Just one thing - that the Brazilians were leading in hockey, said once famous Pele, although later he refused all these words. And experienced players, who previously defended the honor of our country on the football fields, on the eve of the mundialya, starting today in Moscow, gave the Russian team some advice. Their opinions, regardless of the length of the service, met in several paragraphs. First, the fact that it will be difficult for our team to win the World Championship, although miracles sometimes happen. As for the excitement before the matches, it is understandable and easy even necessary, but should not turn into a jim. More senior players noted the important role of culture in the leisure of players of the national team. They said that to tune in to a decent game and relax after fights is helped very much by sleep, proper nutrition, classical literature, theater, music and. steam room. "An athlete must necessarily sleep to be mobilized. The dream was both night and day. I did not sleep after dinner, went out for a walk in the air, or read classics who helped to tune in: Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin's poem, "the forward of the USSR team of 1954-1958 said to Antenna.. Nikita Simonyan. Goalkeeper of the Soviet team 1979 - 1986. Rinat Dasaev remembered that before the matches the domestic team was fed "and simply and nourishing: in the morning, cottage cheese, sausages and scrambled eggs, for dinner they gave soup, black caviar, the second and compote". According to another goalkeeper - Sergei Ovchinnikov, who played for the Russian national team from 1993 to 2005. , - "if our team will be well-charged for the match, then everything should turn out". "We need to pray," said midfielder Sergei Semak (was part of the national team in 1997 - 2010). And he added that at the most crucial matches the family support helps a lot. It's hard not to agree with striker Nikita Simonyan that now "there are almost no weak teams on the football map of the world". And the same Saudis, with whom the Russians will fight tonight, are very strong. However, you do not want to be preoccupied with defeating our. And, despite the fact that the defender of the Russian team in 1995 - 2005. Vadim Evseev admitted that he "does not think that we will live until the time when the Russian team will become the world champion in football", we must believe in the best. This is also the opinion of a younger and more experienced player - the striker of the national team from 2002 to 2016. Alexander Kerzhakov. "It's difficult to become a world champion, but you can do anything to please the fans, so they said:

yes, the guys did everything that was in their power, and we have no complaints against them," he stressed.. So, to win, we need a bath, Pushkin, and black caviar. This is the minimum. And for the maximum of the Russian team's players it is necessary "to make maximum efforts both in attack and in defense", "and the fans should be sick for how much power they have," Rinat Dasayev called. And he summed up: "We can talk about the prospects of our team after the second match - with the Egyptians".