Double Olympic champion and former Hong Kong strikerSpartacus » Boris Maireov in an interview with , he recalled how conflicts between players and coaches were resolved in Soviet times.
Maiorov played for Spartak in 1956-1969 and won the USSR championship three times.
As it became known from “”, the forward “Ak Barca » Alexander Radulov behaves too confrontationally in the team, this is the reason for the removal of the hockey player from the main team before the Fonbet KHL Championship match with Neftekhimik.
Earlier on Thursday, the head coach of Kazan Oleg Znarok said Radulov “is still in a team that doesn’t play, and there are reasons for that.” Reports have emerged in the media of a conflict in training involving the 36-year-old striker. According to , the star player’s main competitor is Salavat Yulaev.
Ak Bars started the season unsuccessfully and now sit in seventh place in the East table. Radulov is currently the team’s top scorer with 15 points (8+7). This summer, the forward returned to Russia after six seasons in the NHL. Kazan will play their next home game on Sunday against Neftekhimik.
– You were yourself a player of character and a trainer no less tough. Have you ever been involved in similar conflicts between a coach and a player? How do they usually end?
– I was also expelled from Spartak. The ideologue of this was Mr. Igumnov. He thought I was challenging. I didn’t have a game at the time. I broke out once during training, the second … Igumnov decided that he had to part with me. True, three days later they fired me and even apologized. Even though I didn’t do anything. Nikolai Ivanovich Karpov, who also took part in my withdrawal, no longer being a coach, but retired, repeatedly asked me for forgiveness for this.
– When you yourself became a coach, did you have difficult conflicts with the players?
We worked under completely different conditions. We had no financial control levers. For example, he could not reduce the player’s salary. He was supposed to receive it according to the staffing table. I could not send a player to the reserves – they were short, there were no agricultural clubs or youth teams at that time. Only Viktor Tikhonov had leverage in the form of a national team, but we didn’t. It was a little easier to work on the periphery. There, the clubs paid the player 250 rubles a month – which was required by law. Additionally, bonuses have been added to the left. And thanks to these bonuses, it was possible to somehow influence the players. But Spartak never had extra income in my life.
Source : MatchTV
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