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Mishin about Zhenya Plushenko in "Sports Week" on channel TV "Sport" - 14.09.2009.(from 1:57")
- Guberniev: Do you agree with me, that marriage of Plushenko and Rudkovskaya was the sporting event?
- Mishin: If you think so, I agree with you.
- G: Can Yana to help you, to be Evgeni win another Olympic gold medal?
- M: I think, she can, she knows how to wins. There are two types of wife - those that interfere in the work of coaches and disturb him ... and those who help him - I think taht Yana will be my good assistant in our path to victory.
- G: But they have had failures, negative experiences in life, I am talking about their previous marriages?
- M: I would now speak about the bad things, I wish them all luck. All three now need is focus to the future, where the first stage is the Olympics in Vancouver.
- G: Why is Evgeni so "long returns"? To be returned before, given the very weak competition in the men's figure skating last years, he would have had a few big wins?
- M: Immediately after Olympics 2006 raised the issue, but to win gold at the Olympics is very difficult, and it is a very big burden. All this years, Evgeni itself asking this question: come back or not? This year I was asked to train Lambiel ... or last year, during the European Championships in Helsinki, I approached the president of the French skating federation and told me that they are looking for Joubert's trainer, who has experience of winning at the Olympics ... I told him, I know how to win at the Olympics, but I know and Zhenya Plushenko, therefore, not more about the subject.
And how is solves the problem of return? Are solved so that - if a man feels that he still has the strength to fight, then he returns. But it is very rare.
- G: Many also wonder, why is him this necessary? Just married a rich and beautiful woman ... could deal with anything, making money... which does not in the skating competitions ...
- M: You know, outstanding people - make outstanding decisions - and this is in fully extent relations to Zhenya Plushenko!
- G: How would you rate its current form? They say that in one half-closed competition for a few days ago, he skate well?
- M: For the moment, he pretty good skate. About which I have feared? I feared above all, that Zhenya forgotten what it is competition, because it is not competed for almost 4 years, and may have forgotten what a fight ... but he is not forgotten.
- G: And how would you rate his skating in Novogorsk?
- M: You know, when we started the preparation, a few months ago, we decided to try get back him to the level of what he had before. I can tell you, that his spins is better than 2006 .... he have better intensifying to the fight ... has serious artistic outlook on life...
- G: Influence of Rudkovskaya?
- M: I would rather say, that they are 3 years of his life, in which everything went. And all this, incontinently broke out from him, while he skate .... and this is God's gift. You know, while skating, he is fighting for every viewer ... he just grabs the attention of every spectator.
- G: And the judges he can also grab it?
- M: You know, on the ice has people, which he not needed, people who are against him indifferently ...
- G: There are people who doubt about the possibility, that he can win ...
- M: You know, its still very far away and difficult road ahead of us, to the Olympics should get .... to win all these tournaments. So, I ask all media to not raise so much noise and applaud prematurely. It is important, that Evgeni in combat mood and ready for all the effort. Only more to help us God, and serve happiness ....
- G: This is not the first difficult period in Evgeni's life?
- M: This is a fourth difficult period in his life ... First, when he arrived in St. Petersburg, and lived, I can say in desperate conditions, in miserable joint communal apartment. Suffice it to say, that the woman in the neighborhood led the men in her apartment .. There is hunger, there is poverty ... I helped him, as much as I could, but I would not speak about it.
The second period, when he started winning, and when they reached the first money ... He gave all the money to his family, helped to the younger skaters. He was taught, how to cope with the burden of fame and money, had to prematurely ripen. He was always very devoted to family, and thus should be. I gives recognition to his parents, for all their trouble - a separate life, poverty ... Tatyana and Vladimir, his parents were not only done much for Zhenya, but and for the Russian skating in general, and for me, as his coach.... (known story - how Zhenya's mother wanted to return him home in Volgograd, and how he turn away her from it....)
The third a difficult period is when he was left alone, without Yagudin .... when Vaytehovskaya wrote: "Lonely King".
- G: You think, lonely in your group?
- M: No, in the world. Her sentence: "lonely king", well reflect a problem in which he was: to maintain the desire to fight, and there is nobody with whom he can to compete .... It is also difficult.
And now the fourth period: when the whole world against you! How will it all end - I do not know, I hope only to be ended successfully.
- G: You know better than us, but it seems that is the currently vacant position of the King ... If will the "old" king back for his crown, or will it be someone "new"?
- M: You know, when you have a known opponents, you know with which weapons will shoot you - it is much easier. And now you do not know, who will shoot you .... it is very dangerous.
- G: It is interesting that many skaters often change coaches. You are together for 15 years ... how did it happen?
- M: Coach is obliged to have one quality, that always works on the progress of his students. One, when Zhenya was little, I broke his finger on the hand. Instead of training, he went to play football with his friends .... and I will not hide to say - that it would punish him, I broke him finger.
I think, his mother was never criticized me for that, as was the severity at this moment, helped him that he might win, to properly understand the coach - athlete relationship.
But, If I was always been such to him, our association would be long time ago finished, because athletes grow and progress, and to him should be completely different act ...
- G: And how is yours relationship later continued?
- M. I am reply you with this ... sometimes, I went with him and advised him how to buy an apartment, which car ... Today, he advises me, which car to buy. I recently bought a car, which he was recommended.... So, you should listen to athletes, not only because he grew up, but because it has become wiser... And he has now become an accomplice in our the creative union, which makes a minimum: athlete, coach and choreographer. Zhenya is now fully equal with us, on this issue. So, you should listen athlete, his knowledge, his vision.... and it is very important, as the first thing. And second, the coach should not envy to athletes ... At one point, athletes started to earn more money than the coach - should not envy him. You helped him, and everything is fine, should be to remind... Most problems in relation to the coach - athlete, comes because of finances. Coach there should be very decent in that relations ... and all my students can confirm that: and Yagudin, Urmanov and Plushenko know, that I worked with them cleanly ....
- G: So, you are were confident in yourself?
- M: Of course, I am! That relationship would not last long, that I was not convinced. Fake relationship, jealousy, not good. So, the man should participate in it with full heart.
- G: What you are facing now with Zhenya's - preparations in Novogorsk, then the following tests, competitions... etc?
- M: Now, following routine preparation ... you know, it's as if painter create a picture, he knows what works - a move brush here, another strokes brush there ... It is a great and hard work. Because we want to Zhenya do something good, we work together - coaches, choreographers, costume designers, musicians ... Edvin Marton is there... David Avdysh, the famous choreographer, with whom I and Zhenya work of years ... We should put all elements properly. If each element are not in right place, our "Gioconda" not look well.
- G: I want you to yours the Vancouver's "Mona Lisa" make a lot of smiles, and bring you and Evgeni victory ... Professor Mishin know, how difficult it is.
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