Dmitry Shnyakin played football. Dmitry Shnyakin: Mamaev and Kokorin are a clear example of how you can destroy your image. What is the most unusual sport that has been commented on?

Heroes are leaving! Serega Kornilenko has completed his career. Star of Samara. One of the best in the league at working with his back to goal. And he hit his head brilliantly. Textured, efficient Belarusian plowman ✊🏻🇧🇾 I love two stories about him. Sergei adored the old Mizuno model. So much so that I refused new products and looked for out-of-print boots online. I searched e-bay for them. To score something like this. Old school:) . An even better story happened to him in England, when he briefly played for Blackpool. It was told by team coach Ian Holloway: “One day after training, Sergei approached one of our coaches. “Police car,” said Kornilenko. “My God, what has he done?!” – thought the coach. Kornilenko is about ninety feet tall and has the build of a bus. So we thought he had beaten someone up and now he was going to get into trouble. For several tense minutes he kept repeating: “Police car!” - until we realized that he was trying to say: “Please, car” (please, car). He just asked us to call a taxi to get to the hotel 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️. Legend.

The most titled footballer in the world won another America's Cup. And the title of best player of the tournament. A complex, unpredictable, original national team tournament. At 36... I admire Dani Alves. Technical players do not always reach this career age (they hit their legs). Mobile flank players too (sharpness goes away). And it’s difficult for stars to push themselves for the sake of the next trophy when the maid is polishing a whole cabinet with previous awards. Dani Alves is just a virtuoso on the sidelines with a mountain of cups, but he is still of interest to top clubs, he is still the leader of one of the strongest teams in the world. . Inventive, playful, bright, efficient on the field. He also dresses like hell, writes videos, has fun on social media, and flies to training by helicopter. Not ashamed of the fact that he earned honestly. . Handsome! .

Yesterday I gave a presentation new form Zenit from @nike and the first club fanshop on the territory of @gazpromarena. Naturally, all this almost turned into Dzyuba’s stand-up show. Or a mini-trolling tournament between @sardar_azmoun and @artem.dzyuba 😎 But I want to say the following. A great idea is to create a club store (there will be another, larger one), which fans can enter from the stands and right during the game. And Nike's uniform is awesome. And blue, and white, and the new Spartak one. All that remains is for both teams to show good football.

There's one thing I can't understand. Why do the antagonists of the Chernobyl series suddenly treat people as idiots? For the city fools. Naive ones, with oppositional saliva smelling at their mouths. . Criticize the movie as much as you want - just don’t worry about the youth. And for the rest - those who have been “brainwashed” by HBO - don’t worry either. People are not as stupid as you might think, they have the tools - they will open the laptop, unlock the smartphone. Here you have real footage of the terrible Chernobyl works. Here are some chilling photos from the same 1986. Here is an hour-long interview with the demonized Dyatlov. Transcripts of Legasov's dying audio recordings. Reviews, blogs, documentaries. Here is an old interview with the liquidators, a fresh interview with the liquidators. An interview with three liquidators who watched the series: one complains about the machinations of ideological enemies, the second suggests showing this film to the authorities, and the third recalled: “We laughed even then: they say that the most radioactive element is a lie.” . And people are stirring it all up. Lots of search queries, millions of views. Interest aroused. I am sure there is not a single viewer of the series who would not go to Google/YouTube after the fifth episode. Or even during the first one. Those who are older will draw conclusions and decide on their truth. Those who are younger will learn that Chernobyl is not a den of zombies. Do not worry. People know how to think. . Taking advantage of someone else's artistic work is always an exciting thing, I agree. It’s fascinating to look for mythical smoke in newsreels, to count “comrades”, plastic windows, fake cigarettes, liters of fictitious vodka. An exciting activity: to tear off and discover new facts for yourself, delve into the history of the country, immerse yourself in other people's memories, experience other people's emotions. And then summarize this and competently record it in a blog/post/conversation: “But the series is SHIT!” . You missed one moment, fellow critics. So no one would have climbed there if not for the series. We wouldn't even think about it. The Chernobyl tragedy would be kept in a dusty place of collective memory. The living liquidators would not have emerged from obscurity; the graves of the fallen heroes would have been overgrown with weeds. But the series created a powerful momentum. Creative. This is his main strength. .

