Beginner “Zenith” defender Alexander Shcherbenev In a conversation with , he compared his feelings of being in the St. Petersburg club with his time in the first team of Lokomotiv-Kuban at the age of 18.
Shcherbenev joined Zenit this summer. The basketball player graduated from Lokomotiv-Kuban, with which he became a silver medalist of the VTB United League in 2023.
“I was very well received at Zenit. I started working with pleasure after returning from the national team. It was interesting to get to know Pascual’s system: after all, the coach is a very eminent coach. Everything is fine. I knew many players from the team before. Everyone was as positive as possible, the guys helped me and gave me advice, so there were no problems joining the team. The adaptation went unnoticed.
— What would you remember about Pascual’s training?
— Each coach conducts training in his own way. Everyone has his own principles and Pascual, of course, has his own philosophy. I was at Lokomotiv for a long time, and now, after changing clubs, many things are new to me, even the organizational aspects, everything is interesting. And now I have the same feelings as when I joined the Lokomotiv first team at the age of 18: everything is different, everything is for the first time, everything is very interesting. And the head starts working again. It is still useful to change the situation sometimes. Very excited about the season.
— Lokomotiv president and head coach Andrei Vedishchev said that the Krasnodar team started negotiations with you, but you and your agent have other plans. How would you comment?
— I think there is no point in lying to Andrei Vladimirovich. We really talked with Lokomotiv, but I decided for myself that I needed to change the situation, try myself in another team, so I decided to move to Zenit.
— What will Zenit compete for in the new season?
– Let’s see. In any case, the goal is the same: victory in the United League. Now it will be interesting to understand your strengths at this stage of the pre-season tournaments. But overall, we have a very good, ambitious team. I think everything is within our power, “Shcherbenev told .
The new United League season begins on September 21.
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Source : MatchTV
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