Former CSKA and USSR national team football player Vladimir Ponomarev told that the former Army coach Leonid Slutsky I was lucky with the team, because at that time there was a strong selection of players who could play without a tactical setup.
Slutsky was the coach of CSKA from 2009 to 2016. With the team, the specialist won the Russian Championship three times, the Russian Cup and the Super Cup twice. Now the coaching staff of the Moscow team is headed by Vladimir Fedotov.
– There are a lot of injuries at CSKA now. There are no transfers except for Fayzullaev. If the management does not support Fedotov, will this be a fatal mistake in the fight for the championship?
– Whatever Fedotov asks for, they will give it to him. If they want to occupy good places, it is necessary. If there are no transfers, there are good young people. Fedotov let her in more than once. Young people are eager to fight, including Mukhin. If Zainutdinov leaves, nothing terrible will happen. He can close the player, but Bakhtier is not fit to play in a team that claims to be in first place. He is also dangerous in the penalty area, attacking headless players. He can always count on the 11 meters. And Fedotov takes a competent position, correctly leaves the young people at the base.
– You praise Fedotov. Can you compare him to Slutsky from the CSKA days?
– I don’t even want to remember Slutsky. Random man in football. He was lucky with the team, she played herself. There was no need to say anything. Named the composition – and everyone knows his stuff. He tried himself abroad, nothing worked for him and will not work. Now the same thing, it doesn’t work with any team. Sometimes coaches get lucky.
Of course, the role of the coach is important, he unites the team so that there are no quarrels. Fedotov knows how to do it. He benched Carrascal, although the player showed great promise. I thought he was a good football player. He beat the opponent well, interacted with partners, competently disposed of the ball. And then passed out. They wrote that he was the best dribbler, imagined a lot of himself. Who is the best dribbler? And here we go: I stopped training and charging myself.
– Is it possible to say that Fedotov is a head taller than Slutsky?
– Certainly. For two, I’m not afraid to say.
– Follow what Leonid Viktorovich is doing now?
– I’m not looking. I used to watch and watch. This is not the person who can make a team, – said Ponomarev “”.
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