Where is the Slutsk coach now? Leonid Slutsky, CSKA coach: biography, personal life. Leonid Slutsky and the Russian team

Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky. Born on May 4, 1971 in Volgograd. Russian football coach. Honored Trainer of the Russian Federation (2013).

Grew up without a father. When he was six years old, his father, a master of sports in boxing, died. The boy grew up with his mother, who worked as a teacher in kindergarten, and then began to manage this preschool institution.

He has a half-brother Dmitry.

After school he entered the State Institute physical culture In Volgograd. Simultaneously with his studies, he was a player (goalkeeper) in the youth team. football team"Star" from Gorodishchi.

The young football player showed promise, but a tragic incident changed his plans. Having decided to help a neighbor get a pet cat from a poplar tree, Slutsky put an end to his playing career. The tree branches couldn't stand it young football player, and instead of training, he ended up in a hospital bed with fractures and a concussion. The treatment lasted a whole year. He was able to develop knee-joint, but the goalkeeper's career is over.

He told about this story: "I was getting ready for training. A neighbor came in. She had a pet cat, she accidentally let him out, he immediately climbed a poplar tree. She asked me to climb a tree after him. I had never climbed a tree in my life, but I couldn’t refuse anyone... And now , by the way, this is one of the disadvantages - it is very difficult to say “no”, and it is generally impossible for loved ones... So I climbed with bated breath. Then they told me that the poplar has very fragile branches in the fall. Although I was thin then, it’s not like what now... a wild boar. The branch broke off, grabbed the top one - it also broke off, and flew onto the asphalt - from the height of the third floor. He landed on his knee and then hit his face. The diagnosis was as follows: an open comminuted fracture of the left patella, a broken nose, a concussion ". The injury was then incompatible with football. I spent a year in the hospital. I was told that my leg would not bend at all. I began to develop the joint for a long time and painfully. And I even tried to return to football, but it didn’t work out - I would hardly have been able to play above KFK".

At the age of 22, he recruited to his team "Olympia" twelve year old boys dreaming of becoming famous football players. His coaching career began in 1993. Under the leadership of Slutsky, Olimpia Volgograd won the Russian Cup by 1999, gaining the opportunity to play in the second division.

Since 2001, he began to coach football players playing in the reserve team "Uralana" from Elista.

After the collapse of the Elista club, Leonid Viktorovich took a coaching position in the second team of the football club "Moscow". He didn't have to train the double team for long. Already in 2005, Leonid Viktorovich became the mentor of the main team. Such cooperation with the Moscow club lasted only two years, although the players could get a prize-winning place in the Russian Cup. At that time, FC Moscow remained in fourth place and received the opportunity to compete in the UEFA Cup. Despite all the team’s achievements, Leonid Viktorovich Slutsky was fired from his position, prematurely terminating the contract that was signed before 2010.

He was offered to become the head coach of Samara "Wings of the Soviets". The contract was signed for three years, but even here there were frictions and misunderstandings. Although the club played with good results, Leonid Viktorovich still had to leave two years later, writing a letter of resignation of his own free will.

Became a coach since 2009 CSKA. Under his leadership, the athletes reached the playoffs of the Champions League, and in 2011 they won the championship, taking the Russian Cup for the sixth time. This award became the first trophy for coach Slutsky.

On July 13, 2013, CSKA beat Zenit 3:0 in the Super Cup match. After this victory, Slutsky became the fifth coach in the history of the RPL who managed to win all national trophies (before this, Yuri Semin, Valery Gazzaev, Luciano Spalletti and Kurban Berdyev achieved a similar result).

In August 2015, Slutsky was entrusted with coaching the Russian national team players, while leaving the opportunity to coach CSKA Moscow.

In the first match under the leadership of Slutsky on September 5, 2015, the Russian team beat the Swedish team with a score of 1:0 in qualifying tournament Euro 2016. In the second qualifying match on September 8, the Russian team beat the Liechtenstein team with a crushing score of 7:0, repeating the performance record of 1995.

