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Vasily Utkin is a sports commentator, journalist, showman, actor, TV presenter of the “Football Club” and “Big Question” programs. Known for shocking behavior, often beyond ethical boundaries, and offensive statements. These remarks were made to the players, coaches and even the President of Belarus. Utkin is an innovator on Russian sports television and a top-rated television commentator. The author of the Radio Utkin blog on the Sports.ru portal is known for his liberal views.

Childhood and youth Vasily Utkin was born on March 6, 1972 in Balashikha. Second child in the family older sister

name is Anna. Utkin’s parents are representatives of the Moscow region intelligentsia. Father is a physicist, mother is a doctor, grandfather is a teacher.

Vasily Utkin in his youth His father’s genes were not passed on to Vasily; physics was difficult for him at school. Teachers gave C grades only out of respect for my father’s profession. At home, the boy had to listen to the admonitions of his parents. Vasily Utkin did not play football, like most boys, but was interested in languages ​​and literature. Since childhood, he had mastered diction, competent speech

, the teachers admired the boy’s erudition. Utkin followed in his grandfather’s footsteps and after school entered the Moscow Pedagogical University. I was going to become a Russian language teacher and work at a school, but it didn’t work out. I studied at the university during the period of perestroika, when the country and priorities were rapidly changing. Utkin studied for 4 years, and left the 5th year without passing the last exam and without preparing thesis

. The journalist today cannot explain the reason for this action.

Career

Vasily Utkin’s career began in 1992 with an offer to become editor of the Politburo program. The author of the program, Alexander Politkovsky, the founder of VID, managed to assemble a professional team. After 2 years the program was closed.

After admitting to taking prohibited drugs, Utkin wrote an article on Sports.ru in which he expressed the opinion in an allegorical manner that the athlete knew that she was taking doping.

A year later, in the same manner, Utkin spoke about doping in relation to a Russian heavyweight who did not pass the test just before the fight for the interim WBS championship belt. The journalist accused the boxer's promoter Andrei Ryabinsky of unprofessionalism. According to Utkin, such incidents could not happen to a professional promoter investing money in a boxer.

It is known that the candidacy of the current coach of the Russian national football team, who prepared the team for the 2018 home World Cup, caused a mixed reaction from Vasily Utkin. Once, paying tribute to Cherchesov’s career as a strong goalkeeper, Utkin called Cherchesov the coach greatly overrated. After a number of unsuccessful and unimpressive matches of the Russian national team during preparation for the world championship

To the government, Utkin called on Stanislav Salamovich to either publicly explain what the coach is seeking from the players and the team, or to resign.

Birtman - "Shit Man"

In the fall of 2016, the journalist starred in the video “Man-Shit” by the fictional performer Zinovy ​​Birtman. Utkin did not leave his profession as a TV commentator: since March 2016 he has been working on the Eurosport TV channel. Since 2017, he has been collaborating with the RBC channel and hosting the “Sports with Vasily Utkin” program. He is the author of a popular statement about the two best football players of our time:

“Ronaldo is a cyborg, and Messi is a bow-legged little guy.”

At the same time, Utkin headed the amateur football club “Egrisi”, playing in the North-Eastern League of the Moscow LFL.

Personal life

In his youth, Vasily Utkin became seriously interested in a girl named Natalya. The wedding took place. The journalist's wife was the daughter of a military man and worked as a model. Due to ensuing disagreements, the couple broke up. The couple divorced quickly, as they had not yet had time to have children.

In 2003, the journalist had a second chance to arrange his personal life. On the set of “School of Scandal,” he met a journalist. The couple began a relationship, but not for long. They broke up not on Vasily’s initiative. In an interview, the sports journalist said that he was painfully worried about the breakup.

Vasily Utkin and Natalya Pakueva /

Vasily Vyacheslavovich Utkin is a sports television commentator and journalist, artist, radio and television presenter of the programs “Football Club”, “Big Question”, co-owner of the Internet resource Sports.ru.

He is known for provocative statements and assessments that go far beyond the limits acceptable in a civilized society and possible from an ethical point of view. In particular, his offensive statements about football players Marat Izmailov, Roman Pavlyuchenko, and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko were published in the media. Regarding the latter, for example, on Sports.ru, Utkin allowed himself to announce that to raise his spirits he would like to dip his “head in the toilet.”

