Generation Game's Over for Smertin

Daily Mail (March 03, 2006)

Author: Duncan Castles

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SMERTINS like to run. There is Alexey, Russia's perpetual motion captain, sprinting towards the changing rooms after training as his Charlton Athletic team-mates stroll.

There is Gennadiy, his 67-year-old 'football addict' father, slipping into his trainers for a seriously subzero trot through the Siberian snow. And now there is Vladislav, seven-year-old son and occasional training partner of the most famous member of the family.

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Generation Game's Over for Smertin

'Running's a habit, you know,' says Alexey. 'Sometimes when we have a day off I go to a park just to warm up and to jog a little bit with my son.

'He does the same because he looks like me. He's another Smertin! New generation, b...

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