Biography Glory Metrev

The legendary right extreme Moscow Torpedo, Tbilisi Dynamo and the USSR national team went down in the history of domestic football as one of the most outstanding masters for all times. In years, the popularity of Glory Metrely was simply fantastic. Far from sports, people went to matches with his participation in order to look at his famous attacks. Every spring, the attention of football lovers was focused on the Black Sea resort cities-Sochi, Sukhumi, Gagra, Leselidze, a host, where the pre-season preparations for the championship of the country were started by football players.

And among the most interested viewers of the events unfolding here were, of course, local boys. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that after such visual lessons, the pupils of children's football schools from the southern cities were invited to the leading teams of the country. There are many examples of this. And one of them is the glory of the Majesty.

This name was given to him by his father, Kalistrat Fomich, who had worked his whole life in the best Sochi restaurants all his life. Not Vyacheslav, not Miroslav, namely Glory. There is no such thing in the church shrines, although the newborn was baptized. But, apparently, the father firmly believed that the name determines fate, and rare - especially. Guessed what to say there!

Glory caressed glory when he was only 24 years old, but one that the current generation of our players is unlikely to dare and dream. Millions adored him. Among the regalia Metreveli there are both higher awards that the national team of our country won in the history of their existence - the European Cup and the bronze medals of the World Cup. His name fell into folklore - the highest form of popularity.

Who does not know the joke about Metreveli? What team is he from? He grew up in a tiny wooden house in Lesnoy Lane. Now this lane is no longer there, in its place the quarter of residential skyscrapers has grown. Glory studied at the 6th Sochi School, where the museum of local lore is now located. In the post -war years, there were few entertainment in the city. After the lessons, the young Metrelya went to play football on the lawn in the forbidden zone near the railway tunnel.

Television also did not exist yet, but, having heard on the radio reports about the sports victories of Konstantin Beskov, Vsevolod Bobrov and Grigory Fedotov, Sochi boys drove the ball to dark. The first goals were scored to the sounds of steam butt. For Metrelyl in childhood, Alexander Ponomarev was an idol. He admired the goals he had beaten. And of course, he dreamed of learning to beat the same.

Pretty quickly the glory of the Metreli began to stand out with a special, elegant technique of processing the ball. At the age of 15, he was noticed by the Sochi coaches Lev Sarkisov and Peter Gavriliadi. Invited to the football section. In the year, speaking for the Sochi Dynamo, Glory Metrevili became the champion of the Krasnodar Territory and immediately received an invitation to the Gorky Torpedo, who performed in those years in class B.

The famous midfielder of the Golden Torpedo team of the beginning of the 10ths, Nikolai Alekseevich Manoshin recalled this: “In the year, several Torpedo players, including Ivanov and Streltsov, went as part of the USSR national team to the Melbourne Olympics. And then there was a rule: the team, delegating to the national team of their players, was exempted from participating in the championship of the country before their return.

But the sports form had to be supported. So we played comradely meetings. Once we went to Gorky, for a match with the local Torpedo, where he played the Metrevli. He acted in the position of the right insider, I was in the place of the left midfielder. In other words, Glory and I had to constantly play against each other. The confrontation was absolutely equal. And suddenly, in the last minutes of the home team, they get the right to corner.

I had to be responsible for Metreveli, but yawned his jerk behind his back. Glory took advantage of my mistake and scored the only goal in the match. Immediately after the game of Besskov, who was then the head coach of the Moscow Torpedo, suggested that he move to the capital. ” After several matches played in the USSR championship of the year, Metreyli secured the main composition of the torpedo, where his partners in the attack line were already forcing themselves to speak about themselves with victories at the Olympic Games, the Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR and others.

Valentin Ivanov and Eduard Streltsov. Having created the youth shock trio of attackers, the new Torpedo coach V. Maslov began tactical searches that led to the first silver medals in the history of the team. Metrelye spoke in all 22 matches, scoring 6 goals and honored to be included in the list of “better”, like both of his attack partners. In the year, Glory Mathel married.

The defender of the Moscow Torpedo and team captain Alexander Medakin introduced them to Tatyana's future wife. In the year, Tatyana and Glory had a son Sergey. In the year, speaking as part of the Moscow Torpedo, Glory Metrevil became the champion of the country and the owner of the Cup of the Soviet Union in football. He played that year he was simply great, which brought him the title of Honored Master of Sports.By the beginning of the second half of the final match, the national team of Yugoslavia was ahead of Bubukin hit the ball, but the goalkeeper Videnich somehow awkwardly repulsed the shell.

And suddenly, at a great speed, Metreli rushed and finished off the ball into the empty gate. Only after that did the USSR team managed to overcome the Balkans in extra time and win the championship title. The famous coach Nikolai Starostin wrote with admiration about the striker Metreveli: “Being in the blow, Glory Mathelle could alone plunge any international opponent. And he will do everything easily, without physical efforts noticeable in the eye, simple and elegant.

It is amazing how on the wings, a master in the football field is sweeping, and it seems that he is now playing now, in full, there is no power that will be able to detain him on the way to the gates. Only you wonder, due to which he gets such swift blows that the force takes out above all to the upper ball of this small and in the appearance of a dried athlete ... ”Indeed, the subwosers did not differ in special physical data.

But he was surprisingly jumping, fast, sharp. He jumped phenomenally in height: he easily took the bar on the cm with growth in the game could jump out so that the crossbar of the gate was at the level of the belt. Therefore, many balls were clogged with their heads. In the year, the country's national team performed a tour of South America. It formed incredibly successfully.

Three games - three victories over the national teams of Uruguay, Chile and Argentina.

In all three, the glory of the Metreli distinguished himself. After the match in Buenos Aires, he was offered to stay in Argentina. Any club was ready to take him, and no one skimped with the fee, they asked me to write any amount on a banking check with their own hand. Metrevil, of course, refused, continuing to play for the USSR national team, scoring the balls, Greeks, Danes, Poles, Portuguese, and the French.

Even the Brazilians once scored on a maracan stadium clogged under the eyeballs. Many years later, to the journalist’s question about the most memorable match in the life of Metreli, he called two: “The first is the final of the European Cup in Paris in the year. It's not even about victory, but the very nature of this match. Yugoslavs were in the account, and we not only recouped, but also won.

I have never experienced such nervous tension as then. Probably, matches of this level have always been and will be not only purely football, but also psychological battles. Our nerves were stronger. The second match is two years later in Argentina, in Buenos Aires. When the match ended, the audience suddenly surrounded me, and each of them began to pull my T -shirt in his direction.

I did not suspect that it was the custom of the Argentines and that such incidents are in the order of things. I was scared and looked around bewildered. Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief: I saw a policeman who resolutely paved the way for me. He took me by the arm, and under his guard, I freely reached the locker room. There, this policeman politely, with the help of a translator, asked me to give him a T -shirt as a souvenir.

Which I did. But, of course, the Argentinean match is not only remembered for me with this episode. In my opinion, this was the most brilliant performance of our team. Until now, everyone who participated in that match recalls him with pleasure ... ”The championship of the year was the last, in which Matheli played for the torpedo. Already in the starting match of the championship in March, he made his debut as part of the Tbilisi Dynamo, which defeated the Leningrad Zenit with an account with the advent of Metrev, the team’s power in the attack was noticeably intensified.

The four forwards were even more shed, delighting both improvisation in the combination game and performance. The team of peers and like -minded people gravitating to each other and on the field and outside him began to take shape. Game discipline became above - the basis of the foundations in any team game. Martyn Merzhanov recalled in his book “Once again about football”: “Tbilisites always knew a lot about attack.

This is in their blood.