Head coach of Kazan volleyball “Zenith” Alexei Verbov admitted he did not know the details of the scandal involving ex-Lokomotiv Kaliningrad coach Andrei Voronkov, but viewed a one-year ban as a serious punishment.
On May 12, 2022, during a timeout in the fifth game of the final series of the Russian championship with Uralochka, Voronkov, giving an instruction to his players, pushed aside Valery Zaitseva and said: “Why are you still catching this monkey? ” The phrase hit the tune “”. At that time, Cuban Ailama Sese Montalvo, who later left the club, was on the field as part of the Sverdlovsk region team.
“To be honest, I didn’t go into the details of this story. You can say something emotionally. But in my mind, you just need to apologize, because emotions are a thing. And in a calm situation, if you’ve ever lost your temper, apologize if you’ve offended someone. As far as I know, he did. I did not speak to him, I did not ask him how this situation had arisen. If he apologized, then a year of disqualification is a serious period, if not more. If not, that’s another story.
It also depends on upbringing – many factors. There are those who believe that he did nothing, such cases happened – and not only with Andrei Gennadievich. Others think his lyrics were snagged, but the person himself doesn’t think so. Because the context was completely different. A complicated problem. But my upbringing says if you’ve done something and someone thinks you’ve offended someone, it’s never hard to say a few words and apologize, even if it wasn’t worth it. sadness. It won’t rust behind me,” Verbov told The Championship.
After the scandal, the executive committee of the VFV disqualified Voronkov for two years. On May 3, 2023, it became known that the second year of disqualification had been replaced by a suspended year, so Voronkov can return to training now. On the same day, Voronkov, in an interview with , said he was not racist and offered a heartfelt public apology to Montalvo, whom he meant no offense.
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