In October, the Russian team won two more victories: over the teams of Moldova with a score of 2:1 and Montenegro with a score of 2:0. Thanks to these results, the team took second place in the group and reached the final part of Euro 2016, and Slutsky continued to combine posts in CSKA and the national team until the end of the final stage of Euro.

In November, the Russian national team played two friendly matches with the national teams of Portugal, which ended in the victory of the Russians with a score of 1:0, and Croatia, in which the first defeat of the team under the leadership of Slutsky took place (the Croats won with a score of 1:3).

On March 26, 2016, the national team won a home victory with a score of 3:0 in a friendly match over the Lithuanian team, and on March 29, Russia lost away to the host of the upcoming European Championship, the French team, with a score of 2:4.

At Euro 2016, the team led by Leonid Slutsky drew with England (1:1), lost to Slovakia (1:2) and Wales (0:3) and failed to leave the group. After a disastrous performance at the championship.

Leonid Slutsky is also known as a humorist. He played for the Volgograd team “Third Sons”, took part in games Major League KVN, acting as not only a coach, but a dancer and musician.

In 2006, he took part in the humorous show “Good Jokes.”

Leonid Slutsky in KVN

On May 22, 2016, Leonid Slutsky led a team of experts in the game “What? Where? When?”, consisting of members of the Russian national football team: Akinfeev, the Berezutsky brothers, Dzyuba and Ivanov. The game was held on the eve of the 2016 European Football Championship.

Leonid Slutsky's height: 181 centimeters.

Personal life of Leonid Slutsky:

Married. My wife's name is Irina. The couple has a son, Dmitry (born 2008).

Team achievements of Leonid Slutsky:

FC Moscow:

Russian Cup finalist: 2006/07

CSKA:

Russian Champion: 2012/13, 2013/14, 2015/16
Russian Cup winner: 2010/11, 2012/13
Russian Cup finalist: 2015/2016
Winner of the Russian Super Cup: 2013, 2014
Silver medalist of the Russian Championship: 2010, 2014/15
Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship: 2011/12

Russian team:

Exit of the Russian national team to the final part of the European Football Championship 2016, Main coach Russian national team

Personal achievements of Leonid Slutsky:

Best Coach of the Year according to the RFU: 2012/13, 2013/14

“Suspicions that there would not be a fair fight on the field arose even before the starting whistle, when bookmakers announced an unprecedented influx of people wanting to bet on Terek’s victory. Bookmakers continued to accept bets, but reduced the odds on the home team's victory to a minimum.
The match turned out to be strange indeed. With two goals from Grozny legionnaire Panku, the Samara defenders seemed to make way for their opponents. And when, at the beginning of the second half, Krylia Sovetov forward Evgeniy Savin equalized the score with a double, his teammates were in no hurry to congratulate him.
The last minutes of the meeting turned out to be completely comedic. The guests stood up openly, not preventing their opponents from creating scoring chance after chance. But they couldn’t score. Either the attacker misses the ball a meter from the goal, or it hits the post. The audience counted three one-on-ones with Lobos alone. And when, in the end, Bendz, left alone on the penalty line after a cross from a corner, still brought victory to Terek, both teams seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
The absence of the Wings’ two main stars on the field: the Czechs Koller and Jarosik also added to the suspicion. Football experts in the press formulated a very plausible version that “Wings” gave “Terek” three points for the victory they gave them last season. At the same time, last year’s match, which ended with a score of 4:3, was also called suspicious. RFU President Vitaly Mutko said that he “didn’t like the match very much”:

“I’m very ashamed of the Samara team,” Mutko said, promising that the RFU ethics commission will watch this match again, but the relevant authorities should draw conclusions. True, which organs should be looked at and what should be looked at if no one has addressed them is not entirely clear.

