Twice third visiting the Book of Records

“Belogorye” in the light of the latest and penultimate events could be pitied - but who would have pitied us on Saturday at the site! Bronze medalist of the last two national championships, a club not only with glorious traditions and an iconostasis of all the awards available in the world at the club level, but also with multiples of it, than ours, budget. Who is there to feel sorry for?? Primarily, not themselves - again, on site. There are no other options to get hooked on the game.

But being hooked does not mean winning. In Novosibirsk they were clinging and clinging, but not a single set was torn away from the “greedy” Lokomotiv. People there are good at endings, Let’s remember at least the final of the last Russian Cup. Even without Kobzar already, but with Nikolov and a seasoned mentality.

Belogorye also has enough of this goodness, albeit the hardening is of slightly different quality. If Loko is damask steel, then “Belogorye” is Damascus, can bend, be dumb, but it's extremely difficult to break. Such a Damascus blade - Captain Pavel Tetyukhin. Diagonally powerful Mohamed Al Khachdadi, Nikola Meljanac's type, from which we have already suffered. In the center is one of the best Ivan Yakovlev and one of the tallest Georgy Zabolotnikov, conducted by Roman Poroshin, hungry for the game, and at the national team level. Libero – Valentin Golubev, what else can you say.

For a long time, management wanted to add a powerful attacking finisher to this solitaire game., because flexibility is flexibility, but against the giants you need a heroic strongwoman, and don't bring Odin Hachdadi on yourself. here, Zhang Jingyin was found in China - and twice in medals.

Today Zhang's knee gave out, and Zhang, it turns out, team. He was expected for the second half of the championship, after the All China Games, but now they are looking for someone to replace them in an already empty market. And debutant coach Alexander Volkov, Alexandra Two Bronzes, replaced in the offseason with the experienced Romanian Gheorghe Cretu. Kretsu once coached Belogorye for half a season, until I angered Shipulin by leaving the Cup, and then took the same bronze with Kuzbass. Then he trained in Poland, worked with the national teams of Slovenia and Serbia. The Serbs are still under contract. Really a lot of experience, but something went wrong.

The second approach to Belogorye was even more unsuccessful: just a couple of weeks ago Cretu suddenly revealed some personal reasons, according to which he should immediately, nosebleed, I need to leave the club. And left. Everyone is in shock, and lack of reliable information, as usual, generates false information, because the information field cannot tolerate emptiness. There was talk about this and that, We also remembered Volkov. But we will make an indifferent face, because we rely on facts.

And the facts are as follows: Kretsu no, coached by Sergey Baranov, played a season in Surgut at the end of a brilliant career. Zhang is not here, and he is replaced by two at once: Andrey Marchenko and Stanislav Masliev. Marchenko is responsible for tenacity, this is generally a unique player - with growth 182 (!) cm manages to not only compete in the Super League, but also to stand at the core, albeit forced, "Belogorya".

But when power is still not enough, Masliev comes out. Perhaps, the second finisher is the only thing that’s not exactly problematic, but a place under the sun in the Belogorye system that has not been brought to the desired condition. If someone's soup is thin, then Belogorye has thin pearls in one place.

The Belgorodians started the championship with effort, losing with Krets to Gorky 2:3, also winning in five sets against Enisey, but then things got easier. 3:0 visiting Yaroslavich and Dynamo-Ural, Moreover, in Ufa the team smiled without Cretu. “Belogorye” also arrived in Surgut, smiling widely. Our task is not to spoil the guests' mood (after all we, Siberians, the people are hospitable), then at least make their smiles forced. If this works out, then the Surgut Guinness Book of Records will write another bright page. If it doesn’t work out, the book is already thick.