Ready for today's broadcasts! Like the jacket pins ⚽️🥋🤟🏻😉 The first one (17:55) is on @matchpremier. Before the start, we communicate with Lovchev, Gamula and @genichkonstantin. The second (21:30) is on @matchtv_channel. We will discuss Fedor Emelianenko’s decision to continue his career with people from MMA. !

I thought and still think that you should go on vacation solely to avoid the slushy/freezing Russian winter. Although its periods can be wonderful. But from mid-April to September it’s luxurious here. Why, for example, leave this?! Sunday, near the dacha. PS. Have a memorable summer everyone 🤟🏻☀️

June 17, 1998. I'm the guy on the left in the photo. One to one :) Dad took me to football for the first time. Luzhniki, Spartak - Torpedo, last match Alenichev before leaving for Italy. And Tikhonov... Since then he always took number 11. That's how it all started. Football disease, that's all. . June 23, 2019. At 21, the circle is complete. Now I took my dad to see Tikhonov ✊🏻⚽️ Yes, LFL, but the final of the Champions League, which Andrei Valeryich dragged with “Hephaestus”. . PS. If possible, call your dads today and tell them they are cool.

Dmitry became a sports commentator relatively recently, although he conducted his first report at the age of eighteen. His career began at the World Football website, where he worked for about a year. Later, Shnyakin’s work biography was connected with the Eurosport channel, where he was first a correspondent, and then an editor and news presenter, and gained his first work experience sports commentator. During his time working on this channel, Dmitry commented on about twenty different sports, including Beach Soccer, and beach women's volleyball, and surfing, and many others.

In the photo - Dmitry Shnyakin with his wife

He came to Match TV last year and immediately became one of the most stylish and colorful commentators. He broadcasts live with guests in the studio and prepares reviews of the Champions League and UEFA Europa League. Dmitry Shnyakin's wife Ksenia, together with their daughter, watch with interest the programs in which their husband and father participate.

Shnyakin especially likes to commentate on matches involving Italian teams. football clubs, of which he has long been a fan.

Dmitry himself is very sports man and is not averse to playing football, and in his youth he was seriously involved in wrestling, and if not for numerous injuries, then perhaps he would have had a good career in this sport.

And now he and his friends have been playing for the same team for many years, and in this Dmitry Shnyakin finds a real outlet, when he can not only chat with friends and recharge his batteries, but also throw out the emotions that have accumulated over the week. In addition, he is a regular visitor to the gym, runs and crossfit.

Dmitry Shnyakin is a football commentator of the “new wave” on Russian television, one of the few who not only understands football, but can also present his opinion to TV viewers in an unconventional way.

He is a frequent visitor to Saransk. In the 2014-15 season, it was he who commentated on the largest number of matches involving Mordovia. Dmitry worked at the microphone during our team’s meeting against Ural in the first round of the current championship. Then the whole country was just getting acquainted with the team created in Saransk by the most experienced Yuri Pavlovich Semin. It is symbolic that at Mordovia’s last home match, when it essentially said goodbye to Mordovian fans until the next season, Dmitry Shnyakin was again in the commentary room. Denis Garin, a correspondent for the television company TeleSet Mordovia (Channel 10), managed to communicate with the famous commentator.

- You're probably used to asking questions yourself?

I wouldn't say that. Recently, on the contrary, I have more often had to answer questions from colleagues during numerous analytical programs.

- The season is coming to an end. Apparently, global changes await Mordovia this summer. So I would like to sum up this particular team that Yuri Semin assembled in Saransk.

