“Rakhimov’s First Championship: Rubin Returns to RPL from First Place in FNL”

Report “SE” from Kazan, which returned to the Premier League from the first place in the FNL.

Rakhimov’s first championship: “I enjoyed the moment”

After the championship match “Ruby” Rashid Rakhimov, all alone, sat on the bench and watched the players with their wives and children celebrate the victory in the first league.

“I lost all my emotions when the final whistle blew,” the coach explained. — In those seconds, I just enjoyed the moment.

Rashid Mamatkulovich won seven victories in seven matches against Kazan – Rubin has not had such a series since the championship era. Perhaps, with such a line-up, the team would have solved the problem with both Leonid Slutsky and Yuri Utkulbaev. But to be so confident and from the first place is unlikely.

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Everyone in the club notes that it was Rakhimov who managed to find the right contact with the team, build a game and turn the club into those very “galacticos” of the first league.

This is Rakhimov’s first “gold” in his coaching career, but he celebrated very restrainedly – only in the locker room he finally smiled and made fun of the players: “Let’s all get together faster, we didn’t run on the field anyway!”

During his traditional speech, the coach, looking at the medal in his hands, promised three days off, allowed them to “try drinks” and congratulated everyone on the championship.

“Turn off the lights, otherwise the journalists will see what you have in the boxes here!” shouted Rakhimov, pointing at the champagne containers.

Fameye immediately turned on the music after the coach’s speech. And coach Dutov and defender Popov opened champagne. And flooded all the cameras in the room.

A couple more seconds – and Vitaly Lisakovich is already asking journalists to leave the locker room: “Paparazzi, leave! Everyone out!” Further celebrations are no longer for the press.

The entire Rubin – from players and coaches to staff and management – celebrated the gold of the First League in T-shirts with the words “Back Together”. The slogan “Let’s get back together” was launched in the summer by the forces of the previous leadership. The new bosses remembered it and decided to use it now, rounding off this story.

Even the president of Rubin, Marat Safiullin, put on one of these T-shirts – he went down from the VIP box to the award ceremony, took off his jacket and asked for a T-shirt, like Rakhimov.

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It often happens that prepared champagne, fireworks and a banquet have to be postponed or canceled altogether – even an average rival can disrupt the planned holiday. Today Dortmund was convinced of this.

Dynamo also went to Kazan with a similar task: one of the most pragmatic teams in the league was preparing to slow down Rubin and make sure that the champagne boxes remained sealed.

In the first half, it was possible: Rakhimov’s team, if superior to the opponent, was insignificant. And the goal unexpectedly came after an out: Samoshnikov many times threw the ball into the penalty area, but for the first time in the season this led to a goal (Fameye scored).

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In the second half, the striker scored a double, closing Kabutov’s cross to an empty corner. 2:0 by the beginning of the second half, although the game did not seem easy, and Dynamo almost did not allow failures from behind. But “Rubin” on the championship day punished the guests even for the smallest flaws.

After the second goal, Fameye went to the bench – the interpreter handed him a skullcap, in which Joel bowed. Immediately, the Rubin scorer was besieged by Alexander Martynovich – he took off his skullcap and said something in a raised voice.

From the outside, it looked like a shake-up and a message: it’s too early to celebrate, the match is not over yet! It seems that Rubin lacked just such a person a year ago – in that very match with Ufa, when Vitaly Lisakovich took a selfie after a penalty was scored. This time there was no drama: Kazan brought the match to victory, there were no problems with concentration, and Fameye was pouring champagne in the locker room literally an hour and a half later.

Will Slutsky get a medal?

Rubin was awarded 40 sets of medals for the championship in the First League: they were received by players and coaches, as well as club leaders.

A few days before that, Leonid Slutsky said that, according to the regulations, he is also entitled to a medal.

According to SE, the club will not order additional sets from the FNL to reward one of the previous coaches – this applies not only to Slutsky, but also to Utkulbaev, who was fired in the spring.

Rubin did not want to raise the topic: the club refused to comment, and Rakhimov did not give a clear answer at the press conference.

This question is not for me. There is a regulation. He had good stretches with the club, the team played very well. If he deserves, then, probably, they will send him [медаль]but again – the question is not for me, I didn’t read the regulations, ”the coach answered, after which he returned to the team and continued to mark the exit to the RPL.

It seems that a medal for Slutsky is the last thing Rubin thinks about today.