Childhood of Vasily Utkin

The flamboyant showman was born on March 6, 1972 in Balashikha into an intelligent family that already had a daughter, Anna. His father dedicated his life scientific research in the field of physics, mother - the noble profession of a doctor, and grandfather - the no less important work of a teacher.

After graduating from school, the future commentator entered the philological faculty of Moscow Pedagogical University. However higher education he did not receive it, because in the fourth year, without passing the exam, he dropped out.

The beginning of Vasily Utkin’s career

Utkin began his successful career in the media industry in 1992 as an editor at Politburo, author's program one of the founders of the VID television company, Alexander Politkovsky. Working in a team of true professionals, in the center of advanced thought and on a discussion platform where the most actual problems society, became a wonderful start and an excellent school for him. In 1993, after the “October uprising” in Russia, the project was closed.

Since 1994, Utkin moved from the VID company to NTV and for five years was the host of the weekly sports television program Football Club. He presented reviews of matches, interviews, conversations with invited guests.

Utkin conducted his first report during the match “Dynamo” (Tbilisi) - “Torpedo” (Moscow) in 1994. Subsequently, his work was accompanied by frequent conflicts with FC Spartak, including an incident that occurred in 1997. After a critical story about head coach Oleg Romantsev, where he questioned his professionalism, the club’s players completely ignored the program, stopped giving interviews to the NTV channel, and insistently asked Utkin not to comment on games with their participation.

Commentator Vasily Utkin: favorites

Two years later the project was closed. Among the versions of the reasons for what happened were the low rating, the presenter’s fatigue, the reconstruction of the broadcast network, and the intrigues of Savik Shuster, who created his own sports program “Third Time.” Be that as it may, the program began to air again only in 2000 (simultaneously with the mentioned Shuster project).

The flourishing career of Vasily Utkin

When the journalist was the sports editor of the tabloid Gazeta in the early 2000s, he was attacked. They stabbed him in the back when he was walking to work in the morning. A young man ran into him from behind and punched the journalist twice in the back, as it seemed to Vasily. He continued on his way to work, although a few houses later he was stopped by a security guard who pointed out the screwdriver in his back and the blood. The commentator entered the Sklifosovsky Institute, where he received medical care. No important organs were damaged; the screwdriver only pierced the muscles. The criminal was never found.

During the same time period, Vasily commented on the display of world and European Championships, and was a correspondent for the publications “Soviet Sport” and PROsport. In 2004 and 2005, he was awarded the TEFI television award (analogous to the Emmy) in the category of the best commentator.

Developing new areas of activity, the journalist also began hosting entertainment programs, including the television project “Wall to Wall” on Channel One, the music program “Earth-Air” on TV-6, and the reality show “Hunger” on NTV.

Vasily Utkin tells a joke

The reporter continued to act as the anchor " Football club", it was no longer released constantly, but only after games in the UEFA Champions League tournaments. In 2006, NTV management decided not to renew the contract for showing matches with this organization, and the program was closed again.

The following year, the TV commentator further expanded the scope of his abilities. He played the role of a candidate for the post of governor in the comedy film “Election Day”, based on the play of the same name by the “Quartet I” theater, on the stage of which earlier, in 2003, he played this character, participated in the television game “What? Where? When?”, was a member of the jury of the KVN Major League.

In 2010, Vasily again performed in an acting role. He starred in the comedy “What Men Talk About,” which contains subtle humor and smart thoughts with philosophical overtones about Russian reality. In September of the same year, Utkin became editor-in-chief of NTV Plus sports channels.

Personal life of Vasily Utkin

Vasily Utkin is not married and has no children. In 2003, on the TV show “School of Scandal,” he met an amazing girl, whom he later wanted to marry. However, their relationship did not last long; soon, on her initiative, they broke up.

Vasily noted in an interview that he worried about this for a long time. He stopped suffering after the thieves who robbed his apartment stole his baptismal cross. The consequence of this, according to Vasily, was allegedly that he lost negative emotions, and a new life began.