This team will definitely be remembered. With the current roster and with this coach, we won’t see Mordovia again. The Saransk team will remain in the memory, first of all, for its persuasiveness. “Mordovia” initially knew what kind of football it needed to play. More precisely, Main coach explained to the players what exactly needs to be done to achieve their goals. And she, as they say, did not show off. She proceeded from what she had. From what resources and performers it has. Although at some moments “Mordovia” was unlucky. I remember that very first round and that unfortunate fracture that Ebessilio received. Well, we see how Samodin played great in the last home match of this season. If Samodin had been in the lineup from the beginning of the championship and competed with Lutsenko, then perhaps Mordovia’s attack would have looked brighter. At times the "burgundy" team failed. We all remember how “Mordovia” held on well in the away game with “Zenith” for almost half, and then suddenly fell apart. The same thing happens when visiting CSKA. But overall, they still survived. The most important indicator of how “Mordovia” played these, one might say, play-offs with direct competitors in the fight for survival and won almost all the matches! This is an indicator of class, this is an indicator of the players' experience. After all, all the guys in Saransk are experienced. There are practically no young people who have not been fired upon.

By the way, many football players have revealed themselves in a new way. I would single out Vasin. I believe that he is ready to return to the CSKA level. Well, Kochenkov, who received the audience award today as best player FC "Mordovia" this season. Most of my fellow commentators, and I myself, completely agree with this: Kochenkov is the best player of the season in Mordovia.

- This season you quite often commented on matches involving Mordovia. Is this an accident, or did your “Mordovian roots” still come into play?

Yes, it really is a whole story. When Mordovia played against Dynamo, I definitely had to go to Saransk. This is actually my small homeland. My grandmother lives in Saransk. Uncles, aunts, sister and brother. I admitted to our scheduling boss that I have such roots. But it turned out that he himself has Mordovian roots! Therefore, there were no problems with this, and I went to Saransk almost every second week. Although I didn’t come here as often as I would like. Well, that’s okay, I’ll catch up next season. Maybe I’ll come to the match with Spartak next season, we’ll see. It’s unlikely with Zenit, everything is “booked” there. But when Mordovia plays with other top clubs, it would be great to work.

Universal reporter

The future TV commentator was born on April 29, 1987. Dmitry Shnyakin has Ukrainian and Mordovian roots, but he grew up in Moscow. The schoolboy grew up in a football atmosphere, some of his friends became football players. Dmitry himself was seriously involved in judo in his youth and, perhaps, would have grown to become a professional fighter. However, the injury put an end to his sports career.

Then Shnyakin entered the University of Physical Education at the department sports journalism. He received information about RGUFKSiT quite by accident, in a directory of Moscow universities.

He began working in his specialty - in parallel with his studies - in 2005. Worked as a columnist for the World Football website. Soon Shnyakin moved to the Eurosport TV channel. There, on his own initiative, he became a television commentator: he offered to help an experienced journalist and suddenly received his consent. Dmitry was only eighteen years old. However, the experience was successful! For some time the young man was “in the wings” and gradually became part of the staff of regular commentators.

At first, it was far from reaching the professional heights. Shnyakin still remembers how a language teacher on the radio taught him to say “hello” instead of “hello.”

Over time, he spoke more and more confidently and finally became a universal journalist. His work at Eurosport was associated with 24 types of competitions, including very exotic ones - for example, bullriding or tameshiwari (artistic beating of objects). As Dmitry says about himself, “he commented on everything that moves.”

"NTV-plus" and "Match TV"

But Eurosport was not the ultimate dream. Having completed his studies, the young man decided to get on NTV-plus. In 2010, the channel announced a competition football commentators. Shnyakin was shortlisted from the seven strongest candidates. The test for these journalists was a live broadcast...

During the tests, Dmitry lost four kilograms due to stress, but got into the state, despite all the difficulties. The chairman of the selection committee, the famous commentator Vasily Utkin, hired Shnyakin reluctantly and treated the young journalist with undisguised skepticism. Later, relations will improve, and Shnyakin will call Utkin his “best teacher.”

Dmitry comments on the competition various types sports The most highlight He considers the 2012 London Olympics to be his career highlight: then he covered judo competitions (the passion of his youth). Later, at the Olympics in Sochi, Dmitry commented on jumping.

And yet, Shnyakin traditionally acts as a commentator for football matches, including European Cup ones.

In 2016, together with the staff of sports journalists from his TV channel, Dmitry moved to Match B.

Shnyakin as a commentator

Colleagues call him the most passionate commentator. However, Dmitry strives for an impartial analysis of games. He roots for the players, not the clubs.