Krylia coach Leonid Slutsky immediately after the game flew to Chisinau, where these days he is conducting a seminar for one hundred Moldovan football coaches on the topic “Improving group and team interactions in defense (the principle of zone defense).” That is, he talks about what his defenders portrayed in unison in the match with Terek.

– I read newspapers, blogs and comments after the match. I want to say with all responsibility that the team did not give up the match! – Leonid Slutsky said in Chisinau as if nothing had happened.

– Why did the players just stand up in the last ten minutes of the match?

– Belozerov was injured. This is the main reason. Secondly, the players are hooked. Nobody gave up the match. As for betting on Terek, what does the Wings of the Soviets Club have to do with this?

Even if no one wants (and most likely, they will) to investigate what happened, Slutsky’s reputation will be significantly tarnished, and the Samara stands will henceforth greet the coach with whistles.”

Former head coach of the Russian national team and CSKA Moscow Leonid Slutsky got his dream job: - English “Hull City” announced on June 9 the appointment of a Russian specialist as the team’s new coach. What Slutsky did during the forced holidays and how he ended up in Foggy Albion - in the material.

New project Abramovich

In December 2016, CSKA and Slutsky broke up after seven years life together and work. During this time, the army club became firmly associated with the name of the coach and vice versa. The specialist brought a lot of positivity to the red-blue game, but lately he has been increasingly criticized, and CSKA’s football has become increasingly bland. After an unsuccessful performance in the Champions League, it was decided to stop cooperation.

Slutsky did not sit idly by and began to make his “civilian” dreams come true (during his “army” service, the executive coach did not have the opportunity to do anything other than football): he visited Antarctica, gained fame in a short but bright commentary career (worked at the Champions League match between Barcelona and Juventus), began to learn English.

According to his admission, a few months ago he did not know a word of English, but once again proved his readiness for new challenges: he learned the language at such a level that he calmly gave interviews to the British media, causing genuine admiration among journalists for his determination.

In this regard, there was active talk that Slutsky could lead Chelsea in London - fortunately, the coach has excellent relations with the Russian owner of the “aristocrats”. But the Londoners got on the winning track (which ultimately led them to the coveted championship), and rumors about Slutsky joining the club faded away.

Photo: Vitaly Belousov / RIA Novosti

But Slutsky still hoped to continue his career in Foggy Albion: information appeared that even if he did not reach the club of the English Premier League (EPL), then in the championship (the second strongest football division country) he will definitely get the job and won’t ruin the picture.

Slutsky himself openly admitted that his main priority now is employment in the UK. In one interview, he stated that he was Abramovich's new football project. Without underestimating Slutsky’s coaching talent, it is worth noting that with such a patron, the Russian specialist was practically guaranteed a place in one of the British clubs.

And here is the long-awaited news: Slutsky has been appointed head coach of Hull City. Although the team left the Premier League at the end of last season, it is certainly not unknown - the “tigers” have spent more than one year in the top division and have everything to return there again soon. The details of the Russian specialist’s contract with the new club have not been specified, but he will certainly be given the task of rising to the Premier League next season, and the future of the coach in England, in turn, depends on this.

Slutsky himself understands the importance of the task of reaching the Premier League: “I really hope that we will return to the Premier League. I know that Hull City are a famous club with loyal fans. I can’t wait to get to work - it will happen next week.”

Hull City managers explained the invitation of Slutsky by saying that they like his way of thinking and ambitions. “After careful selection, seeing Leonid's attention to detail, his ideas about the style of play and his ambition, we selected him from all the candidates. The club already has pre-season plans in place with some exciting friendlies planned and these will be announced next week. Planning preparations for the season together with Leonid is in full swing. Slutsky has enjoyed success at both club and international level and I am delighted with his commitment to returning the club to the Premier League,” explained Hull deputy chairman Ehab Allam.

Time of the first

Slutsky is the first Russian coach in Foggy Albion, but far from the first abroad. The window to Europe was cut long before him.

