Kairat footballer Shvyrev: “Arshavin didn’t eat breakfast, so I was always afraid of sleeping too much”

Attack “Kairata” Vyacheslav Chvyrev told how embarrassed he was to be there Andrey Arshavin in the team, and also remembered how he lived with him in the same room.

Arshavin joined the Kairat roster in the summer of 2016, after transferring from Kuban Krasnodar. For the Kazakh club, the striker played 108 matches in all tournaments, scored 30 goals and provided 37 assists.

— How did Arshavin manifest himself in his communication with young people in general?

— He always suggested, growling. He hustled like a football player. And he did it to progress. He sometimes spoke on the pitch, but in the locker room he explained: “I swear not to humiliate, but because I want you to grow. You are capable of many things, and I say it in this form, but I try.

– Humanely.

– Yes. An example: if he was the first to wake up at training camp, he didn’t wash his face in the room while I was sleeping. I always went down to the locker room and washed my face there. I thought: because I’m sleeping, Arshavin is leaving the room, I have to get up earlier.

In addition, Andrei Sergeevich did not eat breakfast, so I was always afraid of sleeping too much. And in general, at the training camp I tried not to disturb him, I stayed a little in the shadows (laughs),” Shvyrev told .

Shvyrev graduated from Kairat. The 23-year-old Kazakh striker made 88 appearances for the team in all tournaments, scoring 11 goals and providing 13 assists.

On Tuesday, February 6, Kairat will play with UAE team Shabab Al-Ahli in the RPL Winter Cup Winline match. The match will be broadcast live on the MATCH PREMIER TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru, the broadcast begins at 19:00 Moscow time.