Alexander Sandlersky, ex-football player of PFC CSKA, told about his debut in professional football, training camps, Kislyak and the end of his career at the age of 18.
— Do you remember the first training session?
— Of course I remember. It was at the football school "Chertanovo. I was about four years old then. There was no team my age, so I played with guys who were a year older. One coach noticed me and invited me to train on a regular basis.
— How many years have you spent in Chertanovo?
— I played there for a very long time, more than ten years
— And how did you get to CSKA?
— I got an agent with whom we constantly discussed options for further development of my career. One day he told me that there was an option to go to CSKA for a viewing. I agreed without hesitation. I was watched for a month: I trained with the team, went to a tournament where I proved myself. After this tournament, I was accepted into the team.
— How do you like the training process in both teams? Was there anything you didn't like or that you would change?
— In general, both Chertanovo and CSKA train football players well. I remember more than CSKA, everything is at the highest level there. All coaches have a very professional approach to work. Their main task is to help young footballers develop, and they do everything to promote their progress.
Sometimes there were not enough game exercises. More and more people want to express themselves in the game, but there is also an understanding that exercises for team interaction, technique and physics are also very important.
— In the summer you were at the training camp in Vatutinki with the CSKA youth team. Tell me how your usual day went there.
— Yes, I went with the youth, but we lived on the same base with the foundation. It often happened that we worked out in the gym with them. Remember Diveev he came to us like that once. We greeted each other, trained together, very friendly atmosphere.
The day went like this: we woke up, went to breakfast. Then take a break for a couple of hours to digest the food. After the break, the first one and a half hour workout. Then lunch and a quiet hour, where you definitely need to sleep and recover before the evening workout. Actually, she's next on the schedule. After that, dinner, theory and lights out.
— How do training camps differ from regular training sessions?
— Training camps are most often held before the season, after the holidays, so the intensity of training is much higher so that the players get into shape faster. There were very hard workouts, for example, various endurance tests.
— How did you show yourself on these tests? Did you get into the lead?
— Yes, he was often one of the best. I have never had any problems with my physical abilities, my endurance was the best in all teams.
— Tell an interesting or funny story from the training camp.
— There are always a lot of interesting things going on at the training camp. I remember a funny situation from one of the first training camps with Chertanovo in Bulgaria. One guy for some reason pressed the alarm button in the hotel and called the fire alarm. We were all evacuated. The coach punished us when he found out who did it, everyone was running cross-country. I also remember we were released there, in Bulgaria, to the shopping center and appointed a time at which we all had to return to the meeting place. Three guys decided that they didn't really need a team and went to an 8-D cinema. We waited another hour for them to finish watching the movie and deign to join everyone.
— And what can you say about the guys who are now playing for the base? Do you communicate with them and why do you think they managed to break into professional football?
— I have been communicating with Matvey Kislyak for a very long time. We've known him since Chertanovo. He always stood out from the general mass primarily by his professionalism. Matvey clearly understands that football is his business, and he takes it and his career with due seriousness.
С Kirill Glebov we still talked. He is also a fan of his business, and most of all I was struck by his approach to nutrition. At the training camp, everyone could usually take something fried or sweet after training, treat themselves, and Kirill always took rice and boiled chicken or something like that. Only proper nutrition.
— How did you feel when you first got into the application, and then went out on the field altogether?
— I found out about getting into the application the day before, when they wrote to the chat so that the next day a number of youth players would come to ВЭБ Арену (CSKA's home stadium). At first I didn't understand what it was, I started writing to my teammates, asking what kind of unplanned gathering it was, and they answered me that tomorrow was the basis for the application.
When I went to the game, I doubted whether I would come out or not. Already in the locker room, Fedotov (the head coach) said that everyone would play. Федотов (главный тренер) сказал, что сыграют все.
I was most impressed by the atmosphere of the stadium. When you warm up, and fifteen or even twenty thousand fans are buzzing and making noise, goosebumps run over your skin. All this inspired me very much.
When I entered the field, I can't say that I was very worried. Everything seemed surreal to me. I felt like a character in a computer game.
After the match, everyone was a little disappointed with the defeat, but we, the debuting guys from the youth team, were supported. Fedotov fatherly encouraged Лукин he said he played well. We were sitting in the locker room Чалов, Зделар и Роша. Also praised.
— Why did you decide to retire from football when you were one step away from your first professional contract?
— It was the most difficult decision in my life, since I gave 14 years to football. At first I wanted to combine football and study, but right after it started, I realized that it was unrealistic purely physically. Plus, I started getting less playing time.
I talked to the coach, he tried to convince me, he said that I had been working for so long, there was one step left to my dream, I needed to make the last leap. But I didn't want to. You know, there is a feeling when you go to something for a very long time, at the end of the way you realize that you don't really need this goal. So for me, professional football has ceased to be a dream. I decided that I wanted something different from life and chose to study at a university. I was very afraid that I would regret my decision, but now I am focused on studying and I am glad that I will be able to make the right choice for myself.
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