At one time, the current coach of the Russian national team worked in Europe. Six years of it football career took place in Austria - the goalkeeper defended the colors of Tyrol. He hung up his boots in Moscow, but soon decided to become a coach. It is logical that he went to his almost native Austria to gain experience and take the first steps in a new field: Cherchesov managed to work with Kufstein and Wacker-Tirol.

Photo: Alexey Vitvitsky / RIA Novosti

After a long Russian stage coaching career Cherchesov again set out to conquer Europe: this time the colorful specialist led the Warsaw Legia. The Russian mentor was remembered not only for his eccentric communication with journalists, but also for his “golden double” - the first and last season in Poland he won the national championship and the Cup with the team.

A true legend of the Spanish Celta, he chose to start coaching in his homeland. After several years at the head of Spartak Moscow, the young specialist left his position and went to Spain - he was appointed to Mallorca, which was languishing in the second division.

The team led by the Russian was in a fever: the disastrous start to the championship was replaced by a series of victories, which allowed the fans to hope to participate in the play-offs for the right to enter the top division. But Mallorca went downhill again, and after another defeat the agreement with Karpin was terminated.

In addition to Cherchesov and Karpin, (AEK, Cyprus), (Yaro, Finland) and Dmitry Galyamin (Palamos, Spain) worked in Europe with varying degrees of success. Well, if you go beyond the Old World, then the main star of foreign championships will definitely become: an experienced mentor declared himself in South Korea, Japan, China, Turkey and even coached the main team of Cameroon.

Leonid Slutsky is a coach and, for a very short period, a football player who represented first the USSR and then Russia. He is still quite young for a coach - he was only 45 years old. When Slutsky was a football player, he played as a goalkeeper. Slutsky is a coach who is one of the most famous in Russia.

Brief career as a football player

Slutsky is a coach known to every person in Russia, but how many people remember him as a player? Most likely, practically no one, and there are reasons for this. The fact is that Leonid’s career did not work out at all due to a domestic injury. He was born on May 4, 1971 in the city of Volgograd in the Soviet Union and began playing sports while still in school. As a result, he ended up in the sports academy of the newly formed Zvezda club from Gorodishche. There he worked until 1989, when he was offered professional contract- after all, Slutsky was already eighteen years old. He quickly began to get into shape, got into the starting lineup and even played 13 matches in professional level, when a career-fatal incident occurred. Leonid's neighbor asked him to remove a scared cat from a tree, and the boy could not refuse. However, it all ended disastrously - a branch broke off near Slutsky, he tried to grab another, which also broke off. As a result, he landed on his knee, falling from the height of the third floor. At that time, medicine could not do much about it, and Leonid’s career came to an end. Doctors said that he would not be able to bend his leg at all, but persistence young man allowed him to slowly and painfully develop the leg so that it could be used further. Naturally, he could no longer be a player, but he set himself a goal - to become a coach. It is in this role that Slutsky is known to everyone - he turned out to be a very good coach.

Beginning a coaching career

How was Coach Slutsky born? The biography of a football player fits in one paragraph, but the biography of a coach is much more impressive. When Leonid was 29 years old, he began to practice coaching activities. His first place of work was the modest Olimpia from his native Volgograd, where he got a job as a youth coach, but it quickly became clear that Slutsky was capable of more. Therefore, he worked there for the entire year 2000, and then began to obtain a professional license. As a result, by January 2002 he was eligible to coach professional clubs- this is how his road to the top began.

"Uralan"

The first club that Slutsky coached was Uralan, but even there he did not immediately begin full-fledged activities. First, he was appointed coach of the club's youth team, and he worked in this position for almost two years - in October 2003, the current coach of the club was fired, and Slutsky was given a chance. He took over the team and coached it until the summer of 2004 - during this time, Uralan, unfortunately, did not improve much. In 25 matches under the leadership of Slutsky, the club played 24 matches, of which only six were won. 23 points in 24 games was far from the most impressive figure, so Leonid moved to another club, namely Moscow.

