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"It's not important for Dzyube to play only with his head — he's a technical football player"
A new Russian Football Championship draw starts next week. At the RPL level, he will make his debut for the Moscow Rodina club. Its main goalkeeper is Sergey Volkov, known for playing for Akron Togliatti. In an interview with Izvestia, the 31-year-old goalkeeper appreciated his team's readiness to make its debut in the elite, commented on the influence of his former striker Artem Dzyuba on Akron's game and appreciated the success of Cape Verdean goalkeeper Vozigny at the World Cup.
— The club's management deliberately decided to play in the Premier League with almost the same squad as in the first league. Is this risk worth it?
— I'm committed to the position that if you change the whole team, it won't get any better. If management does this, it means they see potential in it. I think we have excellent management who knows what they are doing.
— It's not necessary to change the whole team. You can just strengthen yourself pointwise.
— I think there will be a point reinforcement in any case. But, again, I think our team is ready for the RPL.
Goalkeeper Sergey Volkov
— Is there a big difference with Akron, which joined the RPL with you two years ago, but took on a lot of newcomers in the offseason, and signed Artem Dzyuba during the season?
— Actually, two different stories, two different teams. Both in style and form. If you remember, Akron entered the RPL through the joints. Therefore, there was less time to prepare for the new season, it was crumpled. With Rodina, we have more time to prepare.
— What is the difference in style? After all, Rodina, under Spanish head coach Juan Diaz, is focused on combination football, but Akron also tried to play something similar at the time.
— I tried — before Zaur Eduardovich Tedeev took over as head coach. With him, Akron football has become easier, all through long passes. Now in Rodina, Juan combines styles — with him we can play both bottom down and vertically. We train both. It was different at Akron.
— You said that before Tedeev's arrival, you tried to play the same way. Is his predecessor Evgeny Kaleshin similar to Diaz?
— If you compare Kaleshin and Diaz, then yes, they are similar. Kaleshin is a bit of a Spanish coach (smiles). He was trying to build such a game. Remember how we played and beat Lokomotiv, Dynamo and Spartak in the Russian Cup, and how we played in the first league in the first part of the RPL season — we always attacked through short and medium passes. He and Diaz are similar in this, but they have too different performers. I think that the team at Rodina is individually stronger now than at Akron when he joined the RPL.
Akron football player Artyom Dzyuba
— Many people believe that Akron began to simplify the game with the arrival of Artyom Dzyuba, before whom they began to play too much on horseback. Tedeev took over the team eight months before Artyom Sergeyevich joined. It turns out that there were prerequisites for moving away from short and medium passes even earlier?
— There were prerequisites. I'll say this: Artyom Sergeyevich is a fairly technical football player — it's not important for him to play only with his head. He's good down there, he'll give everyone who's been to Akron a head start (smiles). Therefore, what Akron has been playing lately is not Dzyuba's style. He also played a lot of low shots at Zenit. So the simplification of Akron's game, in my opinion, is not related to his arrival. Artyom Sergeyevich can play both ways. He's a top forward.
— What can Rodina expect in its debut season in the Russian Premier League?
— For European competitions, of course. Most likely, so (smiles).
— How is this possible? We weren't allowed to see them.
"Really?" I was already thinking… In fact, we will not say big words about the first place and something like that. In the first season, a second place will be enough for the team.
— So you want to play in the European Cup after all, if they let us in a year?
— Of course (laughs).
— With the current squad, can Rodina easily avoid transitional matches and retain its place in the RPL, as Akron did in its first season?
— I am more than sure that everything will be calm and calm. With this compound or another compound. I repeat, change the whole team — and what will be better? Rodina cannot bring 11 Mbappe. But I'm sure that with the current squad, we can safely stay in the RPL. And not just to stay, but to fight for high places.
— Are you watching the current World Cup? Did you particularly like someone?
— Cape Verde did well. Benshimol played for them—my friend from Akron. Well done, we got out of the group in our debut World Cup and drew with Spain (0-0). By the way, despite this initial misfire, I like the Spaniards too, they show good football. And France, of course, is impressive (the interview took place before France's defeat by Spain (0:2) in the semifinals. I liked Australia — it's a good fighting team, the guys can't do anything in it, they just play only long ball (only long passes. — Ed.). But they left the group.
— How do you like the performance of Benschimola's partner in the Cape Verdean national team, 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozigny, who became one of the discoveries of the World Cup? Was it a one-time burst, or is his skill visible?
— It's impossible to get to the World Cup in such a way that you play well on a one-time basis. I think he's a qualified goalkeeper. And he proved it at the World Cup.
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