Former head coach and president of Spartak Oleg Romantsev said that thanks to the former player of the “red and whites” Fyodor Cherenkov Millions of people started supporting the team.
The players, coaching staff and management of Spartak laid flowers at the grave of former Red-White midfielder Fyodor Cherenkov. The event dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the footballer’s birth takes place in Moscow, at the Troekurovskoye cemetery.
The ceremony was attended by former football player and club coach Oleg Romantsev, current players Nikita Chernov, Theo Bongonda, Alexander Maksimenko, Roman Zobnin and Srdjan Babic, as well as the club’s general director Oleg Malyshev and head coach Dejan Stankovic. TV journalist Ilya Kazakov and businessman Sergei Shishkarev, creators of the film “Fedya”, also visited the cemetery. The people’s footballer.”
— Fyodor Cherenkov is a man of God. I played with him, and as a coach, I worked with him as a player, and as a coach, I worked with him. I know him inside out, and the most correct expression about him is a man of God. “Thank you and salute him for the fact that millions of people started supporting Spartak thanks to him,” the correspondent reports, reporting Romantsev’s words.
Cherenkov played for Spartak from 1977 to 1990, in 1991 and 1993, and became three times USSR champion. He holds the club record for the most matches played. Cherenkov died on 4 October 2014 at the age of 55.
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