When covering the game, Shnyakin strives for technical literacy, but can afford “light trolling”, which enlivens the broadcasts.

He considers one of the most important qualities of a commentator to be “emotional adequacy,” that is, the ability to warm up in the public exactly those feelings that are appropriate in the situation. this moment.

Shnyakin also believes that a commentator must be a generalist: one must be able to cover competitions in the most different types sports

Despite highly qualified, he (like other journalists) sometimes finds himself in awkward situations. Dmitry knows how to talk about such things with a smile. The biggest embarrassment in the life of a journalist was a certain match of the Italian Championship (Serie A). The match was so boring that Shnyakin dozed off live. However, even half asleep, obeying the “commentator reflex,” Dmitry continued to comment! During these half a minute, the audience learned with amazement that Oleg Shatov and a whole galaxy of other RFPL players were playing in the match between Italian teams.

"Understudy"

Over time, Dmitry Shnyakin created his own show, which indicates professional growth. In 2016, his “Understudy” program gained great popularity. Dmitry collaborated with famous athletes and filmed an ordinary day in their lives along with intense training. The journalist himself trained together with the hero of the issue. Each time I had to learn new skills. Sometimes it wasn't safe. While riding in winter Siberia on snowmobiles together with Shnyakin, he lost control of the car and almost ran over Shlemenko.

There were also comical cases: while filming his story from, Shnyakin managed to play a prank on young Spartak football players. They were convinced that the journalist (dressed the same as Rebrov) was the new goalkeeper of Spartak.

Hobbies and personal life of Dmitry Shnyakin

Sport is not only work, but also Shnyakin’s main hobby. The TV journalist not only comments on football, but also plays in amateur teams. He runs regularly and can run a half marathon. From time to time, the journalist warms up in the middle of the working day (there is a tennis table in the television center).

However, the commentator is convinced that this is too little. Dmitry Shnyakin's height is 185 centimeters, but he weighs 95 kilograms.

Another passion of the journalist is travel.

One day, taking advantage of his vacation, he flew to Uganda to conquer the Moon Mountains. Having no mountaineering training, Dmitry stormed the five-thousander peak.

Another hobby of Dmitry Shnyakin is collecting T-shirts famous football players and teams.

Dmitry is considered one of the most stylish commentators. He wears interesting clothes and takes great care of his appearance (at the insistence of his wife).

Dmitry Shnyakin's wife's name is Ksenia, and she fully shares her husband's interest in football. Recently a daughter was born into their family.

Konstantin Genich, Vladimir Stognienko, Yuriy Dud and all, all, all about what they love more - playing football, rolling on snow powder, jumping with a parachute or still lying on the sofa.

Yuri Dud, editor-in-chief of Sports.ru

My career as a sports journalist began with the Scotland v Russia match in the Euro 1996 qualifying tournament. Having seen the wonderful reebok uniform of the Russian national team, I fell in love with the football shirt. Then I realized that I really wanted to connect my life with him. It didn’t work out to become a football player because as a child I was not in good health. But I managed to become a journalist, because journalism in the broad sense is the most accessible profession in Russia after prostitution. It’s a pity, really, that recently they have merged into one craft, but that’s not about that now. In 2015, sport for me is one of the few things that will help to a normal person endure the moral and financial turmoil that has reigned in Russia. By sports, of course, I mean horizontal bars, wrestling and running shoes, not elite sport.

Now I am in the departure area at Sochi airport. I spent a wonderful weekend in Krasnaya Polyana, closing the snowboard season. It was my first time on the slopes of Rosa Khutor, and I was simply captivated: kilometers of slopes, excellent service and very nice people around. They say that in the season when the snow falls in full, this is almost the best freeride in Europe. In general, Polyana is one of the few things for which the numerous environmental destruction associated with preparations for the Olympics can be forgiven.