Transfer to Moscow

Naturally, Slutsky did not immediately receive the position of head coach: during his first season at the club, he coached the Moscow reserve team, but in the summer of 2005 he was promoted to the position of head coach. He has been at the helm of this club longer - a little more than two years. During this time, he managed to achieve impressive results: out of 95 matches, he managed to win 44, which was the beginning of his ascent to the top. This result was the best not only for Slutsky, but also for Moscow, which qualified for the Eurocups for the first time in history. However, long before the end of the season, the club's management decided to terminate the contract with the coach for unknown reasons. Therefore, in the winter of 2007, Slutsky was forced to look for a new place of work.

The new club with which Leonid Slutsky signed a contract in December 2007 was Krylya Sovetov - this is the first team that the coach led immediately, without starting with a double. Slutsky's results here were not as impressive as in Moscow, but still quite impressive - in 22 of 59 matches they won, and the club managed to qualify for the Europa League. After two years at the club, Slutsky wrote a letter of resignation in October 2009. It was then that information began to appear in the press that Leonid Slutsky was the coach of CSKA. Within a couple of weeks it became clear that this was true.

Top career

So, in October 2009, Leonid Slutsky once again changed his club registration. The CSKA coach, as soon as he was appointed to his position, immediately set the highest goals for himself and his players. In his first season, he took second place in the Russian Championship, in the second he won the Russian Cup, in the third he took third place in the championship, and only in his fourth year at the helm of the club was he able to win the Russian Championship. In the same year, the club won the Cup, and in 2014 and 2016 it repeated its achievements, winning two more national championships. However, the 2016/17 season did not start very well for the coach, and in December 2016 he voluntarily left his post. But it is worth paying attention to the fact that for some period of time he coached not only CSKA. Who else was Slutsky? Coach of the Russian national team!

Coaching activities in the national team

In the summer of 2015, the Russian Football Union invited the current CSKA coach to the position of head coach of the national team. Slutsky is the coach of the Russian national team! This was sensational news. He managed to achieve a lot with CSKA, so there were high hopes for the team’s performances. The goal was a trip to the European Championship 2016, and Slutsky was able to take the team there. The national team coach structured the game well. However, at the tournament itself everything went downhill. And Leonid Slutsky could not control this. The Russian coach made every effort to somehow force his players to show at least some class, but all attempts ended in failure. The team drew the first match with the British, which was a very good result, but this was followed by a defeat from the Slovak team with a score of 1:2. The match with Wales was decisive, and the Russians could have clinched their way out of the group if they had won. But the result was the opposite - they lost, devastatingly, with a score of 0:3. As a result, the team scored only one point in three matches and was eliminated from the tournament, and Slutsky immediately resigned. As a result, he played only 13 matches with the national team: 4 qualifying matches for the European Championship, 6 friendlies in preparation for the tournament, as well as three directly at the 2016 European Championship. On this moment Leonid Slutsky does not have a contract with any of the clubs.

Personal life

As for his personal life, Slutsky has a half-brother Dmitry. He also has a wife, Irina, with whom they had a son in 2008.

In his youth, Leonid was a goalkeeper who showed great promise, but his career was cut short due to an accident, but now the country has an equally worthy coach.

Childhood and youth of Leonid Slutsky. Injury

As a child, Leonid visited football section"Spartak", participated in local amateur performances. After school, from which he graduated with a gold medal, Slutsky entered the Institute of Physical Culture in his native city. The young man perfectly combined his studies with playing football, playing for the Zvezda (Gorodishche) youth team as a goalkeeper, and graduated from the university with honors.

The young and promising player showed great promise. But his kindness and responsiveness played a cruel joke on him: one autumn evening, while helping to get his neighbor’s pet cat from a poplar tree, Leonid could not stay on the branch and fell to the ground from a decent height. Numerous fractures and a concussion put an end to the career of a promising football player. He spent a year in the hospital, trying in vain to rehabilitate himself.

