Leonid Slutsky became famous as the head coach of the football club CSKA and the Russian national football team. He has been fond of this sport all his life and currently also comments on live broadcasts of football matches.
Biography
Leonid Slutsky was born in Volgograd in 1971. Six years later, the boy’s father died of illness, and Mom began to raise Len. This greatly influenced him: his father was actively involved in boxing, and Leonid also wanted to connect his life with sports. After school, he decided to enter the Volgograd Institute of Physical Culture. His article was football, and the young man dreamed of a goalkeeper career, starting to play for the youth football team Zvezda.
Fate decreed otherwise: once Leonid had to climb a tree to get a neighbor's cat, but he broke and got a serious knee injury. This put an end to his football career. The young man successfully graduated from the institute and began to conduct coaching activities. In 1993, at the age of 22, he led the Olimpia children's team, raising real football players out of them. In 1999, Olimpia managed to win the Cup of Russia and enter the second division.
Two years later, Slutsky moved to work in the Uralan team from Elista, but she was soon dissolved and Leonid was quenched to train the second team of the Moscow club. At first he agreed, but relations with the team did not work out. The same thing happened with the Samara club “Wings of the Soviets”: Slutsky could not establish the necessary contact and decided to leave again of his own free will.
In 2009, Leonid Slutsky began to train professional FC CSKA. This became the crown of his career: in two years, “CSKA” entered the playoffs of the Champions League and became champions of Russia, bringing their coach the long-awaited trophy cup. In 2015, Slutsky volunteered to train the Russian team, but reserved the right to work with Moscow CSKA. Under his leadership, the players went to Euro 2016, but suffered several defeats and dropped out of the tournament. Slutsky immediately left this coaching post.