As for playing sports, I’ve been going to the gym for about a year now, but my work there is at the very start: I can already push up kilogram dumbbells and an empty bar quite confidently. And I’ve been worried about nutrition for two years now: after even my frail body began to fill with fat in the abdominal area. I eat a lot, but only what is healthy. I hardly eat bread, instead of sweets I eat dried fruits, nuts and cottage cheese with honey. I have bad habits for a long time there were two: masturbation and coffee. I got rid of the first one thanks to the crisis (there is so much work that I don’t even have time). The second one just doesn’t work: I adore cappuccino and, unfortunately, drink it almost every day. Every day at about 7 am the children wake me up, I scatter them around the kindergartens and playrooms, have breakfast with yogurt, millet porridge and strong black tea. And I run errands - either to the office or to meetings. At about 20 o'clock I have to be at home to read imperishable stories about the rabbit Adonis or the Pirate who stole the sea. Well, go to bed soon - no later than one in the morning.

Konstantin Genich, commentator on the NTV-Plus channel, the man whose goal brought Perm Amkar into the Premier League

It would be strange if after graduation I football career I started doing bobsleigh or curling, after all, when you devote most of your life to one sport, you are involved in it to the maximum. And if it so happens that due to an injury you had to leave the race ahead of time, then there are not many other options for developing your life. Turning the page and starting a new chapter not related to football is very difficult. Someone manages to save a small portion of money for themselves, invests it in real estate, and receives dividends. Someone opens a restaurant, becomes a restaurateur, someone through an acquaintance integrates into some business. But, as a rule, football players see themselves after finishing their career in football: either to follow the path of coaching, or to become agents, or to the administrative headquarters: to be a director, the head of a team. Or, through old acquaintances, help with logistics in clubs, organize training camps, for example, purchase equipment. There are not many options, and many stop at coaching; those who are a little smarter, perhaps, go further and become sports football manager. Our football players do not go into journalism for some objective, and maybe subjective reasons. You could say that I’m not exactly a pioneer, but rather not mainstream. This is not popular here, unlike in the West. It just so happened that life connected me with football on the other side, on the other side of the screen. And I certainly shouldn't be upset about it. On the other side of the screen, I achieved much more than during my football career. Although, of course, there is some elusive feeling inside that I never said the last word in football.

Initially, you draw prospects for yourself, set goals that you want to achieve, but when you end your career due to injury at the age of 25, and when everything ends in one moment and in an instant, you are left with nothing, as in the fairy tale about the golden age. fish. And you think about what to do next. But I repeat - at the moment I don’t regret anything. If we talk about status, popularity and recognition, then as a football player I was less in demand than now as a commentator.

Most of our fans think stereotypically, they believe that if a player was once associated with a club, then his heart is white-blue or red-blue, in my case it should be red-white or red-black, in relation to “ Amkar and Spartak.

I spent, indeed, a considerable part of my life at Spartak: first 10 years at school, and then at youth team. But it didn’t work out, it didn’t work out. Such students, such Spartak pupils are a dime a dozen in Russia. From the profiles of many players it is clear that they spent a year or two undergoing a period of education at Spartak. Not everyone manages to gain a foothold there, so it’s impossible to flaunt the fact that I am a Spartak graduate, that I have red and white blood. The same Pavel Pogrebnyak - he is also a Spartak student, and where is he now? He doesn’t remember Spartak and feels confident in the West. The same can be said about many other players. Yes, I lived in Perm for 3-4 years, it was not the worst part of my life. There was and is something to remember, and some positive part of me remains there. I still follow Amkar, there are still players there with whom I brought Amkar into the Premier League. I have the deepest sympathy for them. But to say that I’m worried, that I’m tearing out my last hair so that Amkar can do well, is not true. Rather, at the moment I worry more about certain individuals, about people. In each team I have excellent comrades, friends, acquaintances, and I can worry about them, but only partly about their team. In this sense, I try to remain objective and not sit on any chair - red and white, white and green or white and blue.

If I were actively involved in sports now, not physical education, but sports, then I probably could pose on the covers of glossy magazines. But, unfortunately, this is not the case; this is all in the past. I am a very lazy person by nature, in everything related to motor activity. Maybe I put a lot of effort into playing professional sports while my career as an athlete was still afloat. But now, unfortunately, what I can afford and what I do can hardly be called sports. It is rather a hobby, entertainment, a fan. From time to time I play football in very good company, in Luzhniki, where they gather former football players, my Good friends. But this, of course, is not enough, unfortunately - in the busy schedule that the work of a sports journalist and commentator requires, it is not so easy to find time. Or maybe I'm making excuses for myself because I rarely exercise. That’s why I tell everyone that I don’t have much time. But first of all, mother laziness bothers me. Alas and ah, this is really so.

