The well-known specialist and the president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Trainers Nikolai Pavlov assessed the national team and assessed the development of football in Ukraine.
About the robot Shevchenko I was very lucky that I was at the beginning of coaching career Shevchenko had the opportunity to work with him in Kiev "Dynamo". I know him not only as a professional football player, whom everyone knows, but also as a good person who was brought up in a normal working family who knows all the difficulties that he faces that who achieves some heights.
I always gave my players the example of a phrase from his interview. When Andrew achieved everything in Italy, and was in England, and there he did something wrong, he said: "Unfortunately, now most people are not happy with the success of someone or something, but rejoice at failure". This is said by a person who has experienced both joy and failure.
To the young guys, I always say: Do not think that a football career ends when you stop being players. In later life, you will come across a lot of problems that you will be very difficult to cope with. Therefore, right now, learn from the example of the same people as Andrei Shevchenko, who has achieved everything as a football player, and has now become a coach.
I would note the quality of Andrei: never one coach can do anything. One can only break up. Shevchenko gathered around him a good team of professionals, whom he knew, which he encountered in the course of his activity. Plus, for a coach it is always important not to listen to any advice from. The main thing is a coaching council, which he has. With them he shares both joys and sorrows. And the decision-making still remains for the head coach. And Andrei is not afraid of this. Decide in the first calendar official game of the national team to put the composition at 5, if my memory does not change, debutants, young guys, it's not every experienced coach can. Personally, I would, now at my age, never would have done so. Courage, which is in Andrei, will help him in his further career as a coach.
About the game with Malta I do not remember any coach of Ukrainian football, who before the game said that he will play in two different compositions with the exception of the goalkeeper. This match is not recognized officially, because in the friendly games put up to 6 substitutions, and Shevchenko made 10. He wanted to give the opportunity to play all the players. Invite to the training camp, participate in the training process and not play? For a football player, this is difficult. In this he was still a football player and this should help him in his coaching career. Draw conclusions on the test game? God forbid! Especially since they played with advantage. Standard position, somewhere not followed - in life everything can be. The great Lobanovsky also often lost control meetings, which, it would seem, did not matter. It is necessary to react to this in a different way.
About the pressure on Shevchenko I think that already now, Andrei Nikolaevich knows how to move away from these defeats, from the setbacks that will still be in his coaching career. Although the pressure did not stop even after the victory of the team, with what in the official game. But I think that he was not in such stressful situations. And the media, you know, what kind of service? To not crucify the crucian carp. The condition created by the media forces the person to think, to be constantly in suspense and not to relax. But only in that sense they play a good role, if you disassemble exactly football. When there is criticism, it must be perceived. When "criticism" - there is a word that I did not come up with - then of course, you have to separate one from the other. Andrew, I think, this will figure it out.
About the crisis in football Now you will not envy not only Andrei Nikolaevich, at the head of the Ukrainian team, but also all coaches who work with youth. If earlier, when I worked in the Soviet Union, when working with us to manage the team, it was not necessary to have any special knowledge, now every person is a person. He and lawyers have agents, a support group that gives advice, and which should not, like, give normal people. But this all comes from the love of man. Family and friends always want to give advice, somehow support. But there is such an utterance in pedagogy: If you want to ruin a person, let him do whatever he wants. Now players can not solve much.
The bet on the youth Those players who left for Europe and where they have something that does not work and who come to the national team without a game practice is the problem of all national teams. There are players who fall into serious top clubs, and there for some reason do not play. But Andrew finds a way out.
If the coach in the training process that occurs on the eve of the game, although there is too little time, trusts these players, then he sees that they look much better than the rest. And criticize after the game, when someone played badly? If this were said before the game, and there was a guarantee that they would play better, then it might be somehow discussed. Andrew does everything right, based on the situation that he sees inside the team on the eve of these games.