Sergey Semak, vice-captain of the Russian national football team, one of the most titled and most technical RPL players, was chosen by the face of the FIFA 10 marketing campaign in Russia. We played with Sergey on the same field and found out if there is a sense in football simulators.
Wet and Sunny August morning we are a dozen football and game journalists, many operators, photographers and employees Electronic Arts – We wander through a strange photo studio in the north of Moscow. Sergei Semak is made up in the next room, and so far nothing happens, we are considering the room. You will not find yourself in such a day: this is a huge room, the walls and ceiling of which are often, often pulled out with elongated plastic pyramids. On the sides of the pyramids shallow grooves, with which they cling to metal rails on the wall.
– What kind of room is such? – One of the journalists incredulously pulls off the pyramid from the Reiki and shakes her near her ear. Something rustles in the pyramid.
“Yes, this is a soundproof room,” I say. – Look, what a huge hall: there is probably not just a photo studio, but a whole filming pavilion. In such rooms, sometimes the purity of sound is also checked. The pavilion is apparently still Soviet, everything is old here, so it looks so strange.
Several people turn around and shake their heads appraisingly, but then a semac appears and forget about the soundproof room. The shooting begins.
Semak was chosen by the face of an advertising campaign EA Sports Fifa 10 , But his photos will not be on the cover. This year, in Russia, the game will only be released on PC, PS2 and PSP (on the Xbox 360 and PS3 will appear, most likely in 2010). Sergei participates in the promotion of the game only this year, so they decided that if FIFA 10 is now releasing with a photograph of Semak, and next year – with a photograph of another football player, then the players will be confused. As a result, Sergey will appear on banners on the Internet and in magazine advertising, and Rooney and Lampard will remain on the cover.
– Sergey, proud that you were chosen by the face of Russian football?
– I am proud? No.
All that speak of the modesty and directness of Sergey is true to the last letter: it has neither self -confident arrogance, nor cold stard. After five minutes of conversation, there is a feeling that we know each other all our lives.
– Just one of my sons, Ilya, has long played FIFA and he was very pleased when I was offered to participate in the advertising campaign of the game. I agreed.
– You don't even feel any responsibility?
– And what is the responsibility here? – Semak smiles disarmingly. – I have to only share my impressions of the game.
In fact, not only: the photographer looks at the Mat of Advertising, sent from the head office, pretends how to expand Sergey, sets up the light. Makes several frames, moves Sergey a little to the side, asks to raise his hand a little higher, then lower it a little lower, then move the leg by three centimeters to the right, lay the second fold on the T -shirt, make the face “flowering”. Sergey is trying. The photographer watches the pictures on the big screen in breaks, and Sergey goes to the next room – there is a son there is waiting for him.
All shooting takes no more than half an hour, but the journalists have already fledged. Noticing this, Sergei asks:
– And you know where we are?
Gwating rises:
– This is a sound recording studio!
-In-in-in, such things are still used in factories for the production of audio equipment to make noise insulation better.
– Only this has remained since Soviet times, so such a room is strange – everything is just the old!
“Why are you,” Sergei at once loses his entire pretense of “courageous” view. – After all, Buran was collected at this facility. We are standing in one of the workshops. In these pyramids, a special coal mixture so that there is no one from the cosmos, what happens inside, and it could not be enlightened with anything. You were going here, by car? Noticed what streets there are – long and straight? This is so that at night the details could be pulled out on the hangar tractors and bring it directly to the landfill. Our hall is still small, but there are several of them, the largest – 9000 cubic meters. What did you really don't know?
Simple scene.
Because of fifa did not play worse
After photography, we go to the Lokomotiv stadium – here in the presidential bed (the same, equipped with special panels to protect from unsuccessful flying objects), Sergei will play virtual football.
– You heard about football simulators before you were offered to become a FIFA 10 face?
– Certainly! In our team, in my opinion, everyone plays in them. Not between matches and training, of course, but at preparatory training camps.
We come to the training base per day, except for a football field and a hotel, there is usually nothing there. What to do? We carry PSP with us-someone watches films, and someone plays. I don’t know how women, but men until old age, though adults, but children – we need cars and toys. For two -week fees, sometimes we take large consoles, we arrange tournaments.
– and analyze virtual matches?
– What are you! – Sergey brushes away. – We have enough real ones, our!
– That is, learn how to play football by playing a football simulator on a computer, you can’t?
– Play football, of course, you can't learn. But you can get a lot of things. A football simulator like FIFA 10 is a colossal knowledge base! The history of clubs, the characteristics of the players, data on all injuries and transfers – do not look for anything on the Internet, for you everything has already been collected and systematized.
In addition, you can experiment with the arrangement of players on the field, vary tactics, collect perfect teams – food for thought is enough. In real football, you will never try as many combinations as in electronic.
– perfect trainer for a coach?
