How to get to the screening in the locomotive. How can a simple boy get into the best football clubs in the country? where can non-professionals get screened?

It is extremely difficult to get into a professional football club, but this did not bother an 18-year-old schoolboy from Surgut, who asked to try out at FC Ural via the WhatsApp messenger. Lenta.ru is looking into how realistic this method is football career and recalls other unusual job attempts.

Audacity second happiness?

Before the match of the 10th round of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) between Ural and Zenit (0:2), as the press attache of the Yekaterinburg club Nikita Medvedevskikh said, a young man who wished to remain anonymous asked to organize a viewing for him in main team.

After the defeat, the mood in Ural was not the most positive, so no one paid attention to the strange request of a man on the street. But the young football player did not let up, and Ural gave up, inviting the stubborn guy to watch.

“Come to the base in the morning, we’ll see you in action,” Medvedevskikh wrote to the mysterious football player. And it took him by surprise. “I can’t come now, since I’m from Surgut, and I also need to pass exams,” the young man answered timidly, noting that he himself started playing mini-football, but for the last five years he has been mainly involved in big-time football. “I really want to play for Ural, I’m ready for anything,” summed up the 18-year-old native of Surgut.

“I wrote to him to take the exams, and then we’ll agree. The eccentric also sent a video - for this they immediately take him to Real,” Medvedevskikh said with humor.

The Ural selection service admitted: such messages and letters are not uncommon; applications arrive almost every day. Usually they are not taken seriously at the club - there are too many amateurs who have no idea about the real level of requirements professional sports.

Match FC "Ural" and FC "Zenit"

However, this time the functionaries are ready to accommodate. “If that guy shows persistence and comes to Yekaterinburg, then out of curiosity we’ll organize a tryout for him in the youth team,” Ural noted. Is it really possible to get into professional football?

Former sports director Dynamo Moscow Roman Oreshchuk confirmed that this happened in his practice. “Not everyone has agents. Some people manage their careers on their own. A person may think that he can play in a club of the level of Dynamo or the same Ural. Each team's website has an email address, so people dare. You never know, what if it works out?!” - Oreshchuk told Lenta.ru.

True, he added that the current story will most likely remain just a fleeting newspaper article. “It will be interesting to see how Ural will get out of the situation. Does a youth coach need to spend time watching an unknown player? Why does the team need this? For PR? If they really invite him to the screening, then this will create a precedent, and all the “stars of the court” will have to be accepted. And so people write to Barcelona,” Oreshchuk concluded.

But according to the Medvedevskys, “there is no problem inviting a guy to train and give him a chance to prove himself.”

“We’ll agree with the coach, he’ll set aside time to watch it. Given the publicity this story has received, we're willing to give him a chance. If he gets to us, of course. He is only 18, but he never gave his name,” noted the press attache of the Yekaterinburg club. And he emphasized that the club does not intend to invite everyone to the viewing. This episode is an exception to the rule. “I think both coaches and youth players will be happy to meet him,” Medvedevskikh added.

Sometimes it doesn't happen like that

And yet, Hollywood stories happen in football. For example, in 2014, a six-year-old Scottish boy, Aiden Hedridge, sent a letter to the office of his favorite club, Celtic, with a simple request - to give him the opportunity to work as the team's head coach. The response was written by Celtic chairman Peter Lovell: “As you know, we have entrusted the post of head coach to Ronnie Dale. I believe that he has the necessary enthusiasm and necessary knowledge, and therefore deserves to take up this post. I'm looking forward to this specialist getting to work. I hope you too".

The Norwegian coach, by the way, worked at the club for two seasons, leading the club to the championship both times. In May 2016, he was replaced by former Liverpool coach Brendan Rodgers.

Video: Rashed Al Hajjawi / YouTube

But 10-year-old Rashid Al-Hajjawi didn’t even have to write anywhere. The prodigy became famous thanks to video clips of goals and feints. One of these videos received over half a million views. The breeders of Turin Juventus drew attention to the boy and offered him a contract. financial conditions and the duration of which remained a mystery. Look, in a few years a new Del Piero will shine in the “Old Lady” lineup.

