Former football player of CSKA and the USSR national team Vladimir Ponomarev, St. Petersburg “Zenith” criticized the defender of Mario Fernandez. His words convey concrete mobile.
“Spit on this Mario! He didn’t play for a year, was on the bench and played only five games in Internacional. Then he came and immediately became a major player. This isn’t happening, I don’t believe it. Usually you have to play them before there are doubles. And now they take it everywhere.
I am not at all worried about him leaving CSKA. Mario is not a defender. He is a freelance artist himself. Why does it get so many points? Because no one is holding him and he hasn’t played defensively either. We couldn’t get back to the defense. Thanks to him, CSKA and the Russian team conceded a lot of goals. “Fernandez doesn’t know how to play defensively,” he said.
Zenit introduced Fernandez as a team player on July 17. The parties signed a contract according to the 1+1 system.
It has been learned that before the last game of CSKA in the 2021/22 season, Fernandez decided to take a career break indefinitely. He transferred to Brazil Internacional on loan at the beginning of 2023 with the permission of CSKA, but left the club in April. CSKA was negotiating for the player’s return, but the parties could not agree.
As part of the army club, Fernandez won the national championship and the Russian Cup three times, and the Super Cup once.
Formerly Akinfeev declaration About the indifference to Fernandez’s move to Zenit.