MOSCOW, Aug 18 Manage the Moscow football club «Torpedo» after the departure of the chief Alexander Borodyuk will be coached by Nikolai Kovardaev, according to the team’s official website. On Thursday, Torpedo and Borodyuk agreed to terminate cooperation by agreement of the parties, and sports director Maxim Lyapin, who has held this position since 2020, also left the team. Kovardaev is 51 years old. He worked as a coach and head coach in the teams «Metallurg» (Donetsk), «Dynamo» (Moscow), «Siberia» (Novosibirsk), «Mordovia» (Saransk), «SKA-Khabarovsk», «Arsenal» (Tula), » Torpedo-2″. He headed the youth teams «Saturn» (Ramenskoye), «Khimki», «Dynamo», «Arsenal», also worked in the youth teams of Russia. Since February 2022, he has worked as the head coach of Torpedo-2. Andrey Gordeev and goalkeeping coach Anatoly Rozhkov also joined the Torpedo coaching staff. Torpedo scored one point in five rounds of the current season and ranks 15th in the standings.
