former captain “Spartacus” six-time Russian champion Egor Titov in an interview with , he said that Alexander Panov while a player “Zenith” could not play Spartak combined football, which was confirmed during the training sessions of the Russian national team.
On Sunday, Spartak will host Zenit in the WORLD RPL fifth round match. At the end of his career, a student of Zenit, Panov began to attend home and away matches of the Red-Whites, and the former footballer also plays for veterans Spartak.
– It is known that Panov is an ardent fan of Spartak, but he has always played against them. Could he fit into your team?
– I will tell you a story. Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev called Panov to the national team. Naturally, the training process is the same as in Spartak – a 5 out of 5 square. It turns out that Spartak and Panov play there. We – Tikhonov, Alenichev, Tsylya (Ilya Tsymbalar – approximately) and I – begin to circle our famous lace. Sasha once lost the ball, the second. We made a point to him. He loses the ball again, stands in the middle, spits and says, “Yes, *****, I don’t know how to play your football.” (Laughs.)
Of course we laughed. But then it was like that, Sasha was not ready to play this Spartak football, because he needed space. And today he plays our one-touch football with us. And the veterans again give him a remark: “Sasha, stop playing Spartak football, make two touches, please.” (Laughter) So everything has its time. He rose to fame playing for Zenit, he is from St. Petersburg and hopefully has won the respect of St. Petersburg fans,” Titov told .
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The meeting between Spartak and Zenit will be broadcast live by the channel and the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru, the broadcast will start at 6:30 p.m. (Moscow time). The match will also be available on the MATCH PREMIER TV channel from 23:05 (Moscow time).
Source : MatchTV
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