Double Olympic champion Boris Maireov told that Zinetula Bilyaletdinov it’s going to be difficult to put things in order Ak bars due to the large number of star players in the team.
Ak Bars officially announced Bilyaletdinov as the team’s head coach on Tuesday. His contract runs until the end of the season. Prior to that, Yuriy Babenko was Kazan’s interim head coach.
— Bilyaletdinov is a man of experience. And this experience has not left him. Of course, he will now have to work with Ak Bars, whom he doesn’t know very well. It will take time for the coach to understand the team and for the players to understand it. But in general, I have no doubts about Bilyaletdinov’s candidacy.
– Will he be able to find a common language with such stars as Radulov, Shipachev, Voinov?
“This, of course, is not easy. When Bilyaletdinov previously worked with Ak Bars, he selected the players himself. And he invited newcomers to the team to fit into both the game and the team. Now no one asks him. They gave 25 people and asked to put things in order. When there are a lot of stars in the team, it’s not very good. After all, each player has a contract with specific conditions. For example, how many games he should play, how many points to score. His salary depends on it. For example, a coach wants a known player to be benched. He will immediately begin to resent: “Money is leaving me! I can score twice as many goals, but the coach won’t let me.” The abundance of stars will complicate the work of Bilyaletdinov. But I’m sure he will find ways to elevate the team. More important still, it couldn’t get any worse.
Previously, Bilyaletdinov led Ak Bars from 2004 to 2011, as well as from 2014 to 2019. With the Kazan club, he won the Gagarin Cup three times (2009, 2010, 2018).
Source : MatchTV
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