“Arsenal” was left without a head coach: Kononov again left the Tula club

Athletistic/ Football. Arsenal have lost their head coach. Oleg Kononov left the team. This was announced by the head of the Tula club, Guram Adzhoev.

“Yes, we have decided to part ways with Oleg Kononov. He is leaving Arsenal Tula. It is a mutual decision and desire. We are parting ways shaking hands. We will announce the name of the new head coach in the next few days, the team will work under a new head coach,” Adjoev said.

Kononov, 56, will take over the reins of Arsenal in the summer of 2022. Under his leadership, the Tula side have played 20 matches during the current Premier League season, in which they have won nine and drew five times. With 32 points, Arsenal are sixth in the standings.

“Oleg Kononov is not a completely deep coach. It seems to me that he had some kind of push: luck or it came, but now it does not work. It seems that he is just a middle-level trainer – in critical situations it is not possible to work everywhere. Remember Krasnodar “, where there were comfortable and wonderful conditions – it worked there.

I think when Arsenal are tasked with getting back in the RPL, and you are eight or nine points behind the leaders, something has to change. The Tula team, in terms of potential, should be among the four teams applying for RPL tickets. But it turns out that after half the championship they have a small, but backlog. And this, apparently, does not correspond to the plans of the management. Everything is reasonable.

Should we expect Kononov in RPL in the near future? I don’t know a single RPL team that he could lift higher than they are now,” said Andrey Chervichenko, former Spartak Moscow chairman.

“I can’t say why Kononov was fired from Arsenal after six months. He left the club, what next? Millions of people are losing their jobs – it’s a common phenomenon. He left and left.

Of course, I regret having lost my job. Maybe it will be even better for him: he will find another team for himself, where everything will be different,” said Spartak Moscow veteran Anzor Kavazashvili.

“Kononov has already changed many teams, which is very bad and speaks of his instability. It is not yet clear where he got the result. It seems that he has worked a lot, but there are not many result”, said the ex-administrator. of Spartak Moscow Alexander Hadzhi.

Kononov began to train in Minsk “Torpedo”. He was an assistant coach of Anatoly Yurevich, Belarusian specialists worked together at Lokomotiv Minsk and in the second half of the 2003/04 season at Metallurg Zaporozhye.

From 2005 to 2008 he was in charge of the youth academy of “Sheriff” Tiraspol and was one of the coaches of the team. During this time, “Sheriff” won the championship of Moldova 4 times in a row. He also won the Cup and the Super Cup of Moldova.

At the end of May 2008, Oleg Kononov signed an agreement with the Ukrainian club “Karpaty” Lviv. In this position, he replaced Valery Yaremchenko.

In the 2009/10 season, he finished fifth in the European Premier League with the club. In the 2010/11 season, Kononov led the Lviv team to European competition for the second time. On October 18, 2011, the specialist left the club. As the head coach of Karpaty, he played 103 matches in the Ukrainian championship. Under Kononov, the team won 36 games, drew 34 and lost 33 times (goal difference 128-126).

January 20, 2012 was appointed general director of the club “Sevastopol”. On June 12, 2012, he was appointed head coach of the club which was relegated to the Ukrainian Premier League. Under his leadership, the team reached the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup, where they lost to Shakhtar Donetsk (2:4).

On August 11, 2013, Kononov took over as head coach of the Krasnodar club, signing a three-year deal. In mid-November Kononov received Russian citizenship. In the first season, under Kononov, Krasnodar reached the European Cup and the Russian Cup final for the first time in history, where they lost to Rostov, and a year later the club took third place in the Premier League, having won the first medals in its history. On September 13, 2016, we learned of Kononov’s departure.

On May 22, 2017, he took over as head coach of Akhmat, the contract was signed for 3 years. On October 30, after the 15th round match, he resigned over the team’s latest results. “Akhmat” under Kononov flew out of the Russian Cup in 1/16 against “Yenisei” from Krasnoyarsk (0:3).

On June 1, 2018, he was appointed as the head coach of Arsenal Tula, the contract was for one year. On November 12, 2018, he left the club.

On November 12, 2018, Kononov was appointed head coach of Spartak Moscow. Together with Kononov, the team was joined by: Sergey Kuznetsov, Daniel Tudor, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Santiago Suarez, Stergios Fotopulos, who had previously been at the headquarters of Arsenal Tula, as well as Ramil Sharipov, who had previously been at the headquarters by Massimo Carrera.

On September 29, 2019, immediately after the lost game against Orenburg, Kononov resigned and this was accepted by the Spartak board.

On February 5, 2020, he became the head coach of Riga, which plays in the Latvian championship. Along with him, goalkeeping coach Daniel Tudor, who previously worked with Kononov at Krasnodar, Akhmat, Arsenal and Spartak, joined the club. On November 11, 2020, he left Riga for personal reasons beyond Kononov’s control.

On June 11, 2022, he led Arsenal from Tula for the second time, in which he worked at the start of the 2018/19 season. On 11 January 2023, Arsenal Tula chief Guram Adzhoev announced that Kononov was leaving the club’s head coaching position by mutual decision and desire. Under his leadership, the team played 20 Premier League matches, in which they won nine and drew five times, finishing sixth in the table.