Vasily Vyacheslavovich Utkin - one of the most famous football commentators in Russia. The peak of its popularity falls on the zero years. Unlike most of his colleagues, he never picks up words and says what he thinks. Because of this, he is constantly at the center of high-profile scandals.
Biography
The future commentator of football battles in Balashikha was born on March 6, 1972 in an intelligent family. His mother worked as a doctor, and his father was a scientist. From most of the boys, Vasily was distinguished by indifference to football and a thirst for reading, he loved literature and foreign languages. Nevertheless, he did not work out with studies, in particular there were big problems with physics, only thanks to his father was he content with triples.
After school, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, who had worked as a teacher all his life. Vasily entered the Moscow Pedagogical University and had plans to become a teacher. After a decent 4 years at the university, Utkin suddenly decided to quit his studies. Vasily himself still does not know why he did so then.
Career
Thanks to his knowledge of foreign languages, well-read and clearly defined diction, Vasily had every chance to get on television. So it happened - in 1992, Alexander Politkovsky, the creator of the Politburo TV show, drew attention to a talented guy, he invited Vasily Utkin to work as the editor of the program. Despite the fact that Politkovsky put together a team of real experts, the project lasted only a couple of years and was closed.
The next step in the career of Vasily Utkin was the popular program on NTV with a good rating - “Football Club”. As the host of the program, Vasily attacked the invited guests with devastating criticism, casting doubt on their professional and sports data. As a result, most of the coaches and players of that time simply stopped coming to the program. A sharp decline in interest in the project led to the fact that it was closed. The program was again aired only in 2000.
In 2001, a football commentator nearly died, an unknown assailant attacked him from behind and stabbed him two times, but fortunately the injuries were not serious.
In the middle of the 2000s, Vasily tried himself in other projects and was the host of the Hunger and the wall-to-wall entertainment shows, while remaining the host of the Football Club. During his long career on television, he also starred in several films, the most famous of which is Election Day.
Dramatic changes in the professional life of Vasily Utkin occurred in 2015. Then a new media project, Match TV, was created. NTV + channels, which Vasily directed, were transferred to Tina Kandelaki, Utkin reacted extremely negatively to such changes and was deprived of the opportunity to continue working on the channel. In his opinion, working under the supervision of a person who does not understand anything in sport is a real betrayal of the profession of a sports journalist.
In 2018, before the start of the World Cup, which was held in Russia, Vasily was invited to comment on the matches on the first channel. However, after several broadcasts, Vasily Utkin, without commenting on his decision, stopped working. After leaving TV, he started his own YouTube channel, which, against the background of the strange departure of the famous commentator from the first channel, quickly gained popularity and gained subscribers.
