Anatoly Banishev football player biography

Anatoly Banishevsky: The story of one devotion is a photo - a video, one of the greatest Azerbaijani football players Anatoly Banishevsky lived a short but very bright and rich life, during which he constantly proved his love for his native country.

Not different by neither approximate behavior nor a flexible temper, he, thanks to his remarkable talent, was able to fall in love with thousands of fans around the world. Banishevsky was born on February 23 in Baku, where his passion for football was born. The football player’s career developed rapidly - at the age of 15 he was in the team of the High League of the USSR Championship, at 16 he already played in the then, who had been rattled then, “Neftechi”, he was called up in the Union’s national team, and at 20 he became one of the most noticeable players at the World Cup.

The national team of the USSR, Nikolai Morozov, who had trained at that time, was intensively criticized for the choice of “some boy”-the youth and inexperience of Banishevsky embarrassed many. However, very soon the bathhouse, as he was nicknamed in a team, with his outstanding game, all claims from the outside came to naught. And the application, I must admit, was significant - the Bakunets became the first Soviet football player to score a goal not to anyone, but to the Brazilians, and even at their grandiose stadium - the legendary Maracan.

Then, in a friendly match, Banishevsky, successfully setting his head under the ball, scored a goal against the Seleeso goal almost from the middle of the field. While the numb stadium and the taken aback of the Brazilians, who had been led before, delved into what had happened, Vyacheslav Metrevli equalized the match ended with a draw, and a number of Brazilian newspapers, scored by Banishevsky, called the “naked decades”.

At the World Cup in England, Banishevsky shone. Anatoly, who became one of the best players in the world championship, was called by leading Russian and Ukrainian clubs, as well as a number of European teams, in particular the English, showed increased interest for young talent. The German company Adidas even offered him a contract for half a million dollars, but because of the Iron Curtain, neither participation in advertising promotions, nor the departure of a football player abroad seemed possible.

However, as Anatoly Andreevich himself admitted in one of the last interviews, the interest of both Russian and European teams was indifferent to him, since he never thought of leaving his native Neftechi. Starting his career in the camp of the flagship of Azerbaijani football, Banishevsky finished her there. They would not love me anywhere like in Baku, ”said the football player.

Banishevsky could not be called an exemplary athlete. On the contrary, he often violated the sports regime, escaped from training, did not follow the rules. But the young, talented and famous, he took possession of the hearts of the fans for many years, and his heightened sense of justice caused endless respect among others. Friends considered him their ambulance because the bathhouse never threw loved ones in trouble, and used his position in society exclusively for noble purposes.

Being proud and quick -tempered man, Banishevsky never asked anyone, even when circumstances were pushed into this in every possible way. In the year, when the USSR national team lost the Federal Republic of Germany in the final of the European Championship in Brussels, Soviet sports officials present at the stadium literally broke into the locker room of the team and began to hardly count the players for the loss.

The unrestrained football player could not endure what his team is called almost traitors to his homeland. The bathhouse is the only one who answered the tone of the angry functionary that if he is so annoyed by their game, then the next time he can go on the field himself to clearly show them how to play. Banishevsky was no longer called to the Banishevsky national team, but he did not begin to apologize for his insolence.

After the incident of the year, a voluntary but very painful departure from his native "Neftech", deprivation of the Banishevsky title of master of sports and persecution by football functionaries, followed. But even then he was given a chance, either to repent of those in power and to gain forgiveness with all the ensuing, or to leave the country and resume his career abroad. But pride did not allow him to bow to the people who insulted him, and the all -consuming devotion to his homeland was too strong so that he could play in a foreign land.

In OM, the bathhouse returned to Neftechi again, but the player’s physical condition no longer allowed him to be on the field for 90 minutes. But even in such, far from the best, he continued to score and bring tangible benefits to the team. Some time later, Anatoly tried himself in the coaching field. In the year, he headed Neftchi dear to his heart, but because of serious disagreements with the board he left the post after a couple of years.

Next was followed by an adventurous journey to distant Africa, where he headed the Burkina-Faso youth team and achieved good results with it. However, the difficult situation in the African country at that time, not only made it impossible to stay there, but also seriously shaken, and without that unimportant, Banishevsky’s health so that he had to return home.Health problems with a football player began quite early.

The development of pancreatitis was facilitated by the nervousness of the football player and his craving for feasts. Doctors have repeatedly warned that the exacerbations of this bouquet of diseases could be very life-threatening, but Anatoly, due to stubbornness and unwillingness to obey any rules, did not comply with the diet, prescribed by doctors. A trip to Africa greatly crushed Banishevsky’s health - an alien climate and unusual food did their “black” business.

In addition, there he overtook severe stress: in Burkina-Faso, before his eyes, right at the stadium, rebels who started another military coup, killed the president of the country. And in OM, after Banishevsky was returned to the title of Honored Master of Sports, he was in intensive care with a terrible diagnosis of diabetic coma. This was already the second attack, after which Anatoly was disturbed by memory and partially coordination of movements.

Diabetes and liver cirrhosis mercilessly tormented an outstanding athlete, who until the last did not want to recognize his powerlessness before numerous ailments. In OM, the premature organism of the great football player, refused to resist the diseases that pursuing him, and on the morning of December 10, at the age of 51, Anatoly Banishevsky died. Banishevsky’s relatives loved very much, although they admitted that his character was rather heavy.

The wife of the football player - Inna Banishevskaya talked about how Anatoly did not allow her to watch matches because he was deeply convinced that women were failing, loved to argue and angry if he had been stubbornly and stubbornly contradicted. But, being very kind by nature, he quickly cooled and tried to make amends in a roundabout way, since it was always difficult for him to apologize directly.

The granddaughter of Anatoly Andreyevich Lala Lazimova recalls his famous grandfather: “When my grandfather passed away, I was 10 years old, and at this age you already remembered everything, you understand everything, you understand everything. Tolik, as I jokingly called him, always created a friendly atmosphere around him, and we all warmed up in the rays of his attention. I always felt his love for me, although at first he was not at all delighted with the appearance of another girl in the family, because he was really waiting for her grandson, not his granddaughter.

He said: “Not a house, but a Babsky monastery! Some women! Where did I get, where did I get?! For the most part, all his love got only to me, since the brothers were very small then and little remembering. Well, of course, I often used his warm feelings for me. He was a very emotional person, and if he had started any disputes at home, then I could instantly stop it, saying a commanding voice-“Come on, Tolik!

He immediately smiled, replacing anger to mercy. My Tolik was not just a wonderful football player and a good coach, he was a wonderful grandfather, a loving husband and father. I really miss him ... My brothers and I honor his memory and are immensely proud that everyone knows him not only as an outstanding athlete, but also as a true patriot of Azerbaijan. ” Today, despite the fact that a lot of years have passed since the heyday of the career of Anatoly Andreevich, in our country he is still remembered, loved and respected.

The older generation leads the great player as an example to his children and grandchildren, and those, in turn, listing the famous players of the country, the first duty is the famous Banishevsky name for the whole USSR. The story of Anatoly Banishevsky is a rapid path to a bright career of a proud, honest, fair person and freedom -loving nature, which did not recognize the framework and restrictions.

This is a wonderful story of sincere devotion to football and homeland.