Coaching career of Leonid Slutsky

From 2001 to 2003, Leonid Slutsky coached players from the Uralan reserve team, and under his leadership, the “replacement” team took silver at the reserve championship in 2002. After FC's relegation from the Top Division, Slutsky took the place of head coach, but soon due to lack of funding the club was deprived of its license.

After the collapse of Uralan, the coach received an offer from FC Moscow and coached the doubles until 2005, when he was appointed coach of the main team, and the first match with the new coach ended in a victory for the “garnet-blacks” at Spartak with a score of 3: 1. In 2007, under the leadership of Slutsky, Moscow took 4th place in the Russian Cup and received the opportunity to participate in the UEFA Cup. However, despite the tangible results of Slutsky’s activities, the club terminated the contract with him without waiting for its expiration.

“Love a football player! Leonid Slutsky"

However, the proven coach did not remain without work, in November of the same 2007, he signed a three-year contract with the Samara “Wings of the Soviets”. The first season under his mentorship brought the team 6th place in the Russian Championship. For two years, the Samara team confidently moved forward, right up to the match with Terek, which ended in the defeat of the Wings with a score of 3:2. There were rumors that the match was fixed; There was discord in the team, the results of the game decreased noticeably, and in October 2009 Leonid Viktorovich submitted his resignation to the president of the FC.

Leonid Slutsky in CSKA

In the one-eighth final of the Champions League, Slutsky's team beat a serious opponent, the Spanish Sevilla, with a score of 2:1, and then reached the quarterfinals, where they met Inter Milan twice and lost twice with a score of 0:1. Despite the defeat, this game is a historical moment for the Moscow club and domestic football sport in general.

In 2011 football club once again received an honorary trophy - the Russian Cup, Slutsky’s first award. However, in the spring of the ‘11/12 season, the team’s results were not so rosy: 3 wins in 11 matches. CSKA took third place in the national championship, and Slutsky submitted his resignation, but the team management decided to keep him as coach until the end of his contract in 2012.

In November 2012, the contract with Slutsky was extended for another two years according to the original “3+2” scheme. In the new season, the team was eliminated from the Europa League, but was able to concentrate on the domestic game. CSKA beat Anzhi Makhachkala in the final match, and at the end of the season Leonid Viktorovich was recognized the best coach according to the RFU.

In the summer of 2013, in the fight for the Russian Super Cup, CSKA beat Zenit St. Petersburg with a crushing score of 3:0. After this, Slutsky became one of the five RPL coaches who collected all domestic football trophies, standing on a par with Yuri Semin, Valery Gazaev, Luciano Spalletti and Kurban Berdyev.

CSKA demonstrates inconsistency in the game - there are ups and downs. For example, in the summer of 2015, CSKA demonstrated an unbeaten streak of 14 matches and was on the first line of the Russian Championship table, showed success in the first stages of the Russian Cup, but subsequently the club lost its position and also failed in the Champions League.

At the 2016 Russian Championship, CSKA won for the sixth time in the club's history. Alan Dzagoev scored the winning goal against Rubin. Three weeks earlier, CSKA suffered defeat in the Russian Cup final, losing to Zenit with a score of 4:1.

Personal life of Leonid Slutsky

First match (vs. strong opponent- England team) ended in a draw with a score of 1:1. The winning goal during extra time was scored by Vasily Berezutsky. However, the next game against the Slovak national team ended in a defeat for Russia (1:2), despite a goal scored by Denis Glushakov. Slutsky commented on the situation, noting that the team lost due to an urgent change in strategy due to a missed goal.

The match between the Russian national team and Wales ended in an absolute defeat for Slutsky’s team - 0:3. As a result, Russia took fourth place in the group and failed to qualify for the playoffs. Returning to Russia, Slutsky announced that he would leave his position as coach of the national team and focus on training with CSKA. The position of coach of the Russian national team went to