former footballerUrals “, and now the team’s coach Yevgeny Averyanov in an interview with , he spoke about the 1990s in Yekaterinburg, which football helped to survive.
Averyanov played for the Urals in 1998-2008 and made over 300 appearances. Since 2009 he became the coach of the Urals youth team, since 2011 he is a member of the coaching staff of the main team.
– The 90s in the Urals are a difficult period. Have you ever feared for your life?
– Times are hard. Around the gang, dismantling, shooting, murder. I was already in the team, you could say that I was defending football. We played in a team like Uralmash, it’s a kind of business card. And when I said where I was from, people calmed down and there were no more questions. Some even greeted (smiles).
Football helped to avoid a difficult life, the same past drug addiction. Since childhood, I was lucky with the coach, so there are no hot stories for you – everything is quite calm and normal.
– But since people calmed down when they learned that you were from Uralmash, have there been any “meetings”?
– Rather, when we went to nightclubs and elsewhere. If a question arose, the phrase “we are Uralmash players” closed the topic.
– Were all the doors of the city open to footballers?
– Hard to say. Outside of the team perimeter, I didn’t have a hectic life with parties and stuff. Everything was reasonable, – said Averyanov “”.
Read the full interview with Evgeny Averyanov on matchtv.ru on Friday morning.
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Source : MatchTV
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