Athletistic / Football. Former Rostov and Russian national team midfielder Pavel Mamaev told what was cool about the head coach of the national team and the yellow-blues Valery Karpin.

“Karpin is the player I watched growing up. Him, Mostovoy, Shalimov and Alenichev. And I also heard a lot of good things about Valery Georgievich, so it was interesting to work with him to understand how good he is is good. say Karpin is really cool.

The cool thing about him is that he’s very open and direct. He does everything without malice. Karpin knows how to find an approach for each player – I encountered this for the first time in my career. Everyone respects him and fights for him. I even asked him more than once: “Georgich, how come you have good relations with everyone, everyone meets your requirements, there are no quarrels in the team? To this he replied to me that he himself did not know – it happens like that,” Mamaev is quoted in the Championship.

Valery Karpin currently holds the positions of head coach of Rostov and the Russian national team. He led Spartak twice and twice led the team to national championship silver medals.

Pavel Mamaev played in Rostov from fall 2019 to December 2021. He then spent six months in Khimki, after which, after being a free agent for about eight months, he announced his retirement.



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