Former coach “Lokomotiv” Yuri Semin Talk about Oleg Romantsev .
On Thursday, January 4, Romantsev celebrates his 70th birthday.
— Our first acquaintance took place when we were footballers. We were probably never close friends, but we knew each other very well and always respected each other. When in the early 2000s Lokomotiv began to become its real competitor to Spartak, this respect did not disappear, but, on the contrary, continued to grow.
As a coach, he was ahead of his time: there is a direction or football system of Josep Guardiola, but the red and white under the leadership of Romantsev already in those years played short passes and showed combined football . “I am a little older than my colleague, but it was interesting for me to learn something new and watch how a team that always wins plays,” RT Semin quotes.
Romantsev was the head coach of Spartak from 1989 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2003. Under his leadership, the Moscow club became the champion of the USSR (1989) and the winner of the USSR Cup (1992), having received for eternal storage, won the Russian Championship eight times (1992-1994, 1997-2001), and the Russian Cup three times (1994, 1998, 2003). Romantsev is the most successful coach in the history of Russian football championships, recognized eight times as Coach of the Year according to the Russian Football Union (1993-1995, 1997-2001).
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Source : MatchTV
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