Attack Lokomotiv Maxim Chalunov appointed coach of the Yaroslavl club Igor Nikitin one of the best coaches in Russia.
Is Igor Nikitin also your coach?
– I’m glad that fate brought us together and that we ended up together in Lokomotiv. He knows me perfectly as a player and I know his requirements as a coach. We are the seventh year we will work together. It’s easier for me to rebuild with shade changes than with another system.
– And what distinguishes Nikitin as a coach?
– He’s a great professional. Not only a good coach, but also a psychologist, both in hockey and in life. His advice isn’t just useful on the ice. Everything is interconnected: how you behave in life, and on the pitch. Igor Valerievich – well done. I don’t know how else to describe it, so many things have been said about it. From my side – only good and kind words. He really is one of the best, if not the best, coach in Russia.
“And one of the strictest?”
Of course, he is strict. And what kind of coach should be? Like, to walk on your head? Moderately strict. And above all, that everyone asks for the case.
– Is the fact that smiles are forbidden in its teams a cliché of journalists?
– It was the journalists who launched and suffered. How can there be a team that doesn’t smile? When I was young in Chelyabinsk, I had a coach who came to training and told me: “Don’t smile here, work.” Then there was a mindset of not smiling. There is nothing like it here. Igor Valeryevich may not smile with journalists and joke, but with us – often – Shalunov is quoted by RB Sport.
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