Sports experts found a lot in common in the fate of this football veteran and the famous Eduard Streltsov. However, Yuri Sevidov was not a conceited person, despite the fact that he was a skilled player on the field and an experienced coach. A man with a difficult fate, he scored colorful goals and put his players on the first lines in the championship tables. Who helped Yuri Alexandrovich to take part in the profession and how did his football career end? Let's consider this question in more detail.
The successor of the football dynasty
All the Soviet fans of the generation of the 50-90s remember the legendary forward of the Moscow Torpedo. They are well aware that Alexander Aleksandrovich Sevidov could not fully reveal his potential as a player due to the injury. He had to leave big football and focus on his coaching career. And it should be noted that in this field he achieved tremendous results. With him, his wards from Minsk Dynamo and Almaty Kairat quickly became leaders among the teams of the major league.
Interest in football, Alexander Alexandrovich instilled in his son in his youth. Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich - a native of Moscow. He was born on August 24, 1942. Already in his teens, he played in the youth team of Spartak. Then his father was engaged in coaching in Stupin.
Alexander Alexandrovichâs colleague, Stepanovâs trainer, then told the boy that if his fatherâs genes prevail, he will achieve good results on the football field. At age 14, Yuri spent all his free time at the stadium, comprehending the basics of football mastery in the team of his parent's wards. The young man was supposed to begin his career as a player in the Moscow Torpedo, but Alexander Alexandrovich, in the light of the arrest of Eduard Streltsov, was careful not to give the offspring to the capital's club. In the late 50s, the coach was offered a job in Chisinau, and he took his son with him.
Player career
It was for âMoldovaâ that Yuri Alexandrovich Sevidov began to play. But a year later he was transferred to the Moscow Spartak. The next five years, the young man plays for the âred and whiteâ, and in 146 matches he manages to hit the opponentâs goal 71 times.
In 1961 he became the bronze medalist of the Soviet championship, a year later Spartak won gold, and a year later - silver. On the field, he served as a âdrawn-offâ center forward (then the coach used a system with a double center in the attack).
In 1962, Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich, whose photo adorns the front pages of sports publications, became the country's top scorer in football, and for this the Trud newspaper awarded him with a special prize.
Then he is invited to the country's Olympic team, and in three matches he manages to score one goal. In the early 70s, Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich - a football player who plays in Shakhtar Donetsk, Moscow Dynamo Club, Ryazan Spartak.
Misadventure
In the mid-60s, a major career change took place in the forward. Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich, whose biography contains a lot of interesting things, driving a car along the embankment at the place where the Yauza flows into the Moscow River, knocks down a pedestrian. The victim is twice the Stalin Prize laureate, the Lenin Prize triple laureate, academician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences D. I. Ryabchikov. It is good that an ambulance drove in the next row, which took the scientist (he was conscious) to the hospital. The surgeon on duty at the medical institution took some time off, laying his professional responsibilities on an inexperienced student. He gave the victim anesthesia, but the elderly manâs heart could not stand it. As a result, a fatal outcome was recorded.
Survey procedures were not carried out. This is the difficult situation Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich found himself in. The sports career of a football player was in jeopardy. He was given 10 years in prison and was deprived of the title of master of sports.
Career coach
Yuri Alexandrovich was amnestied, and he served four years in prison. For some time, the player played for the above clubs, and then decided to engage in coaching. He started with the junior national team of the capital, and then switched to the teams of masters of Vologda, Makhachkala, Baku, Yaroslavl, Ryazan.
"Magnesite"
But the graduate of the higher school of trainers is especially proud of the achievements that were achieved with the team of Satkinsky âMagnesiteâ. He began working with her in 1997, and Sevidov managed to take first place in the Cup of the region with his wards.
Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich was able to turn Magnesite into a close-knit team. Using unshakable authority and possessing wide knowledge in the psychology of a football player, the coach was able to find the optimal balance between experienced players and beginner forwards, between defense and attacking actions, between discipline and creativity.
And such ambitious tasks are subject only to a recognized mentor, which is Yuri Alexandrovich. He could discern in the promising players S. Vilkove and V. Izhik the âdefensive" potential of the defenders. It was he who launched the âsecond windâ, which opened among veteran players V. Paskhin, M. Akhmedov, A. Panin.
Working methods
Even in the absence of information about the intricacies of the opponentâs game, Yury Alexandrovich Sevidov, a trainer from God, showed restraint and composure. In such cases, he âdirectedâ the game âoff the sheetâ. What does it mean? In other words, in the first forty-five minutes, the mentor analyzed the tactics of the opponentâs game, and already during the break he gave instructions to his wards. Sometimes it happened that in two halves Sevidov repeatedly made adjustments to the tactics of his team. All this was done by quiet and short remarks. But even such laconicism players were able to decipher as twice two. Choosing a particular pattern of alignment of forces on the lawn, Yuri preferred to focus on attacking football.
Sevidov, sitting on a coaching bench, rarely gave vent to his emotions. In the event of force majeure situations, when the degree of passion on the field was heating up to the limit, he loudly said: "Bounced!" Thus, he made it clear to his players that one should not get involved in potential conflicts and verbal confrontation with an opponent.
Qualities that helped in the work
Yuri Alexandrovich, performing the coaching work, was always collected, calm and sociable.
He is a pleasant conversationalist and an interesting storyteller. It seemed that in football there were practically no secrets for him. Sevidov was always objective in the assessments of his charges, but seeing these or those shortcomings of the players, he tried not to publicize them, but strictly individually worked to eradicate them. For 3 rounds before the final stage of the regional championship-97, Yuri Alexandrovich had to say goodbye to his favorite club and return to the capital. In gratitude to his mentor, âMagnesiteâ won the competition. Over the next years, the team won prizes, being in the lead. Fans who began to position Magnesite as a real champion team were very annoyed when the Satkins dropped to second or third places in the standings.
last years of life
In the zero years, Yuri worked more as a sports expert. In "Soviet Sport" he was offered the position of observer.
Sevidov often began to flicker on television, commenting on football matches. In addition, he was one of the presenters of the Sports Channel program, which aired on Mayak radio. He also, together with ex-striker Alexander Bubnov , discussed the sports topic in the Football Chronicles program on the Russian News Service radio.
At leisure, Sevidov liked to listen to jazz music, he managed to collect a huge music library. His daughter chose the profession of a singer.
Conclusion
He died on February 11, 2010. Under what circumstances did Sevidov Yuri Alexandrovich die? Death overtook him in the Spanish city of Marbella, where the legendary coach went on the instructions of his employer. The observer was preparing material about a football tournament.
At night, he had pains in his heart, and after some time he died - the ambulance did not have time. The legendary football player was buried in the Vostryakovsky cemetery of the capital.
In honor of the eminent coach, a monument was erected: dressed in a T-shirt with a Spartak rhombus, Yuri Alexandrovich enters the game in Luzhniki. The design of the monument was invented by the daughter of a football player. The foot of the obelisk is decorated with black and white football tiles.