It’s well known that no one is born to be president. At least our hero was born quite an ordinary guy who really wanted to play football and under various circumstances did not make a football career. However, nothing prevented him from becoming president of the club “Impulse” – an amateur futsal team. Specially for Zhytomyr.Travel, Artur Shevchuk – a man who is in love with his business
“In my family, nobody has engaged in football and does not do it. This is just my initiative, because I am for a healthy lifestyle. My football career ended without having started, so I try to create the opportunity to play in a good football club for such simple guys as me. Well, more precisely not football, but futsal, but it’s no worse. It’s even better because players develop physically and technically. This kind of sport has a lot of advantages”
“My favorite footballer? This is a difficult question. (Smiles). But if you think radically, then perhaps Marco Reuse is the left-back midfielder of the national team of Germany and the Dortmund “Borussia. In order to become a good football player, iron discipline is needed, this is first. Secondly, love for football is absolutely necessary. And we still need love for hard work, because if there are no these bases, then nothing will happen at all”
“I have a hobby – I’m writing electronic music. Though at all there is not enough time, when I have a free hour or two, I sit down, I write music, and then I sell my compositions on different platforms. So I make money for Impulse and have been pulling him for five years. Both my parents and relatives say that I am doing nothing for myself, that I could buy a car or something else, but if you give people hope, you need to understand what responsibility you take for yourself. When I see how the guys are burning their eyes (so I burned up in my childhood), I can not just take and stop. This means taking away the opportunity to play in the club. This was never my childhood dream. I did not need the skills, there were no financial possibilities, I did not have the opportunity to get the guys to the team. Then it could be only a yard team, but not the one we have now”
“Our team does not have professional achievements in football yet, because we are not professionals but lovers. Of course, we plan to develop, and ahead of the Ukrainian amateur league. However, we have already made the first steps: in the yard championship we took the first place, we have a cup, medals and victory ”
“People are asking for a team, they want to play. Of course, we can not all, but we invite you to workout. Even if the guys do not play, they train, gain experience”
“Discipline is very necessary, we start with it. Players are selected not only on the physical characteristics, but also to suit the nature of the team. Because if the person is “not ours”, work does not work. We have a permanent staff, there is a morally formed team – we work. We are like a family. Our team even has a slogan: “One family is one team”. In the club it is: one by one. If anyone grieves, all fit”
“The main authority in the team is the coach. I am only the organizer, the president of the club, so I just bear the responsibility. And hence, authoritarianism is also needed here, in fact, not authoritarianism, but credibility, trust. Without trust, nothing will be done”
“This year, we took a more serious attitude to the leadership of the team. We have a coach, there is a press attache. We have documented that we do not exist “in the bird’s rights.” And the players – this is my main support. We do not count on the support of the state. You always have to rely only on yourself, and now you’re ready. When someone promises something, it’s worth looking forward to, but you do not really need to be certain. Many offered help, but somehow did not fit: I’m on leave, then people are changing their plans. Now I am satisfied with the state of things that are”
“In such a sport as futsal football, there is no final stop – there is always room to grow. Only ours in Zhytomyr have four championships, and the level of competitions in the first and second league is significantly different: more opportunities, other funding is required. In fact, we are ready. The higher league is even more responsible, and every step is all the more serious. I do not plan to earn this, I have a few other goals in my life, but everything is possible. Let’s see”
“In sports, there is also corruption, but it does not attract me at all. Now the country is in urgent need of changes that need to be started from ourselves”
“Even in such an amateur way, you can develop and go to the goal. It all depends on the level of the competition. Competitions take place under the auspices of the Futsal Association of Zhytomyr, but they do not provide the opportunity to receive sports titles such as “a candidate for a master of sports” or “master of sports”. We run ahead in advance: if the guys go at least in the semi-professional championships, you can get titles there. Perspective is”
