Former Spartak Moscow football player Evgeniy Lovchev spoke critically about the appointment of Tomas Amaral as the sports director of the red-whites and said that Oleg Romantsev should undertake this task. His words guide the way “Soviet sport”.
“To be honest, I don’t know him or his predecessor. Another bandit. I can’t understand only one thing: why don’t we invite Romantsev to the team, make him an advisor, mentor, sports director or something else so that foreign experts do not come here? I have a difficult relationship with him, but he has won the championship for ten years, he deserves to take every position like no one else,” Lovchev said.
On 22 December, Spartak announced that Amaral would become the club’s new sports director. The last place of work of the Portuguese specialist was Benfica Lisbon. He will start working in his new position on January 1, 2024. Amaral was not working as a sports director before Spartak. He worked as a scout at Benfica.
The red-whites, led by Guillermo Abascal, collected 30 points after 18 weeks in the first half of the Russian Premier League (RPL) season and ranked fifth, eight points behind the leader Krasnodar and six points behind the national champion Zenit St. .Petersburg ” At the same time, the team reached the Russian Cup RPL Road play-offs with the same Krasnodar in first place in the group and with Dynamo Moscow in third place.
Previously Alexander Mostovoy statedThat he did not care about Amaral’s appointment to Spartak.