Former football player of Moscow “Spartak” and the Russian national team Alexander Mostovoy, head coach of “Zenith” Sergei Semak in St. He shared his opinion on his role in the success of the St. Petersburg club.
The 46-year-old has been head of the club since May 2018. Before that, he coached Ufa for a year and a half.
“Zenit won the RPL with Semak as well as other coaches. He took nothing from Ufa.
Sergei Bogdanovich played in Zenit, and the club thought: how much money can you spend on one, on the second, when you can put your own specialist and win the championship with good players in the same way. Semak gained nothing in Europe. Every year there is a failure.
I think you’re glad you got your money and all the conditions have been created, now if you remove six or seven legionnaires and get ordinary Russian football players, they will start to talk differently. Petersburg club would take third or fourth place in the RPL, and then they would start talking. Nothing surprising here, ”Mostovoy quotes sports24.
Recall that before the resumption of the season in the Russian Premier League (RPL), the team led by Sergei Semak took the first place in the standings with 42 points.
In the second position the capital “Spartak” (36), in the third – “Rostov” (35).
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