In the summer of 2015, the Finnish Football Association posted on its website a vacancy announcement for... the post of head coach national team. Nothing was required from the candidate: a UEFA coaching license, solid experience and knowledge of football. The contract was offered for a period of two to four years with the opportunity to begin work immediately.

As a result, the vacancy went to the Swede Hans Bakke. Don't know who it is? You are not alone. The peak of the specialist’s 35-year career was one season as an assistant in the English Manchester City. And so far things are not going great for the Finns. After three rounds qualifying tournament By the 2018 World Cup, the team with one point is in fifth place out of six possible in the Group I table.

You are about to watch in no matter what football club. Your task is to be seen. In other words, pass the screening successfully. What is needed for this?

Let's talk about everything in order. The word "view" comes from the word "look". The coaches involved in the screening are looking... What are they looking at? What the candidates for the team show.

And now the most main question, which you should ask yourself long before viewing: “what can I show that will make me noticed?” Guys! Remember: if you have nothing to show, then your chances of being accepted into the team are very, very slim, almost fantastic.

If there are no trump cards in your technical arsenal deck, then it’s better not to embarrass yourself, don’t go to the screening until there is at least one trump card in this deck - at least a trump six.

The trump performance of any technical element is performance at the “Wow!” level. The coaches who are watching you should be surprised. This is a performance that no more than half of the team you are trying to get into is capable of. It’s even better if your performance of this technical element is beyond the reach of the vast majority of the desired team.

That's the only way, guys. There is no other way. And now about how to tune in to the viewing and how to behave during it. Everything in the Universe strives for a state of rest. Throw a stone into a lake and see what happens.

At first, you will see waves in the form of concentric circles, which will begin to decrease before your eyes and disappear in less than ten seconds. This is how the Universe works.

If you attach importance to something, then know that the more importance you attach to something, the less likely it is to happen. This is one of the Universal laws.

You should go to the screening as if you were leaving your apartment and walking down the stairs to the mailbox to pick up the latest newspapers. Answer a simple question: what is the probability that you will take newspapers out of the drawer and return to the apartment with them? It's approaching 100%. Do you agree?

Do you attach importance to your act of removing newspapers from the mailbox? Do you give it or not? Of course no. In the same way, you have to drive, walk, fly to watch. Don't attach importance to this event.

If you don't pass, will you really die? Or will the Earth split in half? Or will all criminals immediately become righteous? Nothing like that will happen. Therefore, treat viewing as an everyday event. Like, for example, visiting a friend. This is the first.

Second. When you get to the screening, forget about your character, the flies in your head, etc. At the screening, you should be the personification of obedience. Without any pretensions, without preambles or conditions, without reservations, immediately and unquestioningly do everything that you are told to do. Remember: at the screening you are the ideal performer.

Third. Look for any opportunity during the screening to reveal your trump cards. That's the point of watching for you. You should, if not surprise, then at least attract attention.

Fourth. When preparing to watch, do not rely on your own opinion about yourself. You will never be completely objective with yourself. Get information about your game from partners, coaches, and people from the outside. They have no reason to be biased. They will tell you what is good and what is not so good.

A drawn portrait of you as a football player will give you the opportunity to emphasize in preparation for viewing on weak spots. It is necessary not only to bring your technical arsenal to the “satisfactory” level in all respects, but also to create several trump cards for yourself. Which ones?

For example, the perfect execution of the main deception movement in football, which guarantees you immunity on the field during martial arts. Or polish the diagonals so that you can hit the apple with the ball from fifty meters. Or throw the ball 25 meters from the sideline without lifting your heels off the turf. Or take your classic kick to 150 km/h.

This speed of the ball will be enough to attract attention. If you increase the speed of the ball to 170 km per hour, then this is even better. What other trump cards? Tackling, ability to block one-on-one dribbles, skillful heading, excellent burst, dribbling, etc.

No offense will be said about Aliyev, but he was gladly taken to any club just because he had a cannon punch. In other aspects technical training I didn't see him shine at anything. Think about my words.