FC Karelia Petrozavodsk’s Sergey Dmitriev reflects on dispute at FC Volga Tver
FC Karelia Petrozavodsk’s newly appointed head coach, Sergey Dmitriev, has spoken about his nightmare spell at Volga and the current performance of Karelia in the Russian Second Division.
Sergey Dmitriev has explained his decision to move to Spartak stadium and revealed that he was on the brink of joining Zenit St. Petersburg as an assistant coach after talking to the club technical director, Igor Korneev. However the proposal was not agreed
and the deal failed to go through.
The former Spartak Moscow player expressed his sympathies for the Volgari, who were relegated from the Russian First Division last season and explained that the management needs to be changed at Volga.
The 47-year-old blasted the officials and the management at Volga Tver. He went on to reveal that the Russian club had no base, no field for training, no treasury and most specifically there was a clear shortage of food at times.
Dmitriev hit out at the club CEO, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vladimir-c36322 Utkin, and lashed out at the members of the team by highlighting the fact that the club had no goals.
“Exit at the first division. It was necessary to build a team that would equal fought at a higher level. But all this was just talk. We had to look at the problem more deeply and to speak the truth coaching staff and players. I do not know, though, as now
there is the situation Last year when the problems started, three months later, it all collapsed, and it became clear that neither the lofty tasks can be no question.” He further revealed.
The former CSKA Moscow midfielder explained the fact that the players had no desire to win, had set their sights on staying in the mid table of the Russian Second Division and they did not want to raise the standards.
Sergey Dmitriev, who won the Russian Cup, Soviet Cup, Russian Premier League and Soviet top league during his playing career, joined Karelia in order to win the division and is looking forward to transforming the squad into one of the best teams in the Russian
Second Division.
With the first championship break drawing close, Karelia are 13th in the league table, but the manager believes that there is a lot of football yet to be played. He is confident that the team will play quality and disciplined football in the near
future to clinch a top spot come the end of the season.
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