“I am also interested in women’s football in the form of a futsal team, such thoughts spun. But so far I’m hesitating, because the question is in the gears. How to dial, how to train? And will it be effective? There is a good football team in Berdichev, but it is not a futsal yet. These questions are closer to the head of the Futsal Association of Zhytomyr, apparently. He is still doing more, but it seems to me that there are a lot of prospects in this direction. With proper funding, there is where to grow in the right conditions”
“There are only two good halls in Zhytomyr – Dynamo and FOC. At least one more hall, wherever to train, to conduct serious big competitions, even at the international level. Some intentions from the city authorities were, but in fact there is no room. At least it is good that though there are intentions. It did not happen now, then it will be”
“The task of each person is education. Not to be educated in football, you have to be educated in life in general. If I am a soccer player, this does not mean that we do not need to develop and acquire knowledge; this does not mean that you can be an oak in mathematics or biology. If we are talking about a particular specialization, a profession, then in his case, every person should be an ass. An agronomist, a mechanic, a driver – everyone must have knowledge in their profession. And footballer too. By the way, it is desirable to have a higher education to have both knowledge and profession”
“Under the exchange program from the Agroecological University, I was in Denmark and had the opportunity to observe how football is developing there. Words are difficult to describe – you need to see. Even in amateur football, everything is done perfectly, for people: a lawn is thrown up to a millimeter, not a hump, everything is perfect. At the stadium in the Danish town of Odense there is a professional team of “Obi Odense”, there is a huge stadium, a huge arena. But if you simply ask to beat the ball there, they will let you go. There are soccer stars, professionals, but every person can come after the match, pay a fixed amount (this is the rule of the stadium that has set the leadership) and play. How much everything to people do you understand? ”
“Many are surprised that I’m doing everything alone. And the parents also do not support me, in fact, I’m trampling it myself. Parents wanted me to be a translator. I was close to my mother’s dream, I even have certificates of knowledge of Polish, English, but I did not become an interpreter. I have my own head, and I decided not to do it. When the lesson is not in the soul, everything will be so that you will not be able to do that anyway. If through force to do, then it’s not natural, as if artificially created. And in his work one has to invest a soul ”
“Spirituality and material provision are always on the scales. If somewhere a distortion – it’s always bad. There must be a balance between that”
“For money, I have a philosophic look: it’s just paper and paint. Man is spending his strength, his time to “create” money, that is, giving somebody a common period of time. Human life is divided into certain periods – childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age, etc. Let’s try, in the form of mathematical equality, to look at the pursuit of funds, which we begin in a certain segment of our lives. The time spent on making money equals a certain period – the time of our life, for example, the period of maturity: while there is strength, health – we work. And I do not consider it logical that we spend time on time. You do not have to throw money, it’s just a piece of paper. Yes, without them it is difficult, but there are more important things, and always have to be a person”
“Of course, I could listen to my parents and not become what I am now. In any sphere, I would still have realized myself, now I study at the university, I will have the specialty “Agronomist – a gardener”. A person can do a lot of work, much to which it can lie soul, but still one day will come to the truth. Perhaps I would have listened to my parents, but from my childhood I had a different character – a leader, I built myself ”
“In order for the team” Impulse to develop, went for outgoing games, it is necessary to raise funds. I really want to, but, unfortunately, it is difficult for me to gather 20-30 thousand hryvnias for one trip so far. The way, accommodation, meals, the contribution to the tournament – all this is necessary, from this you will not go anywhere. If we could help someone, we would have gone more and probably would have shown a different result, but so far in the plans”
“I live in Zhytomyr for 18 years, and I’m not going to go anywhere. There was an opportunity to go to Kiev, but there will be players, team. I say that Zhytomyr is a “city of contrasts”: the day is good, the day is bad. But I love him, here’s every corner of your own, every street. Many people in Zhytomyr associate only with ice cream and socks, from which sometimes they cap, but we have many other budget-making enterprises, their own infrastructure. If you care more about ordinary people, nobody will go from here”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich
