Biography of Leonid Slutsky
Leonid Slutsky is the main coach of the CSKA club, and also the coach of the Russian national football team. The athlete has many sports awards and the title of Honored Coach. In 2021, under his leadership, FC CSKA won the national championship (as well as in 2014 and 2013), the army team twice became winners of the Cup (2013, 2011) and the Russian Super Cup (2014, 2013).
Coach of CSKA and the Russian national football team Leonid Slutsky
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
Leonid Viktorovich was born in May 1971 in one of the maternity hospitals in Volgograd. At the age of six, a misfortune happened in the family - his father, Victor, a master of sports in boxing, died. Little Lenya was raised by her mother, who worked in a kindergarten.
Leonid Slutsky with his parents
As a child, Leonid attended the Spartak football section and 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.
Childhood photo of Leonid Slutsky
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.
In his youth, Leonid Slutsky was a goalkeeper
Coaching career of Leonid Slutsky
In 1993, the 22-year-old football player assembled his team of 12-year-old boys who dreamed of football - Olympia. At the same time, he studied at graduate school at his native university. Many of his first "pets" later grew into professional football players. In 1999, his team won the Russian Amateur Cup and received the right to move to the second division.
"Olympia" by Leonid Slutsky at the beginning of the victorious path
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.
2003: Leonid Slutsky coaches Uralan
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. Leonid Slutsky about returning to Russia. Evening Urgant 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 coached Krylia Sovetov until the fall of 2009
Burger love
The most famous meme associated with Leonid Viktorovich is his photo from McDonald's, in which he eats burgers with great pleasure. In 2009, the coach claimed that he ran into a fast food cafe due to lack of time, but fans still began to laugh at his love of fast food.
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