Leningrad: what will be Tosno's heir?

DEATH "TOSNO"

In early June, there was an inevitable – the football club "Tosno", five years after the pbadage of PFL to liberation in of the Premier League and the victory in the Russian Cup, has ceased to exist. The reason was commonplace – the lack of funding badociated with the lost interest of the sponsors in the unprofitable project, and as a result, huge debts – according to the results of the audit conducted in May, their amount s & # 39; It raised to 549 million rubles – which even pushed the potential rescuers of the club in the process of sinking. 19659005] These rescuers could become several commercial organizations related to the construction activity, that the government of the Leningrad region invited as shareholders to help the club – the management of Tosno was lozheno go procedure of constitution for greater transparency of the future management structure. But as the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexandre Drozdenko, said, when the future shareholders saw an audit report on the economic state of Tosno and its accounts payable, their reaction was unequivocal: "We love football, but not so much. "

The huge debts, some of which were opaque, were concise, it became immediately clear that Tosno would fall into the second league, so it was decided to create a club from scratch, which would also start in the second division but at the same time will require less cost. For comparison, two budgets were established – for the new club and for the rise of Tosno's bottom, and the difference was so important that the shareholders unanimously chose the first option. Thus was born the FC "Leningrad".

"Tosno" first developed erroneously: he attacked the FNL and the Premier League, and provided no reservations. As during the war – they captured the castle with the cavalry, and the convoys with the products were not prepared. As a result, the castle was quickly returned .

THE BIRTH OF "LENINGRADZ"

The initiative of its creation belonged personally to Drozdenko. In mid-May, the first discussions started, then an agreement was reached with the shareholders, after which it was possible to use an independent licensing procedure, to publish all the papers for two months and to declare the Leningrad for the coming season. The main objective was to create a club with the most direct relationship with the Leningrad region, the training of graduates of Zenit SSO and regional football schools, the search for talented children throughout the region, and the opening of children's colleges from Leningrad to Vyborg. , Kingisepp, Tosno and Gatchina, and bet on local players – like Kerzhakovs, Arshavin, Bystrov, Ionov and many others.

"Gennady Bondaruk was declared head coach of the team, but oversees the training process and Boris Rapoport will be responsible for the result."

PRINCIPAL COACH

This unusual pattern is explained by the fact that former Zenit head coach Boris Rapoport at this time does not have the necessary license to direct the driver. PFL team he will have in winter. Therefore, the nominal head coach of the "Leningrad" was Gennady Bondaruk, who is well with the license, and with whom they worked together in the "Pearl" of Sochi, but it is Rapoport who will lead the training staff. for the year. But the leadership of the team and the coaching staff frowns at me when I say that. In general, we will see what happens next. It is important to be financially and functionally ready for the FNL. "

To prepare financially," Leningrad "has 11 shareholders, including the Leningrad region, each of which has 9 per cent of the shares, in total – 99 per cent. General Manager of the club, Igor Levit, 10 shareholders (with the exception of the Leningrad region, which will help in the organization and maintenance of a new training base in Roshchino, where the Croatian national team was based during the 2018 World Cup) contribute annually 10 million rubles to the development of the club 100 million – the basic budget, but this is not the limit. has a number of friendly companies ready to badist it as advertisers, so this amount can increase further through sponsorship deals.

As mentioned above, the "Leningrader" will rely on students from local football schools Currently, 19 players appear in the school. application of the team

Goalkeepers: Vladimir Mukhin (27 years old), Daniil Sizko (24 years old)

Defenders: Andrey Blyndu (27 years old), Danila Dyatlov (19 years old), Sergey Kostin (27 years old), Maxim Petrov, Ruslan Bashirov, Yegor Spiridonov (all 18 years old and over).

Midfielder: Daniil Gorovykh (21)), Pavel Ignatiev (19), Yegor Kortsov (18), Dmitry Mironov (23), Ilya Bannov (29), Andrei Orlov (20), Alexander Petrov (26), Artem Semka (28), Vladislav Shepelev (17).

Avents: None (19 years old), Nikita Khlusov (18 years old).

The most unusual gaming experience of Andrey Blindy – he spent several years in Spain, where he played in Castellón and the double of Hercules.

season-2018/19 as a stadium of the house "Leningrad" will use "NovaArena" in St. Petersburg, part of the home games will also take place at the stadium of the city of Tikhvin. The first match of the club tomorrow: Wednesday 18 July, St. Petersburg "Leningrad" will take the "Kazanka" of Moscow – the second team of "Locomotive".

The club's ambitions are high – it will soon become clear how it will meet them.