– You can say so. But this is an amateur: it’s much more interesting for me to think about the tactics of the game than to press the buttons. I'm not very good at this ..
– Often Ilya beats you?
– Happens. He has more experience! This is before, when I was alone, I could come, fall on the sofa and play all evening, and now I have four children. I am a very liberal father, unfortunately. I allow you to play on the computer for a long time, I'm going on the reason, we rarely see each other. It is worth appearing at home, like no one wants to let me go. I have to look for compromises: I’m going to ride a bicycle – I fasten the chair, plant a child. I'm twisting the pedals, he looks around. We ride … And he is pleased, and I feel good.
-And you do not think that because of computer games, young people began to train less, that the level of youth football is not the same?
-Some strange logic. Yes, there were no video games before, so everyone played football and did not play on the computer. Football was supposedly "at the level". And now the games have appeared, the youth fell into virtual stadiums-and the football allegedly lost something. But the situation in general has not changed: before everyone has played, now everything is not only in Russia, but also in Brazil, and in Spain, and on Yamaika – they play. Everything is in equal conditions again. What does this have to do with football?
The opinion “before the young played football well, and now because of the video games they began to play worse” not quite correctly. It’s just that life is changing: computer games appeared – excellent, there are more information, more opportunities for self -expression. You can play football, or you can play on a computer-people open in different ways.
In electronic football, I can't vouch for myself
– This year in FIFA first appears Russian Football Premier League-24th in a row. It does not seem to you that they added it too late, because Russian football is probably not 24th place in the world?
– Late, of course, but this not only depended on the developers: I know that negotiations were held for a long time, I just could not resolve the issue with all clubs. After all, in order to add to the game the league of an entire country, you need to agree with each club separately. It seems to me that additionally developers have spurred that https://royal-lama-casino.co.uk/ interest in Russian football has appeared in the world. We stood out, began to take cups in Europe – and now it became curious for people what for the championship, what the players look like, in which cities we play. In my opinion, this is a huge step forward to popularize Russian football in the world.
– And it seems to you – it seems that the teams turned out?
“Let's see,” Sergey takes a gamepad (the game is launched on a computer, but it is inconvenient to play on the keyboard standing) and begins to flip through the list of Russian teams. – So … I look, there are different characteristics – protection, defense – are evaluated on a stobal scale. I wonder which club, according to developers, is the strongest in RPL? “Terek” … “Tom” … “Spartak” … “Spartak”, apparently, is lame … But “Zenith” … “Zenith” is better, but weakened in connection with the departure of Arshavin and the burial … It is interesting to see if it is reflected in whether it is reflected in In the game that Danny was injured and dropped out for a long time. Yeah, according to the developers, the strongest Russian club is CSKA. Still, they have a brilliant attacking game. Now “Moscow” … She lacks stability, although 66 points, in my opinion, do not reflect the real power of the team. Here is "Rubin"! Starting arrangement-4-4-2, and one forward is a little in front, the other a little from behind, everything is correct.
– And the characteristics of the players coincide?
– Here we have an striker Dominges and midfielder Caradenosis … Yes, the assessment is adequate, everyone has pros and cons of. We have an even composition, a well -chosen team, albeit without stars, to prove that the players have no superstitions and they are ready to play with anyone, Sergei chooses “Spartak” (we played on August 25, before the meeting of Kazan from the red -the); The match "Spartak" – "Rubin" is loaded. – I would have allocated Alexander Bukharov, this is a young but very talented player, this year I got into the national team. FIFA 10 does not even have his photo, but I think they will soon talk about him.
– In general, in our championship now there are a lot of spectacular matches … – here the download is ending, the judge’s whistle is heard, and virtual football players are scattering around the field. – Wow, what graphics, they move like living things, from afar and you can’t break it, this game or television! – From habit, Sergei holds a gamepad on an outstretched arm and uncertainly touches the stick. His opponent is EA manager Cyril.
– Dad, yellow button is a background, green is a short pass! – tells Ilya. Sergey begins to be mastered: a small virtual football player is busy twisting and doing one tackle after another.
“So,” Sergey continues, “if earlier the main intrigue of the season was a skirmish“ Spartak ” – CSKA, now the meeting with the participation of Zenit, Moscow, Rubin is unpredictable … Yes, the fans are out of habit,“ CSKA match – ““ Spartak ”by the central confrontation of the season, but given the tournament situation and the strength of the teams, this is not so-on the screen red and white make a mistake, and Rubin players rush to the enemy gates. Some of the defenders of Spartak plays roughly, and the judge appoints the penalty area. A football player appears on the screen in a green T -shirt with a seven number.
– Look, virtual Semak! Similar?
– Outwardly … the similarity, if not amazing, is very strong – the Spartaks and Rubinists run into the penalty area, and the virtual Semak puts the ball in front of him and waits.
