Dmitrii Shilov: from bankput to millionaire. Eks Aleksey

the training schedule did not allow him to attend any classes at all.

      – What can I do for you?”

      – Maybe you have some individual training programs for athletes or correspondence tuition?

      – Dmitrii…

      – Mitya.

      – Mitya. It isn’t the national hockey League, this is the nonferrous metals University.

      – So I’m also fighting for gold, “Yenisei” is the champion…

      – Our students are taught to fight for gold in the factory, carrying out the plan.

      – Are there any options?”

      “Of course there are! If you do not get into “Krastsvetmet”, you will go to KrAZ and,

      instead of fighting for gold, you will fight for aluminum.

      – Oh.…

      – Yes, so choose-either to study and in five years to get a good job, or sport. There’s no other way.

      “Thank you, good-bye.”

      – Goodbye!

      If Mitya’s studies began with a student card, they ended with another document- a credit card. In September all students got credit cards, where the scholarship was transferred. A month later Mitya stopped going to classes, and three months later the scholarship stopped coming to the card. The former student Dmitrii Shilov realized that his absence at the lectures was noticed. He did not appear at the University of non-ferrous metals any more. Hockey with a ball became a matter of life for Mitya at that time.

      #2011

      Mitya always easily communicated not only with people of his age, but also with people much older than himself. From the age of 18, as soon as it became possible to drink, he easily communicated with adult men as with his friends. It was possible thanks to joint training of the young with the elderly and thanks to quite simple customs of Siberian sport. And Dmitrii Shilov had been doing sports since he was 5 years old, and at first it was… figure skating. In the end, he didn’t become the Siberian Evgeny Plushenko, at the age of 7 Mitya began to play hockey with a ball which was loved by most people in Krasnoyarsk, and had been playing for 14 years.

      Stadium “Yenisei” #1998

      Evening training on the ice of the stadium “Yenisei” ended, and the field players one by one skated to the cloak room. This element was always carried out quickly and accurately without additional commands of the head coach. By that time Mitya had moved from the outfield players into goalkeepers —the guys with the best skating ran to attack, and Dmitrii Shilov continued his father’s work, being the only player of the team without a stick. And there was no discrimination – in hockey a goalkeeper was not supposed to have a stick. Against high-speed forwards, a goalkeeper of Russian hockey has only sleight of hand, reaction and task to hit the ball with any part of the body.

      – Hey, guy! – Mitya was called by a hockey player of a medium height in his mid twenties, – do not run into the cloak room, stand up at the gates gates, I want to work through my strikes.

      – “Well, come on,” Mmitya agreed, “practice will never harm.”

      – “Learn, lad, while I am alive!” – an experienced striker said and with careless movements of his stick he lined up a straight row of balls on the ice, —

      come on, catch, don’t shame the name!

      “We’ll see who shames himself here,” Mitya chuckled to himself. In “two-way” where fast movement is very important, Mitya didn’t remember that guy. But while training he hit hard and as the gates in hockey are small, orange “cannonballs” flew from this “gun” mostly into a goalkeeper. Shoulders, arms, legs were hurt, a couple of times they flew into the stomach. Finally, the bombardier got tired and waved to Mitya, saying, “let’s go!”, moved into the cloak room. And then, feeling under the sweater several fresh bruises, Mitya could not keep silence:

      – Why are you hitting so hard?

      – Hard? the sniper took off his helmet, his red hair was wet. – It was I who pitied you!

      – OK, next time you will stand at the gate, and I’ll hit.

      – All right. Hey, how old are you?

      – — Eighteen.

      – Hey, a grown man! Let’s go there and drink with the guys after a long and hard training.

      – Come on. What’s your name?”

      – — Vladilen.

      – — Vladimir?

      – “Not Vladimir, but Vladilen. From Vladimir Lenin.

      – I’m Mitya.

      – I know! You’re the son of Sergey Ivanovich, I remember when you were young. I could burst into tears from emotion, but it’s cold, and all the tears have gone out through sweat.

      – Well, let’s restore the water balance!

      – — Well, vodka is 60 percent of water!

      Never before the players have changed their clothes after training so quickly and purposefully… After all, sport is a big school of life. And the evening continued exactly the same way, as many years later many joint evenings will be held with the participation of Dmitrii Shilov and Vladilen Vyazhevich.

      Mitya, are you sure that you will be a goalkeeper?

      – Sure.

      – That’s a boy! Now look, don’t switch!

      – “For what?”

      – The forward. I don’t want any competition.

      Big sport #2001

      People leave big sport in different ways. Mitya honestly played several seasons in Krasnoyarsk, Chita and Bratsk, but sports career was not long. He left for Chita as the third goalkeeper, eventually he became the first one, and the team moved from the first League into the highest. It would seem to be a success, but a new coach came and Mitya had to move to Bratsk. And again endless trips around Siberian towns, games, again exit from the first League into the highest… A full feeling of deja vu without much development. And he would like to play in “Yenisei”, in his hometown, in the native district, at the native stadium. But dreams still didn’t come true, and then there were injuries and eternal companion of provincial athletes – alcohol Sport season is an endless sequence of repeated events which were boring for Mitya by the beginning of the third year. There was a chance to meet a legendary coach of “Yenisei” Sergei LOMANOV and instead of March, Mitya appeared at the stadium by May, but nobody forgives such delays… Why was it delayed until May? Because the young athlete had many friends. While he was drinking with friends, two months passed.

      So, Mitya became a veteran of the sport only at the age of 21. On the one hand, it was a great failure, but many years later Mitya said that it was better to finish sport career when you were young when you could change your life and get another profession. Retired from the sport men at the age of 35 men, as a rule, do not know how to do anything else, and they work as children’s coaches for a pittance. The great country pays great athletes in the past not great money. Or do you consider that they go to different deputies from big prospects?

      Dmitrii Shilov went away from hockey but by his own admission, he had dreams about the great Sergey LOMANOV for another two years. He looked skeptically and said directly: “I don’t need you in May. I needed you in March, Mitya!” Did Sergey Lomanov dream of Mitya? The history doesn’t say about it.

      But professional sport gave Mitya the