A two-year disqualification will be a lesson for the head coach of the Kaliningrad women’s club “Locomotive » Andrei Voronkov the public would not accept his appeal, said the commentator Dmitri Guberniev .
The All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) told on Thursday that it had not received an appeal against the decision to disqualify Voronkov. On May 30, the VFV executive committee decided to disqualify Voronkov for two years for racist remarks against Ailama Sese Montalvo. Previously, the VFV disciplinary commission found the specialist guilty in the case of a racist statement against a Cuban woman. The specialist himself could appeal against the decision of the commission within 10 days.
Apparently, his conscience is tormenting him. It’s a shame he didn’t speak for so long, but he did a great job of finally apologizing. If he appealed, the public would not laugh, it would be sad. These two years of disqualification will pass, but the lesson will remain for life, and not only for him, but also for the team, and for all the people who passionately supported him. We will all fight against such phenomena: no racism! Guberniev told .
On May 12, Voronkov, during a timeout in the fifth game of the final series of the Russian championship with Uralochka-NTMK, giving instructions to his players, dismissed Valery Zaitseva and said: “Why are you still catching this monkey?” The phrase hit the tune “”. Cuban player Montalvo played for the Sverdlovsk region team, which later left the club.
Source : MatchTV
