Two-time world champion among juniors Aleksandra Trusova leaves her trainer Eteri Tutberidze for Yevgeniy Plyushchenko. Anatoliy Samokhvalov explains why the new challenge for Trusova is like a casino in which she will play against her new coach.
Sasha’s transition transfers the verbal conflict between the groups of Tutberidze and Plyushchenko to a new battle stage. From Instagram to the ice. Their scolding is still memorable, in which Plyushchenko even went to defend the merited coach of Russia Tat'yana Tarasova, to whom he has a globally negative attitude all his life. For Yevgeniy Viktorovich to support Tat'yana Anatolyevna, he needed serious inspiration. The role of the muse was brilliantly performed by Eteri Georgiyevna.
" When an athlete changes coaches, this is normal, " recalled Yevgeniy in an interview with RIA Novosti, speaking about the transition of Alexey Yagudin from Alexey Mishin to Tarasova.
" It’s human nature to seek a new technique, a new breath, a new vision, but you still need to remain human. "
A person switching to Plyushchenko from the best coaching group. What for? Previously, they've left in search of their own personality and a more mature relationship. They ran away, waving flowers or forgetting about them in order to declare their
"Ich". When this
"Ich" was supported by year of birth in the passport, a personal opinion, the desire to be the master of oneself?
Such motives are unlikely to accompany Sasha Trusova. She is a girl with character, but her disputes with the coaching staff were limited to numbers of jumps. Coaches used to recommend putting the bar lower, Sasha wanted to raise it. But by and large, the coaches were not against it. Five quadruples, the absolute maximum in women's single skating, which only Trusova is capable of, was being prepared for the World Championships in Montreal, as was confirmed on the Federation’s website by Sasha’s former coach Daniil Gleikhengauz.
I mean, I do not believe that Tutberidze had Sasha fettered in her initiative. Theoretically, one can imagine how constrained Alyona Kostornaya is due to her choreographic development, I assume that there are ideological disputes between Kostornaya and the headquarters and Alyona is fighting for her ego. But Sasha at the current stage is a technical fighter, and you won’t get much discussion in this field. Yes, and why?
In general, most transitions are not a matter of this romance of progress, but the practice of income. Therefore, I have little faith in the fact that the skater herself, on her way to the next training session, thought about moving to a new coach. Such things only come to a person's mind after skillfully acting on said mind from the outside. If we are talking about skaters of the magnitude of Trusova.
In my memory, the most honest attempt to lure was the course of the horse of the 1984 Olympic champion Oleg Vasil'yev, who stated directly in the press: "Lipnitskaya can be kept in pair skating." Both fans and colleagues interfered with Oleg Kimovich, but he openly said in the same press: “I understand that she won’t take it and will not rush in pair skating right now, but such an idea could crept into her head and lie there for some time for this purpose I voiced my thoughts. "
Only this “Vasiliev’s attack” in today's figure skating is as likely as a child’s chessmate in grandmaster chess. In figure skating, such things are done quietly, stealthily, as if by chance. But for the same purpose, that thought lay in my head. And if Vasil'yev could offer Lipnitskaya a day of hard labor plowing together with some tough boogie for the sake of a little hope for an Olympic medal, then Plushenko beckons with very understandable instincts: sponsors, new sponsors, future sponsors, performances in shows, photo shoots with Gnomich in caps from coveted brands, “Tatler” ball, a “Porsche” on freshly rolled asphalt near the ice rink and other VIP business de luxe luxury sets.
Sasha is allowed to take all this from the table Plyushchenko offers, but how much of this will she grab with her thin arms? Plyushchenko is not a charitable foundation, but an investment fund. And Yevgeniy philosophically parted with combustible shares, which he repeatedly proved.
He believes that talent should not pay for itself, but talent should still pay - with results. The result is not necessarily the Gold of the European Championship in the fight against Kostornaya and Anya Shcherbakova. The result is when you are constantly progressing.
By the way, the fact that Sasha was left only with Bronze at the three key starts of the last season, in my opinion, does not play any role in her departure. Both she and the coaches, and her rival friends, realise that they can swap places five times a day. Trusova's Bronze is by no means evidence of stagnation.
Only yesterday Sasha had the right to this stagnation, today she is deprived of it. Stagnation in the Plyushchenko Investment Fund will entail a recommendation to find a new coach. Trusova entered the casino, and so far she has successful cards. But her coach plays against her.
I clearly remember the first starts of the coach Plyushchenko, he was sitting behind the boards and was a figure of interest. Right during the skating runs of some pupil, he would receive information about colleagues and their skaters. He settled in in the new environment, sniffed even, and then his first disappointments came.
Novice Plyushchenko was very upset about how conveniently and almost like on a conveyor belt the skaters of the two metropolitan collectives - Khrustalny and CSKA - were getting results. And how his “Angels” in black suits didn’t get points, in his opinion, because they were as new as himself, a two-time Olympic champion.
Later, he was very proud of the victory of his girl over the girl from Tutberidze. Just a year ago, Yevgeniy shared with me: " We have Sonya Titova, she recently turned 10 years old, and she beat the champion of Russia and Moscow in this age category, Veronika Zhilina. "
A year later, Veronika Zhilina, master of the quadruple Toeloop and triple Axel, followed Trusova from Tutberidze to Plyushchenko. “ Titova, while in her previous group (Tutberidze's), did not compete for a year and a half. I think this is terribly wrong. But each team, each coach has their own approach, ” Plyushchenko said then.
Now Titova and Zhilina are together, now they are in the same role for Trusova as Kamila Valiyeva previously. And all of them will also grow up, and will show their
"Ich".
I've always enjoyed watching Plyushchenko work on ice. This coach, albeit with little experience, achieves the complete picture in the little skater: arms, legs, torso, and skate off. He even tries to make his signature Plyushchenko pose out of Pinocchio. Only a year ago, almost no one saw this. Now his work will be studied under a magnifying glass, the very one that he requested in order to discern Aleksey Zheleznyakov, the choreographer of Tutberidze.
And certainly Yevgeniy will not be forgiven any mistakes.
When Plyushchenko finally decided to dive into the business not as the head coach-manager, but as the field commander of his personal “Plyushchenko Group”, which contains the unfinished kids written off by the same Tutberidze, I asked him: “ You can say:' I’m a coach, come to me, you'll be no worse off '? "
“ I can repeat this openly, ” Plyushchenko said. “ Both in terms of conditions and in terms of our coaching team, we are no worse. We have a strong contingent. Therefore, we are not asking for you, but are waiting. ”
Waited .... Little warrior, it seems a nobleman is coming.
(c) Анатолий Самохвалов
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) will get even more attention from even better motivated coaching staff. Anyway, I hope Khrustalny gets good coach to replace Rozanov, VUX and novices are future and need to be in good hands.
hoping she's up for the major challenge of this big move and all the controversy that comes with it. To me it looks like Sasha handled the success perfectly but when she had three bronze erformances in a row she could not handle it. That is concerning and you can't fix that. 
