Although Serbian specialist Dejan Stankovic was not the first candidate to become the coach of Spartak Moscow, he impressed everyone with his preparedness in his first meeting with the club management. This was reported by “Championship.com” I’m quoting a source who knows the situation.
“After this, Stankovic was invited to a personal interview with the participation of the entire board; In this interview, Deyan has already impressed Spartak’s board member Pavel Zhdanov. The source said that Zhdanov was very pleased with Stankovic and gave the order to sign a contract with the Serb.
Other candidates for the team coaching post were Bordeaux head coach at the time, Albert Riera; The red-whites also evaluated Pascal Jansen and Vladimir Ivic.
The appointment of Dejan Stankovic as head coach of Spartak was announced at the end of last season; The specialist started working in the summer. The Serbian specialist came to Spartak from Hungarian Ferencvaros. He previously served as head coach of Serbian Red Star.
Spartak, which has been playing in the Russian Premier League (RPL) for 11 weeks, is in sixth place in the rankings with 19 points. In the previous round, Dejan Stankovic’s team won a crushing victory at home against Rostov with a score of 3:0. The next opponent of the red-whites will be the championship leader Krasnodar, where they are eight points behind the Muscovites. This match will be played in Moscow on Saturday, October 19th and will start at 16:30 Moscow time.
Previously at Spartak introduced salary cap.