Former famous domestic football player Valery Masalitin, who played for Moscow CSKA and Spartak throughout his professional career, spoke about Leonid Slutsky’s departure to the Chinese championship in a comment to Gazeta, stating that the coach accepted a specific offer in this way. Call.
“In principle, it is of course bad that he has not been coaching lately. We know that he was performing together with Dziuba. If at that time he was analyzing his work – what worked, what did not work. Of course, this is a plus for him if you follow the trends in the development of world football. Going to China is a conscious “I think it was a decision. It was a definite challenge for him. He accepted the challenge,” says Masalitin.
Slutsky once headed the Chinese Shanghai Shenhua, where world football stars such as Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka played. The last place of duty of the Russian specialist was Rubin Kazan, from which he left a year ago and where he took fourth place with the team in the First League. Following the results of that season, Kazan finally managed to return to the Russian Premier League and won the title in the second most important league.
Previously Alexander Mostovoy named Slutsky random person in football.