Advisor to the President of Kazan UNICS Stanislav Eremin shared his expectations for the new season of the VTB United League, and also talked about the transfer campaign of St. Petersburg “Zenith “
UNICS took seventh place in the United League Super Cup, which took place in Moscow in September.
– A little worrying. UNICS enters the season. The results of the friendly matches are somewhat alarming. Another thing is that we started last season the same way and ended it on a good note.
UNICS tried to retain the players who led the team to gold medals. This approach was largely successful, although not without difficulties. Today, the UNICS squad level is difficult to adequately assess: there were many injured players, many were recovering and were not in their best shape. Let’s wait. I think Kazan will not be much weaker than last year.
— Considering the fact that several important UNICS players have moved to Zenit, will meetings with St. Petersburg players now become more important?
— You know, there is such an aphorism: “It is not enough for a good actor to be praised. It is important that his opponents are also reprimanded.” In sport, this is implemented as follows: it is not enough to strengthen yourself well, you also have to destroy a little of what your opponent has. Zenit stole Vince Hunter, Georgy Zhbanov from us… I don’t think the main goal was to weaken the competitor, but not without this. As for the principles of the upcoming meetings, there are market laws: players who have become free agents have the right to make any decision,” Eremin said according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Last season, UNICS became the champion of the VTB United League, defeating the Krasnodar club Lokomotiv-Kuban in the final series.
In the first match of the new season, Kazan will play at home against Lokomotiv-Kuban on Saturday, the match will start at 14:00. The match will be broadcast live on .
Russian newspaper
Source : MatchTV
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