Rafael Khabibullin gave an interview to the club site

Each year, at the end of the season, we do a detailed interview with Rafael Khabibullin - about the past, present and future teams, club, Surgut Volleyball ... How Rafael Talgatovich is inaccessible to the media, just as interesting - and as a source of information, and just as an interlocutor, with imaginative thinking and developed speech.

This conversation was no exception., spanning two days. Respectively, we will make two large parts of it, from which you will learn about the “skeleton" of the team for next season, about that, what eggs decide, why is it better not to ride on the side of the road, about intuition and playing cards, about volleyball arithmetic and higher mathematics, good nutrition and running at four in the morning, building a new arena and about every dog, that Khabibullin knew.

Uh-ff! But we just started to decipher the conversation. In general - stock up on popcorn, soon you will find a fascinating reading from the world of volleyball and not only. There are few such interlocutors now.. For starters - a small piece of interview about the last volleyball events of the past season:

“We were serious about playing games with Moscow, really wanted to go further. On the eve of the game in Surgut, we were forced to play without spectators. I voiced it as a club decision, but it was not our decision, local authorities insured. maybe, did the right thing, but it’s not easier for us. The most interesting, that the next day in Khanty-Mansiysk there was hockey - with spectators. Kadysheva performed in Surgut ... Well, okay. We tried to play in the bleachers. Emotion, of course, not catching.

Then it became clear, that in Moscow we are also waiting for a game without spectators. Another conditionally “friendly” game, theater with an empty hall, and the situation worsened every day and there was already a feeling, what is not up to volleyball. That it's some kind of feast during the plague. To some extent, it worked, perhaps, intuition".

Continuation, as they say, should ...