If it were up to me, if I were a little more purposeful in this sense, if I really actively took charge of myself, then I would devote much more time to fitness, football or exercise in the gym. We all have some kind of temptation, a desire to taste something forbidden. The biggest, main bad habit that I have become addicted to lately is smoking. Until the age of 30, I categorically did not accept those who smoke, I avoided communicating with girls who smoke. For me it was such a fad, it was disgusting and unacceptable. I avoided all this in every possible way. And then my life somehow incomprehensibly changed, and now I don’t know how to give reverse, because now it has really become a habit. In this fight I am losing to cigarettes. As for unhealthy eating, nothing human is alien to us here either. I can afford some fast food from time to time, fatty foods, salty, spicy. This, of course, affects the state of my body, but I think that over time, somehow I will still reach correct mode nutrition and will try to give up all this unnecessary husk, without which I can live. I will try to get on the right track and come to an agreement with myself.

Vladimir Stognienko, commentator at VGTRK

In 2001, I came to the NTV-Plus channel. My brother spoke with Georgy Cherdantsev (they knew each other from the channel’s Internet forum), Yura left his phone number, and I called. All. I was accepted to the NTV+Football channel as an intern. Then I was a 4th year student at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, I was worried that there might not be enough time for study and work, but, of course, I graduated from the academy. However, by that time I was already working on another sports channel- 7TV. For me, sport is the same as for all people, but football is the greatest passion in life, which has become a profession. It would be bad if my attitude towards football became the same as towards my everyday and dull work. Fortunately, this has not happened yet - I loved football more than anything else, and continue to love it. My love for football began when I was 8 years old. It seems that I accidentally got on the broadcast of some football match, watched with my grandfather and asked him questions about the rules. At 10, I was already watching my first major tournaments with all my might - these were the 1990 World Championships in Italy and the USSR Championships. And, of course, I have a favorite team. And she, of course, is Russian - it’s a family thing for us.

If we talk about what sports I do myself, it’s swimming twice a week, basketball once a week, football twice a week. I don’t have enough time for more, but I would like to. By the way, I also try to do gymnastics in the morning and evening - I have a bad back, a year ago it was so bad that I couldn’t sleep. The osteopathic doctor helped me, then gave me a set of exercises for my back, so I do it regularly. Regarding bad habits: I have never tried smoking, but I drink alcohol in groups, but rarely. The biggest problems are with food - I really love sweets and starchy foods. It is quite difficult to describe one specific day in my life, since there is no clear schedule. If I have work during the day, then I go to Shabolovka, and then, for example, to the pool. When the “window” opens up after lunch, I try to pick up my daughter from the kindergarten and then take her for a walk. A commentator must be prepared for a specific broadcast; for this, sitting in a television center all day is completely unnecessary. Therefore, it is still possible to draw up a business plan for the next week, but for two weeks it is already difficult.

Dmitry Shnyakin, commentator for NTV-Plus

Sport for me is a lifestyle. I saturate, if not everything, then a lot of what is in my life with sports. Today I was cleaning the house. Carefully, like a general, I scrubbed the floor with a sponge on my knees. Isn't this a sport? And what? Movement for a while. The same sex is not a sport? Healthy, proper, tasty nutrition for the sake of a figure - this is also a sport. Or once I rushed to conquer the Moon Mountains in Uganda, I wanted to climb a 5,000-meter peak, instead of the long-awaited vacation, butt up... An idiot, of course (I had no training), but such a test of myself is also a sport.

