Russian football has suffered a bereavement. In the 62nd year, the beloved legendary football player and coach, winner of the USSR Cup, Igor Vasilyevich Gamula, died. “MK” together with his friends recalls what a wonderful person he was.
It is very hard to believe that Igor Vasilyevich Gamula is no longer with us. He devoted his whole life to football. More precisely, he was football itself. Sparkling, cheerful, optimistic. Sometimes rough and angry, but still very kind and humane.about:blank
“If you give me a lot, a lot of money, I know perfectly well how to dispose of it – I will give it to everyone,” he once said.
In gratitude for his dedication, football gave him everything in full. A rich playing career, an equally fulfilling and eventful career as a coach. Igor Vasilyevich brought up more than one generation of young football players, put his whole soul into them. There was no other way he could.
And he was never shy about telling the truth. Any of his public statements were immediately analyzed for quotes. “The moment I speak, it’s not that I can’t hear myself – I just don’t think it can be funny. And then you open the newspaper – and it becomes fun yourself. My superiors are ordering me: be quiet, be quiet. Okay, I answer. But how to be silent if it is carrying me? “, Gamula confessed.
Without Igor Vasilyevich, we are all a little orphaned.
“Well, how is that … Igor Vasilich … I can’t believe it, it’s just a shock! It can not be!!! Vasilich, we will miss you very much … ”, – wrote the head coach of the Russian national team Valery Karpin on his Instagram, having worked as the head coach of Rostov for four years.
Friends of Igor Vasilyevich find it difficult to choose words, this loss has become such a great grief for them.
“We played together for two years at Rostselmash. He was a very technical player, often making non-standard decisions. He had lateral thinking. But most of all there was positiveness and love of life in him. Always with a smile. No matter how hard it was in his life, he knew how to take a blow.
Like everyone else, Igor had problems. Not even problems, but problems. But he was always a very bright person. Without envy.
Last week we called each other and agreed that he would come to visit. And so…
There were times when he lived with me, when we were still young footballers. So the football life passed … A fond memory “, – the famous football player, veteran of Rostov football, who played more than 120 matches for Rostselmash, coach-breeder of FC Rostov Ivan Lyakh shares with MK his memories of Igor Gamula.
“My friend Igor was a good-natured and cheerful person. It was always easy to communicate with him.
I happened to play both in the same team with him and against him in other teams. He was a very technical footballer. Very light football head. Thin passes, good pass. Smart footballer …
After completing our playing career, we worked together in the reserve team of the Rostov football club. Side by side. And many guys who now play in the team have passed through his hands. He put a lot of his soul into making them good footballers.
A very big loss for Russian football. It is a pity that such people leave. We will miss him, ”recalls Gamula, Soviet and Russian footballer and coach, winner of the Asian Champions Cup, who also devoted many years of his life to Rostov football, Gennady Stepushkin.
But Igor Vasilyevich himself spoke best of all about himself.
“You always have to remain human. Yourself. My life passes – or has passed, I don’t know how correctly – not in a straight line, but in sinusoids, mountain slopes and hills. But wherever he was – at the very bottom or at the top, he always remained the same. Igor Gamula ”.
“MK” expresses the deepest and most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Igor Vasilyevich.