Under interesting circumstances, Utkin acquired his own housing. He won the missing part of the money to buy an apartment in one night in a casino (more than 30 thousand dollars).

The journalist has a cat Rodion and a very smart and dexterous raccoon without a nickname. According to the presenter, it was not possible to accustom him to any name.

Vasily Utkin today

In 2013, the journalist was a co-host in the television project on STS “History of Russian Humor”, the heroes of which were Evgeny Petrosyan, Gennady Khazanov, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Efim Shifrin, Vladimir Vinokur and others, and also hosted the “Ankle Show” on the “Our Football” TV channel "together with Anton Orech and Mikhail Shats.

Vasily Utkin and Viktor Gusev in “Evening Urgant” comment on car parking

In 2014, it was assumed that Utkin would report from the opening of the Games in Sochi and comment on a number of competitions at the Olympics, but the implementation of these plans was prevented by his health; after surgery, his voice temporarily disappeared. The showman was able to return to work only in March, when filming of the humorous intellectual program “The Big Question” began on STS. He acts as a presenter and, at his own discretion, evaluates the participants' answers.

The Russian media actively discussed the scandal that broke out between Utkin and Tina Kandelaki, general producer of the new sports channel Match TV in the fall of 2015. The commentator believes that working under her leadership on a national sports television channel would be a betrayal of the profession.

In the modern technological and information world, journalism has taken one of the most important places among other professions. It requires the highest skill from observers in combination with relevant personal qualities, having a serious impact on the formation of viewers, listeners, and readers’ ideas about existing realities. Anna Dmitrieva, Boris Mayorov, Vladimir Maslachenko, whom he considers outstanding masters and his teachers, helped Utkin achieve the required level of professionalism. Vasily calls sports commentary on television a unique genre.

Sport

For example, the president of the ski federation instructs the Russian team to resist Dmitry in every possible way. Why? Is this even legal?

"There will be no interview"

Scandal involving Dmitry Guberniev and the Russian cross-country skiing team is growing and multiplying. Influential people from Russian skiers they were really interested in the possibility of removing the commentator from broadcasting the World Championships in Seefeld. In their opinion, Guberniev is the main problem, because of which the result of our boys and girls at the world championship may be lower than expected.

Head of the Russian Ski Federation Elena Vyalbe V Once again did not miss the chance to pinch Guberniev, answering questions from fans on Instagram. Here are some of Vyalbe’s bright phrases.

“We won’t have many interviews like with biathletes. We will resist in every possible way in the interview with Dmitry Guberniev, I see and understand it myself. Unfortunately, he is now more of a showman and not a sports commentator, but he was one just recently. We’ll try to protect him from the endless interviews of our skiers.” The president of the federation (who is supported by the state) openly says that he is ready to prohibit his athletes from communicating with the main (in fact, this is the case) commentator on the main sports channel (also, in fact, a state channel) of the country.

Is this even legal?

And then, if the skiers are not averse to choosing the right commentator, then perhaps the commentator will be able to determine the composition of the Russian team for at least one relay race?

Guberniev, as always, responded quickly and said that he actually works as a commentator, not a correspondent, and rarely interviews athletes. And he suggested that Vyalbe instead protect the skiers not from him, but from “stupidity and oblivion.” Rough, with irony, but true in content.

“It’s clear to Kose that the success of broadcasts is Guberniev”

A colleague came to the commentator’s defense Vasily Utkin. Unexpected collaboration, isn't it? In terms of scale and popularity, both figures are quite comparable and, to some extent, are already legendary for Russian television. The fact that they were not seen in close friendship says something. Utkin came out in support of his colleague precisely as a principled journalist.

“The guys, no matter what they are - nice, kind, honest, pure - absolutely do not care how many people watch their championship. They are not in Sweden, not in Norway, not in the States, where the athlete is obliged to look for a sponsor himself and create publicity for him. We have everything. And give them a commentator too. Meanwhile, it is clear to the goat that the success of ski broadcasts is Goober. Even Tina Kandelaki understands this, after all. So, athletes. Discuss lubrication. And run for medals. Television is not your business."

By the way, Kandelaki also managed to express all possible support for Guberniev. Kandelaki and Utkin agreed that this is something you don’t see often. Naturally, there was no talk of any removal of the commentator from the trip to the World Cup on the part of the TV channel.