I stopped wrestling a long time ago - due to injuries (although I needed experience later, during the 2012 Olympics, where I also commentated on judo). But I continue to play football regularly, and even more often than I should, at the amateur level, at commercial tournaments. Amateur football league Moscow, where more than 70,000 people throughout the capital currently play, is my main passion. My friends and I have been playing for the same team for many years - and this is our outlet. No matter what happens during the week, you wait for the weekend, wait to meet friends and fight side by side, splash out emotions and recharge with new ones. Although here, as in professional sports: if you lose, the beginning of the week will be negative. So I have enough football in my life: not only do I comment on it, I also play constantly, three times a week. Plus I try to load myself with various things: Gym, crossfit, running. Testing your body by jogging is also a fun thing. Recently I ran a half marathon for the first time, 21 kilometers, it felt great! It’s even more pleasant when, as you circle around the park, you see more and more people running. The girls got carried away with running! Sports are back in trend. It's inspiring. So much so that I want to run a marathon. But for my 95 kg it’s a bit heavy, I need to prepare. By the way, when I said “again,” I meant sports in the Soviet Union. Back then, sport was not only widespread, but also of high quality. People knew what discipline was. You know, just recently I lost the rhythm of my day, fell asleep in the evening and woke up absolutely alert at 5 o’clock. And suddenly I thought: I wonder what a cross-country race at 5 am is? And he rushed off in anticipation of an absolutely lonely run... Yeah. Along the way I met 6-7 old people who, without departing from the habit of youth, were vigorously jogging. Is it worth comparing with the current generation?:) Even if it is the day of a match (and even an important one), the routine is not much different from ordinary everyday life. Unless you make sure to find time to prepare for the broadcast. You need to get a good night's sleep, because often the broadcasts are in the evening and end closer to one in the morning. I don’t like to have a big breakfast, so after having a small snack, I can go to training with a slight feeling of hunger. Either to the gym or for a run. If you managed to load your body in the first half of the day, then you spend the second half with a feeling of accomplishment. Excellent condition! Plus, the body is already wound up, it’s working at full capacity.

For me, sport is life, it’s simple. I talk about sports, watch sports, play sports, and I also get paid for it. What could possibly be cooler? All men dream of such a job. Because they all watch football, everyone discusses it.

For me, the sport itself has changed a lot lately. When I first became a commentator, I seemed to be wearing rose-colored glasses; it seemed to me that the main thing was “faster, higher, stronger.” But once I got deeper, I realized that sport is a dirty thing. By nature I am an idealist and I don’t notice some things for a very long time until they hit me painfully on the nose. It was the same with sports. For a while I even wanted to stop doing all this, because there are really disgusting things that happen in Russian sports. But then you go to the Olympics, you see real hero athletes there. You are imbued with this unimaginable spirit, you receive these emotions - and again everything is fine. And again, sport is the best thing in my life.

At the beginning of January, my wife and I went to the tennis section. None of us before tennis I didn’t play, so we started from scratch. It’s amazing when you’re an adult and they teach you simple things like a little kid: for example, how to perform a serve. For me, the classes were some kind of revelation.

Gradually, tennis became my favorite game sport. When you love football, it is in your life all the time, from childhood: playing with friends, watching everywhere you can. I also really love poker; for me it’s a sport. Although he was excluded from the register. But in our country a lot of things have been excluded. In the summer I constantly ride a bike, in the winter I snowboard, but so far it’s bad and not enough. When I go for a walk in the park, I always do pull-ups. Oh yes, I have a dog, and like it or not, you go for a walk three or four times a day, regardless of the weather. And in general, I should be grateful to him that he watches my figure, since the elevator in our house is often busy, and we walk up to the 7th floor together. We have a West Highland Terrier, they say that these dogs are very similar to their owners. Indeed, those who live with their grandmothers are quiet and calm. Ours is similar to us - frantic and emotional. It can be difficult with him, but it is also difficult with me.

I love all kinds of extreme sports and I know it’s corny, but I dream of jumping with a parachute or bungee jumping, from a building or from a bridge. The most extreme thing I've done so far is fly on a parachute behind a boat. The first time was very scary, but the second time it was already boring. It’s probably important that my body is unique, it doesn’t care what, how or how much I eat, it doesn’t change. I've always been skinny and still am. There are no rules in food either, except maybe not to eat what you don’t like. It is often written on your website that healthy food can also be tasty, I try to look for such combinations in my menu. I am a moderate drinker, that is, I like dry wines, and even then not often. I have never tried smoking in my life, not even a single cigarette, and I say no to hookah.