Women’s Volleyball Club Head CoachLocomotive “Konstantin Sidenko was appointed from the Kaliningrad region, reports the press service of the team.
Previously, the team was led by Andrey Voronkov, who made a racist statement about black Uralochka-NTMK volleyball player Ailama Sese Montalvo and was disqualified.
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 Valeria Zaitseva and said to her: “Why are you catching that monkey again? These words were broadcast by . Montalvo then left the Yekaterinburg club. Later, the executive committee of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VVF) approved a two-year disqualification of Voronkov for racially insulting Montalvo. The suspension implies Voronkov’s non-participation in all events under the auspices of the VFV.
Sidenko’s coaching career began in 2014 at Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, where he worked as a senior coach, then led the Major League “A” team – “Academy Kazan”.
In August 2017, Sidenko was named head coach of the Russian men’s student team at the World Universiade, where he won silver. From December 2018 to February 2020 he led the Urals from Ufa. In the 2020/21 season he was a member of the coaching staff of Kuzbass Kemerovo, and in the 2021/2022 season – Zenit Kazan.
As a player, Sidenko became the Russian champion (1996, 2007) with the capital’s CSKA and Dynamo-Tattransgaz Kazan, respectively, and also won the Champions League and the Russian Cup in 2011 in part of Lokomotiv Novosibirsk.
Lokomotiv from the Kaliningrad region is the current champion of Russia.
Source : MatchTV
