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Gleb Skripchenko reflects on the return of the experienced forward to Ukrainian football.
The phrase “Milevsky returns to UPL” might have sounded strong like that in 2013. Almost 2021, it is not the same. However, the event that many expected and whose probability almost everyone knew, officially became a reality the day before. The questions were about the club where Artyom will continue his career, and among the three possible options, he turned out to agree with Minai. The contract was signed for a year and a half.
It is practically not the native Kiev, where it would be easy to get to from Kovalevka, and not such a beautiful and always interesting Lviv, but a cozy little Uzhgorod (the distance from Minai to the regional center is minimal and even in the first interview the newcomer was welcome in Uzhgorod), although not so much and less than Brest (only almost three times!), where Milevsky spent the last years of his career.
The first thought that could arise in the head of a neutral fan, who does not feel any special pity for the former Kiev Dynamo striker, was simple: “Well, once again he showed his level.” If you look closely at the milestones in Artyom’s career, then it’s really hard to disagree with this.
In the best of years, Milevsky’s talent and potential was evaluated at the highest level. He successfully made the “panenka” in the penalty shoot-out of the German World Cup, scored against Real Madrid and Barcelona, together with Bangura he destroyed Spartak, at least once he distinguished himself with balls in the “Classic”, sometimes he demonstrated miracles of technique and always knew how to give an accurate pass, as they say “like a hand”. At one point, with Valery Georgievich Gazzaev, he was even the captain of the team. Of course, with small reservations, but they put the Ukrainian Belarusian, or the Ukrainian Belarusian, almost on a par with the young Shevchenko.
But, no matter how trite and no less sad it sounds, Artem chose his own path. It’s not up to us to blame him for this, but instead of at least Porto and Fiorentina (and maybe something bigger, but we did mention what was heard one way or another), we got Hajduk Split and Dynamo Brest. Oh yes, and Concord with Kishvarda …
It is possible (it may even be necessary) to blame the Kiev president as much as you like for delaying the sale of Milevsky for a long time and painfully, but then the same can be said about the situation with Yarmolenko. However, Andrei, also being a Dynamo player for much longer than prescribed, tirelessly demonstrated his skills on the field.
Our hero, however, basically did it in other places: he went tirelessly to nightclubs, appeared in public drunk (yes, he was most likely right that others drank no less, but it was Artyom who was caught), crashed a car in another. Any response to Surkis or later to Blokhin, whose introduction our robe hero came to? I’m sorry, but he wasn’t that age to act on the “I’ll freeze my ears against my mother” principle.
The only thing that cannot be denied: time has made it clear that, compared to his “kent”, Milevsky really looks like a doctor of science or a professor at an elite university, but it makes sense to compare whether each new opportunity received is in Kiev itself, in Turkey or elsewhere, became another similar scandal?
Of course, in the Brest period of his career, Artyom was able to partially regain his lost reputation. Very partially: the Belarusian championship is still something of a household name, even if you are the leader of your team there and become a champion with it, ending BATE’s 13-year hegemony. The football of our neighbors to the north is frankly weak, and nothing can be done about it (at least, we must not disconcert him), although in the context of his level Milevsky stood out remarkably even at 35. He scored, passed and even he deserved from the stadium announcer the name “Artem Vladimirovich” is dignified and respectful, as for a football player on duty!
But the realities of modern Belarus are ruthless, so the not very strong championship is starting to lose money entirely, and Dynamo Brest, which was one of the few clubs free (or practically free) from ties to the central government. , especially suffers. The common owners of the two Brest clubs are beginning to give preference to the local Rukh (not Lviv!), While there is practically no money for the main club in the city, and Milevsky has nothing else to do there. You see, soon another former two-Dynamos player in the Ukrainian championship will be able to catch up …
Therefore, initially it is difficult to say what is more in the transfer from Artyom to Minai: the sports or public relations component. The significant November words of the head coach Minay Vasily Kobin, they say, Milevsky is a good footballer, but he is already 35 years old, they say that he is the second, and a PR, made without the special wish of the coach. Although the forward had already managed to say that the words of his new mentor were simply misunderstood then …
One way or another, the personality of such a scandalous person on the team can’t help but draw attention to her, no matter how someone writes that this player has already been eliminated 100 times from all accounts. There will be more fans in Uzhgorod Avangard (in a normal situation with the coronavirus), the club will receive a lot of attention from journalists and more different stories will happen around Minay.
Sometimes a Transcarpathian club can enter them with a plus sign, sometimes with a minus sign, but most Transcarpathian football fans (and not only) will not remain indifferent. And to be honest, in our time it means a lot that the official YouTube channel Minaj has four thousand subscribers, while the Mila channel has 108. Someone in the Internet age doubts that after a couple of substantive episodes on the second channel , in the first it will be double?
If we take the purely football side, then now we will have the best chance to see if a footballer who stands out in the leader (or one of the leaders) of the Belarusian championship can do the same in one of the outsiders of the Ukrainian championship. In our humble opinion, in games not against Dynamo (by the way, in 2014, Artyom said that he would not play for UPL in any club other than Dynamo, although times go by, opinions change) and Shakhtar, quite a lot, but a definitive answer for us. only the nearest future will. The class, as they say, you will not drink and skip.
It’s impossible not to realize that this season is turning into a heyday for the aging forwards’ return to Ukraine. Before Artem, after long wanderings, Alexander Gladky, a friend of the Belarusian Ukrainian Evgeny Seleznev, Artem Kravets (although not for long) and Anton Shinder, by the way, the latter is now a teammate of our hero, came to our championship.
If we are looking for a louder parallel, then of course, in terms of scale and a kind of zigzag, Milevsky’s return to sparking interest in Ukrainian soccer cannot fully compare to Mircea Lucescu’s return in the summer. Only a very small fraction. But she, in one way or another, also returns to the UPL and what happens around it, an interest so necessary and so forgotten.
Artem Milevsky for our football, as well as for two Dynamos, despite all the flaws, was able to become something of a legend. Yes, with reservations, but it could. Therefore, we can only wish the talented footballer, who missed the opportunity to become a player of a slight scale (and not very small), to end his career on the field on a positive note. Although, of course, this is unlikely to change the big picture for many people.
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