Before Andrei Vorontsevich told that one of the reasons he moved “Zenith” there was a great desire to work under the leadership of the head coach of the team Javier Pascual .
On Wednesday, the St. Petersburg club announced the signing of a contract with 36-year-old Vorontsevich. The agreement was concluded according to the “1+1” scheme. Last season, the basketball player played at PARIS NN and on loan at UNICS. As a member of the Kazan club, the basketball player this year became the silver medalist of the VTB United League. Last year, Vorontsevich won the United League with UNICS.
— How did the option to move to Zenit come about?
– That’s my agent’s job. He is negotiating about my career. We received offers from Zenit and UNICS – we considered them and chose the St. Petersburg club.
At the same time, I want to emphasize that I have a lot of warmth and respect for the time I spent at UNICS and in Nizhny Novgorod. With PARI NN, we finished second in the Russian Cup. After joining UNICS this year, me and my “junior research assistant” Mikhail Belenitsky (laughs) managed to win silver in the United League with the Kazan team this season. This is a worthy result. By the way, congratulations to Belenitsky on signing a contract with UNICS.
For three years, with the UNICS team, I managed to win medals of various denominations. This is an excellent result for the club, for the Republic of Tatarstan. They love basketball there. They also like it in Nizhny. So thank you everyone for the season and your support.
And new challenges await us. For me, as a player who wants to develop, despite the years, it is very good to have had the opportunity to work with such an eminent and successful coach as Javier Pascual. He knows how to win, he has done it several times. So look forward to new victories!
— Is your goal to become champion with Zenit in the new season?
“As I like to say, a bad soldier is one who doesn’t dream of becoming a general.” “Zenith” is a club that always sets itself the goal of winning and winning the championship. And he has already won the United League. I will do my best to help my new team succeed.
— Why was UNICS refused? You do not agree ?
– Well, we have to move on. I made this decision. Thanks to UNICS, I am very grateful to the club, Evgeniy Borisovich Bogachev and Velimir Perasovich. See you soon. I wouldn’t say we disagreed. We understood each other. I have all the respect UNICS and the club have for me. I am grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to become the champion of the VTB United League. And we successfully fought in the Euroleague. We could have reached the Euroleague playoffs if our clubs had not been suspended from the tournament.
Many thanks to Sergei Panov and Zoran Lukic, with whom I worked in Nizhny Novgorod. In general, there is something to remember. But life goes on as usual and I decided to take the opportunity to become part of Zenit and work under the guidance of a great specialist like Pascual,” Vorontsevich told .
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