Valery Karpin, who now sells the hot story of pride
Navigating the negligence cause of post-review-of-grade found a remarkable article in the Journal of Galicia, who would like to share with you all. When I was a fool Karpin was one of my idols in the English league in the 90's, of course behind the great central Belarus Andrei Zygmantovich to shine for their chops and expulsions at Racing Santander in those years. Karpin was the perfect blend of finesse player that could easily throw the team on his shoulder with a privileged view of game and that player Rowdy could well start a fracas with the coaching staff included in the tunnels way backstage. A crack. Public note below and post a brief comment.
(Excerpt from article published in the newspaper La Voz de Galicia, 21/10/2005)
The qualities that are valued both in the highest-paid soccer stars (intelligence, skill, talent) rarely reflect off the field game. His entrepreneurial spirit rarely go beyond riding a sports shop, a restaurant or bar. Some people choose to directly snorted all his assets, and the vast majority still believes that the cement, that big business is nothing but a cumbersome mass of gray that only serves to lay bricks.
The talent is lavished little off the pitch, but there are exceptions. Recently retired from kicking the ball, Valery Karpin (Tallinn, Estonia, 1969) is now a successful developer who breaks the stereotype associated with the player with the ignorance, the waste and the easy life.
Although new in the field, Karpin unfolds with ease between politicians and entrepreneurs to achieve their purposes. "It's a business like any other and I have much to learn. There are people my age in college, at age 35 you can never finish your working life, "he says.
Valery Karpin's office SL is installed on the third floor of luxury building Simeon, in the Puerta del Sol Their working hours are unpredictable. Presented today after eleven in the morning. Dress Italian design (a ring of Dolce & Gabbana gave him away), and gives off a fresh scent of newly rich metrosexual cosmetic fresh out of the shower. Displays its charm with the secretaries do the kisses every morning when he arrives?, And gives the first instructions of the day.
A glass table and two expressionist paintings acclimate the conversation. "I've done is move my concern working in the field of play to this new facet of my life and surround myself with people I trust and advises me," he confesses with humility.
Part of the argument that we need not fear the new. What other players do not? "Maybe" says Karpin? because a guy who has spent 20 years playing football is the only thing he can do. The player has a conservative and I understand, "he says.
His gesture is still tense. The press has always been bothered, but may not contain the laughter when we try to make a comparison between him and Abramovich, the Russian super-rich owner of Chelsea. "I wish I looked like, but I fear all we have in common is that we're both Russians," he says.
At this point, it is inevitable to talk about money, a lot of money. The existence of Russian mafia extort money from businessmen in exchange for financial support is to Karpin "a lie like a cathedral." The issue is particularly annoying him, so it's topical and, as an employer of uncertainty. "It's very easy to talk about mafia but what is a mafia? Is there a mafia in Italy? Is there a mafia in Spain? ... I ask you: is there? ". Karpin admits that the countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union have experienced a difficult process that has resulted in corruption cases, but denies the existence of a mafia phenomenon associated with large operations in investments in Europe. "There may be something, you do not know, as elsewhere. There was a time when everything was the rule, but now there are Russian businessmen, bankers free ... everything is shared, each has his own "he says.
Vigo is the operational center of Valery Karpin SL, despite his departure from Celtic can not be called friendly. The Russian is very clear. A difference is: One thing is a company called Real Club Celta and another to the city. "I spent five years living here and I was happy at all levels. Vigo I love with all its flaws, I catch the atmosphere that is breathed in the street ...», but its scope goes further: "I think Galicia is a community where there is great potential because it has everything. Lack of infrastructure, high-speed train, airports more competitive, but nevertheless, Vigo and Galicia are growing very fast. "
personal comment: In my opinion, Karpin was always a visionary in every aspect. Not only for his vision in the field of play, but what was remarkable to see the press conferences to which he was invited or TVE Antena 3 TV. I remember his bewilderment when asked incessantly a journalist on duty had made about whether or not a criminal through a nicely weighted never "piscinazo", to which he responded, without pity, in a near-perfect English, "Look asshole, I told you already that I have not pulled ... I can be a jerk, a bad player, a good player, I may be a bastard, but I am not a liar. Now if you got used to being lied to, that's not my problem. Who the hell knows, maybe your wife is lying and he fucks the neighbor, and you will not care, but that's not my problem, dammit. As I once again ask the same bullshit I'm leaving now. " When enough simply not, a simple denial, Karpin data provided a series of unnecessary attachments that made his press conferences more attractive to some mortals. Conferences, moreover, there were few, given as a captain of Celta Vigo in those golden years when the English league is not yet filled middling players.
response to the note transcribed above, it is true that Karpin was never a regular at the press. After 10 years in Spain, playing good teams like Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo, English reached a sufficient standard to send to hell a journalist who had between his eyebrows. Moreover, it showed a totally discriminatory against certain media. So, I remember another occasion when, after talking Miguel Angel Lotina, head coach of Celtic in those years, played the word Karpin. Without any questions asked, Karpin appears with another one of those that make it memorable to this day: "You ... yes you .... The denim ... you do not talk, eh. (Addressing the rest) I do not speak a fucking word as not to draw this to the street. (Going back to the journalist concerned) do not like writing dirty tricks on me? Now I make you a bitch. I have not fought anybody, you bastard, and that you know "(in response to a note he had been published by the daily Sport claimed that earlier that Karpin had been twisted to blows during a training session with the former English and selected Brazilian-Catania).
professional debut in the Fakel Voronezh in 1987, the third division table then Soviet (now Russian third division) and the newly formed Russian Team in 1991, despite being Estonian by birth, when integrated the ranks of the Spartak Moscow full of players then the break in major European leagues, namely: Dmitry Radchenko, Alexandr Mostovoi, Dmitry Popov and Robert Jarni Croatian, among other sacred figures.
In the field showed a temper enviable, worthy of emulation. Never was a lost ball, and despite being a flyer calling offensive, did not hesitate to lag and lock up with the eye. In San Sebastian, Vigo remains an idol, not only for his performances in the field, but by his way of being elsewhere. And now, the new life began, probably send him to ass more than a customer overuse. Sebastian Santamaria