Alexei Smertin considers himself the best player in team
Alexei Smertin defended at Barnaul State Pedagogical University diploma and was rated "good."
Thesis captain of the Russian national football team - "Evaluation of competitive activity of players" in his work, he analyzed the game of the Russian team at the qualifying tournament, World Cup final which is being held in Germany - playing in the match with Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Italy (which was played a friendly match), and Portugal, where Russia lost with a score 1:7
A. Smertin studied the moments of the game, which led to the creation of scoring chances, said graduate student supervisor, Head of the sports department of physical culture BSPU Andrey Dolgov, informs "Interfax".
An analysis of the captain found that the activity rate among Russian forwards Alexander Kerzhakov and D. Sychev almost identical, but Sychev wrong more often. The largest number of errors found in midfielder Vladimir Bystrov (62% of marriages in the tactical and technical operations).
The most effective and reliable player Alexei Smertin described himself, as he, according to analysis, allowed only 18% of marriage.
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