– Pa, press lightly to blow and pull the steak on yourself! – Ilya tells again. Sergey obediently does as they advise. The virtual Semak scatters and hits: the ball flies along the bizarre trajectory, envelops those crowded in the penalty players and leaves the left of the gate. The goalkeeper rushes to him and overtakes in flight. Ilya gives a sigh of disappointment:
– Such a moment missed!
– It's time for Dzhanaev in the national team! – Signed from the crowd.
– How, after all, we still have Akinfeev and Malafeev, and Gabulov from Dynamo and Gabulov? – reporting journalists. Sergey does not pay attention to the dispute: he concentratedly runs to the other end of the field, where the Spartakians launched a counterattack.
– And in terms of characteristics, the virtual Semak looks like you? It is indicated that the ball control is your horse. Is it true?
– I don't know, – it seems that Sergey is very uncomfortable that he does not know that. – I myself can’t say what kind of horse I have, and people who make up all this can not be. But in general – yes, true. Percentage of interest by eighty. In general, football players with humor relate to such "profiles". It is clear that the skill of a football player is difficult to evaluate in points, we are not cars. It is taken, I think, some average quality, the number of performances is taken into account.
– Let's, by the way, will see the profile.
– Come on, – we go to the menu. – The surname was written correctly … The year of birth … also right, but this is in vain! You could write 1980 to mislead managers. The preferred leg is the right … Well, it depends on which side of the bed you are sleeping, – Sergey puts the gamepad with a smile: the counterattack of Spartak choked, and the players went to a break without opening the account.
– It is unpleasant what you are called an age football player?
– In Russia, it is difficult with this. In Europe, they are easier to age value: if you play well, then no one cares how old you are. We constantly have to prove something. But we are no longer living in the Soviet Union, where for ten years all the juices squeezed out of the football player: at twenty he began to play, conducted all his youth at the training camp and training, and thirty of him had no remaining left. I can say that with proper preparation you can play up to 40 well – over the years, the technique does not disappear. It becomes more difficult to compete with fast young players, but there is good football that, regardless of age, you can show stable results, manifest yourself from different sides. Age player is bad for the club. Football in Russia in many ways a raw material game: with an eighteen -year -old player, the club can conclude a contract for three years, raise, and then sell for decent money. And if you conclude a three -year contract with a thirty -year -old, then who will buy it when he will be 33? Still understand that he will go away at 35.
– And you will also leave at 35?
– Now I have both health and the desire to play football. I feel like the right club and, of course, I'm not going to go anywhere. In football, the team, the atmosphere itself, the organization of the club – while all this is, I play a lot, I play, in the meantime, Ilya takes possession of the gamepad, and it becomes noticeable that watching the game of son Sergey is much more pleasant than playing himself.
– Dad, dad, I will replace.
– That's right, let's change Semak.
-No … better instead of Dominges, let's release Bystrov.
“He only trained this morning,” Sergey explains to the assembled. – Now he will show how to play, – Ilya makes a replacement, and the game is reviving. Kirill, the manager of EA, does not have time to reflect Rubinov's raids.
– It is necessary to beat, beat, beat! Ilya hisses.
– Watch what Bukharov is doing! – Sergey exclaims it so joyfully, as if watching a game on a real football field. – I circled the three that I told you! Ah you! Hand! – in the penalty area Bukharov stops the stricemen and unexpectedly gives him to be in the face.
– We saw, saw! Card to him! – Walk in the crowd. The judge does not give a card.
– Judge for soap! – the fans are indignant. – Let's take the match!
– Sergey, well, is it possible – you will get in the face , – Sergey shakes his head, and imperceptibly we begin to discuss virtual football players as if they were alive. -By the way, could you hit someone in the electronic version? You have in FIFA is a very low level of aggressiveness – only 61.
– It's hard to say, I can’t vouch for myself in electronic football. Although there I can afford anything: to earn a red card and freak out. Heard what to do in such situations? Rebill the match – and no problems. And I will pass on the lumpy so that he doesn’t beat in the face, he plays very rudely here, – Sergey laughs.
– A! By! – cries Ilya. The main time ends, and the judge adds two additional minutes. Journalists rise from excitation to tiptoe, so they want to see at least one electronic goal.
– Look, Spartak plays very risky, opens. In real football, they are much more careful, – comments Sergey. Here the virtual Bukharov pulls the ball into half of Spartak, makes Semak a fantastic program, and he sends the ball to the enemy’s goal. Kirill shakes Ilya's hand: the boy beat the FIFA 10 manager with a score of 1: 0. Sergey claps his son on the shoulder. In the evening they fly to Kazan, and in less than a week later they return to the match “Rubin” – “Spartak”, there will be distinguished by Semak, meters from 25 in touching the ball in the plot of the bar, and the young Bukharov, and even the replaced Dominges, but this is There will already be a completely different game.
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