Anopko biography

Victor Onopko - the story of the star of football and KVN - photos, memories, interviews “Why do the national team need this old devil? Victor Onopko for the generation of fans X is a cult figure. The captain of Spartak and the Russian team - he is largely our football of the time, which was often and not without reason to laugh. The story of the legend is in the Longrid of the Championship.

How he came to Spartak Onopko - a native Ukrainian, a pupil of Shakhtar. In the Russian championship, he was immediately after the collapse of the USSR - in the struggle for the summer midfielder, Spartak was ahead of everyone. This is how he himself recalled his transition in Oleg Romantsev’s book “Truth about me and Spartak, written in co -authorship by the deputy chief editor of the Championship Denis whole:“ In January of the year to Donetsk, the Spartak breeder Valentin Pokrovsky came from Moscow.

An intelligent, kind and very sociable person. He said that he was acting on behalf of Oleg Romantsev. I replied that I would think. And he asked Oleg Ivanovich himself called. In parallel, I was called “Pakhtakor”, where then Alexander Tarkhanov worked as head coach. People came to Donetsk, called me. For a couple of days I seriously reflected on the proposal of Spartak - and at first I was inclined to stay in Donetsk.

I have a wife from there, near my native Lugansk. And the team at Shakhtar was wonderful.

Plus, for me, they did a lot there - they bought an apartment, a car, helped to get to the institute. But in the end, the final decision was made by ... my wife. She is the daughter of a famous football player Viktor Zvyagintsev. Natalia said: We have to go! I probably understood how I like Spartak. Therefore, when Oleg Ivanovich called me and confirmed that he wanted to see me in the team, I replied that he was ready for the transition.

My wife and I got on a train and went to Moscow. We sat on the Club Volvo and went to the base in Tarasovka. My wife and I were settled in one room of a two-room number-someone else lived in another. For the first month, Natalia and I slept in a walet on a narrow bed. And a month later we were given the second room. In fact, we have full housing. I received the apartment six months after I moved to Spartak-to Izmailovo, to the 7th Parkova.

A couple of years after that, my housing conditions were still improved - they gave me a much more spacious and comfortable apartment on Rublevskoye Shosse. It was originally made for itself by the vice president of Spartak Grigory Yesaulenko-layout, repair. I liked Izmailovo - from there it was not far from going to Tarasovka. But when my wife and I saw new housing, my wife and I opened their mouths with amazement.

We then invited other football players to visit - Karpin, Ledyakhov, Nikiforov, Pyatnitsky - so that they would see how we live. The guys envied me in a good way. But a little later they were also provided with improved apartments. We signed the first contracts about a year and a half after I moved to Spartak. The amounts increased decently. Players of the main composition began to receive from 8 to 10 thousand dollars.

I seemed to receive that they had already been paid in dollars, although before that they paid in rubles. "The newly made Spartakovist was enough for three months to prove to Provisor Byshovtsa - he was able to help the team at the European Championship in Sweden. On the euro in the first match against the world of the Germans, the Germans immediately after a break in our favor replaced Vladimir fiercely.

And, alas, he became a participant in the return goal of Bundestim. In a minute, the summer midfielder lost the ball in a harmless situation in the center of the field. The kid Thomas Hessler sent the ball to the distant nine on a murderous trajectory - the head coach of the CIS national team Anatoly Byshovets in a recent interview with the Championship recalled this moment: “Onopko screamed from the bench so that he made a long gear.

But Vitya did not hear me and went into the stroke. Lost the ball. A foul that was not. And the penalty area. In the very last minute. Onopko for me, it just so happened - a fatal football player. In the year, in the match with the Icelanders, again, a counterattack began with his loss, led to the carball of Kovtun. It was even more offensive there. And in the team there were no loud words.

Vitya himself was most worried. I even had to talk to him - to reassure. He said that mistakes happen to everyone, and entrusted the place in the starting lineup in the next match with the Dutch. Realizing that for him this miss is a great tragedy and guilt. And he was completely rehabilitated - he played great against Gullit. ” Yes, in his first match, the Onopko’s basis was opposed by one of the best football players in the world of the end of the end X and managed to neutralize Gullita The match ended with a zero draw.

Onopko himself will modestly appreciate his game against the captain of the Netherlands team: “I knew that I would personally play against Gullit, I was prepared purposefully for this. Igor Shalimov, who then played in Italy, also helped and well represented the Dutchman's player. Byshovets specifically put me under him, and I was ready for the “meeting”.It was played normally, for me it was a significant match, but I do not think that I did something special in that duel.

” The European Championship is the CIS team against the Netherlands team. Rud Gullit and Viktor Onopko photo: From the personal archive of Viktor Onopko after the euro, which will end for us with a devastating defeat from the Scots and the last place in the group, Onopko will decide to play for the Russian national team. Sergei Khusainov, who acted as the national team administrator at the euro, in an interview with the Championship recalled: “Knowing my good relations with the guys, Tukmanov, before flying away from Goteborg, asked:“ Talk.

Promise what you want, if only they signed up for Russia. ” Dobrovolsky, Kanchelskis, Onopko, Yuran ... I was covered at the end of the salon at the end of the salon. Lesik and Kuzya Mikhailichenko and Kuznetsov. They decided to offer the apartments. They ask: where exactly the apartments? I say, in the city center. So the Russian team intensified by several cool Ukrainians and one Moldavian.

” And here is Romantsev’s memory: “Onopko, many considered the“ clumsy ”. But, when he played in Spartak, they began to show me that I almost stole a player from Ukraine! After the collapse of the USSR, the Kyivians raked all the best football players of the country under their banners. However, this was in allied times. But Onopko, being a player of Shakhtar, was not useful to them.

And I took him to Spartak - because no one needed him. " The materials on the topic “Vitya did not hear, I went to the stroke ...” The drama of our national team in the euro is looking for who was to blame for how he became the best player of Russia in the survey of the Football weekly, conducted among the players of the Major League, in the year of Onopko will be recognized as the best football player of the country.

Moreover, with a large margin. Victor will score points from the possible. The assets of another Spartak Igor Ledyakhov, who took second place, will be only points. In M onopko, he will repeat his success, having already won by survey of journalists. And he will score even more points -! To repeat the achievement of the captain of Spartak - only Dmitry Loskov in years can be honored for two consecutive seasons in a row.

But Onopko also “Sport-Express” in M ​​will call the football player of the year in Russia and also on the survey of players of the Major League. And in and in M ​​he will take the second place, losing accordingly to Ledyakhov and the striker Dynamo Igor Simetenkov. Dynamo stadium. Onopko, Karpin and the Tsymbalar family. Due to what was he so good? Here is the version of Onopko: “When I went to Spartak, I was sure that I would play there.

The feeling that it was my team did not leave. So it happened. Of course, my performance played a role.