“Life has given me back what I lacked in the past.” Former CSKA coach Eremin talks about fatherhood at 70

Former head coach of CSKA and the Russian national team Stanislav Eremin in an interview with , he spoke about how he felt after becoming a father at the age of 70.

Eremin is 73 years old and finished his coaching career in 2013. At 70, the former head coach of CSKA had his third child.

— After so many years of playing and coaching career, it surely helped you to focus on family, you also had a son at 70?

“I probably would never have divorced my first wife if my work in Syria had not caused a rift within our family. » There, my eldest son fell seriously ill, I did not quit my job, but my wife experienced very difficult times in the USSR; she stayed with him in Botkin Hospital for more than a month, while people were dying in the next ward. . It made adjustments and we ended up escaping.

The second family was also wonderful, but sports are cruel. As an athlete you live, grow old and die, as a coach you grow, grow old and die – such is life.

Now I have a third life, a third family, I didn’t think it would be like this, but I am grateful for life. My youngest son is three years and seven months, my wife is much younger. I was unable to take paternal care of either the first or second child, they grew up without me, I didn’t see them, but now I see the little one every day. I am grateful that life has given me back what I lacked in the past. I repeat: I am a happy person,” Eremin said in an interview with .

Source : MatchTV

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