“What if it’s all PR?”

There is still a lot of time before the World Cup, but interest in it has already been peaked. Friends and acquaintances began asking me about skis, who had never been interested, let alone cross-country skiing, but in general sports. The thought even arose, what if this is all a planned campaign to promote the world championship? It's nonsense, of course, but every joke has its share...

But really, Guberniev did not have time to take a single interview, did not have time to delve into any dirty laundry, and the hype around skiing was created such that even biathlon could envy. And even a show Andrey Malakhov. There is no doubt that the World Cup broadcast ratings will break all records. Admit it, you are also interested in how it will all end?

Back in home country, scrolling through the Internet on my phone on the way from Domodedovo, I felt at home ahead of time. It wasn’t even necessary to open the door with a key for this nagging sensation. After all, what makes our country ours? There’s a lot of things missing here and a lot of things are wrong, but one thing that can’t be taken away from us is that it’s never boring here.

Roman Shirokov with his Twitter is okay. But the fact that fans are planning to sue him, oh - to the Ethics Committee... Well, it’s an extravaganza. Swearing with words more recent than inventive is in the tradition and honor of fans throughout the country. They themselves call it “criticism” and “controversy”; not all, of course, but many - and the rest calmly watch this in the vastness of their own guest rooms.

Chants and songs should also sooner or later form a separate volume in the anthology of Russian obscenities, when, God willing, it will be written to the end.

And then people were named pigs. Well, how can we manage without a multi-headed meeting? Alu Alkhanova? Who, if not this meeting, will be able to prevent this unbridled rudeness?..

I have always been amazed at how seemingly normal people perceive public people. It’s simply amazing what percentage of normal people think that they are owed something for this publicity. Karpin met with the fans, not with a microphone in a specially hired hall, but after a miserably lost game on the way from the locker room to the car, and used, no, just think, the words “yopt” and “fucking.” Outrageous! Children are all around!! Although this, of course, is a big question for parents, if suddenly they are so worried about their children - why take them to a meeting with a coach walking from the locker room to the car after a 1:5 defeat.

Semak cut out a table with " Spartak" on last place. Bastard! Although the vacuum cleaner would have had the imagination to understand that it was a joke. Now Shirokov, completely privately, in his own free time, addressed the pigs on his own Twitter.

That is, in general, in order to be offended by this, you first had to independently attribute this appeal to your own account. On one's own.

And from the words that the fans " Spartak"addressed over the past at least six months to Shirokov in particular and Zenit in general, you can create a painted fence the length from Moscow to St. Petersburg, with a ring around the city and a return to Tver. In general, Atlantic Ocean I was offended by the rain because, such an abomination, it wet him.

As you understand perfectly well, the words " Spartacus", "Zenit" and "Shirokov" are here only because you can’t erase a word from the song. In general, there could be any names.

You understand me correctly, I do not think that Shirokov is right, or that this should be made a good tradition. I am deeply convinced that Roman, God grant him to live two hundred years or more, is simply obliged to bequeath his brain to scientists for research, because his brain, of course, is unique. But this is a story about something else.

Shirokov is the only football player today who, being one of the leading players in the country, communicates publicly and openly. It is not clear (at least until future brain research) what prompted him to do this; but there are no others. I follow Roman’s posts on Twitter for the only reason: this dwarf media clearly shows how little our footballers actually have in common with real life. Actually, this has almost always been the case. But how little.

Why did he write about pigs? Yes, because he wrote that he believed that along with the game, something immediately became clear to everyone, and now they all (that magical collective “they”!) will shut up. The person didn’t know that no one would ever shut up on the Internet, but that fighting would just start. Only now Roman has a real idea about this! Maybe now he'll tell someone.

I also thought that Roman had decided on his future after his career ended. And by the method of exclusion. Agree - after all his numerous revelations, there is unlikely to be such an eccentric rich man who would entrust him with coaching work. And it’s clear from his mentality that it’s none of his business. Working with kids? So when this hypothetical time comes, those who are now marrying off Roman pearls will have children. Other people's children to this young man You can still practice, well, just for fun. But so that our...