Athletistic/Football. Paris Nizhny Novgorod head coach Sergei Yuran expressed his desire to work at Spartak. However, the specialist stressed that he would not enter into negotiations with the club as long as the current coach works there.

“Do you dream of managing Spartak? ‘Dream’ is not the right word. I played for this club, some of my best matches of my career were in the 1995 Champions League, when we won the six matches of the group stage. I worked with the great coach Oleg Romantsev and I had a lot of fun.

Of course, every former footballer wants to try his hand at the club where he played. Moreover, Spartak is not just a club, it is the flagship of our football, the most popular team in the country. Yes, it would be great to work here, and not just work, but win trophies. But this is not a dream, but an aspiration. However, the same can be said of other big clubs.

I played in Portugal and I can’t imagine Benfica or Porto facing a foreign coach without gaining experience. They could consider their local candidate, who does not yet have significant achievements, but only a proven foreign coach.

We, for example, in Lokomotiv had incomprehensible German coaches who did not achieve anything anywhere, and this was considered the norm. It’s understandable when people like Dick Advocaat, Luciano Spalletti, Roberto Mancini come. The coach’s results are always evaluated here. This is our specialty.

If I am invited to Spartak, will I start negotiations while Abaskal is in place? Absolutely not! I always said that I would only come after the previous coach was sorted and gone. There was a situation when I was not allowed to enter the Khimki base, even though the contract had not yet been terminated. But Dmitry Gunko had already arrived to chat with the team and was waiting for me to leave. Maybe he was still young and didn’t understand the nuances of coaching,” Yuran said, as quoted by Sport Express.

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