Hockey players and fans »Avant-garde ” respect Sergei Zvyagin the specialist is ready to solve serious problems, said Mikhail Averin, chairman of the board of directors of the Omsk club.
On Monday, Avangard announced that Zvyagin, 53, had been confirmed as head coach of Avangard, with the contract running until the end of the 2025/26 season.
— Sergei Zvyagin has demonstrated excellent quality of work as a goalkeeper coach for several years. All of his players gained skill and brought benefits to Avangard. At a critical moment, during the series with Lokomotiv, he agreed to take over the team and did everything possible to win. It wasn’t enough, but everyone saw how Avangard’s game had changed, how the team had come together.
A clever combination of experience, passion for his work and well-timed emotions showed us: Zvyagin is exactly the person we need as head coach of Avangard. He is respected by the team and the fans, and he is ready to take this step.
On behalf of myself and the entire club, I would like to support Sergei Evgenievich and wish him good luck. The club will help him in everything. In the offseason, we need to become stronger in order to solve serious problems,” Averin told the Avangard website.
Avangard finished their performance in the Gagarin Cup this season, losing in the second round to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv with a score of 3–4. Zvyagin, who worked as an assistant in the coaching staff of the Omsk team, became the acting head coach of Avangard in the series with the railway workers after the resignation of Mikhail Kravets.
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