Abdulkhaky Shapiyev will combine work of the director of DYuSSh with performances on a carpet.
The participant of Olympic Games in London, the bronze prize-winner of the World Cup-2010 Abdulkhaky Shapiyev since April started responsibilities as the director of sport school in native Gergebil. However he doesn't intend to finish career in sports, and the 29-year-old wrestler reported about it in conversation with the correspondent wrestdag.ru.
— Said that after the Olympic Games you decided to hang up bortsovka on a nail. Means, it were incorrect data?
— After London it wasn't valid any desire to act. There for me everything developed unsuccessfully, and the annoying that lot was quite good. I began to think of employment. To me offered a position of the director of gergebilsky DYuSSh. I started to work, but to give up wrestling it didn't turn out. Again pulled on a carpet, I resumed trainings and I decided to continue career.
— And work won't prevent you to train, go on competitions?
— No, I after all will train generally in Gergebil. Here and conditions normal are available and quite good sparring partners are. Certainly not to do without collecting. But our DYuSSh works in the same mode as comprehensive schools, and at us happen vacation during which I will be able to go without prejudice to work on collecting and competitions.
— In your DYuSSh prepare wrestlers?
— Not only, we still have volleyball, chess, national sports. But free-style wrestling nevertheless is the main discipline. In it at us are engaged about one hundred children. In the district there is one more DYuSSh, it was opened recently, and our school years by thirty. It is my native school, I in it was engaged in wrestling with fifth on the eleventh classes, and then moved to Khasavyurt where continued to train at Mahomed Guseynov and Gadzhi Rashidov.
— After you lived in the city, it wasn't difficult to come back to the village?
— Absolutely not. I have here parents, relatives, friends. I quite accept rural life, in Gergebil I feel better, than somewhere.
— Trainers of the national team of Kazakhstan know about your plans?
— I told them that I want to fight, and they supported me. Only this year I missed a lot of time, and I won't manage to get in the World Cup any more.
— But after all any starts are necessary to you to return to normal.
— While I will train to gather a form, and in the fall I plan to make a speech at kadyrovsky tournament in Grozny.
— And you should pass selection to return to the national team?
— Certainly. The structure of the national team will be formed following the results of the championship of Kazakhstan. There is couple of strong children in my weight to 74 kg which can compete with me. It be necessary to me stronger them and to win first place, and only in this case I can count on a place in the national team.
Timur RASULOV