Barcelona, where the boy was injected with growth hormones, which they refused to pay in Argentina. Next, you need personal motivation to get the kids to work. Among the top 100 players in history it is difficult to find someone as rich from birth as Paolo Maldini. A child who has everything is unlikely to devote his life to hard work. The children of footballers of the 90s do not want to suffer for success, they have a lot of default.
Yes, and talent itself is an accidental gift, it is impossible to “pump” the brain, it is impossible to choose key joints or muscles. Children are not copies of their fathers. It is natural that there are many dynasties in football, but there is nothing special to brag about. The youngest Larsson, Kluivert, Simeone, Thuramy, Weah or the youngest of the Maldini are not the same as their fathers. Maybe someone is waiting for a big hit? For example, Kasper Schmeichel became world-class goalkeeper although not on the same level as Peter.
Even Federico Chiesa, if the injuries do not interfere, will overtake his father Enrico. But don’t expect the younger Ronaldo and Messi to be great. Rather, a boy whose ancestor ran silently after the ball, such as Griezmann’s Portuguese grandfather, will be more noticeable. In this sense, Meleshin’s son was luckier than Tikhonov’s son. The greatness of the father does not press, just as the class of the grandfather and the father does not press on Daler Kuzyaev, a rare third generation footballer in the country.
