MOSCOW, Oct 14, Sergey Fuchs. Moscow Lokomotiv used to have development strategy, only it was aimed at developing its own pupils, and not foreign young football players, said the former chairman of the board of directors of the club Anatoly Meshcheryakov. In the fall of 2021, Lokomotiv's development strategy was presented, created by the company of German coach and manager Ralf Rangnick. Rangnik later left the capital club. In October of this year, Chairman of the Board of Directors Alexander Plutnik, sports director Thomas Zorn, and head coach Josef Zinnbauer left Lokomotiv. «Everyone said that there is a strategy. I can say that Lokomotiv had it before, it wrote (former sports director Eric) Stoffelshaus «A strategy written by a company that is not immersed in real problems and the life of the club cannot be implemented, this is firstly. Secondly, the social function of the shareholders was the development of children's and youth sports, therefore the previous strategy “Lokomotiv” was based on the development of its own academy,” Meshcheryakov said. “Without a doubt, the closure of Kazanka and everything that is happening at the academy at the present time is a mistake. I think that we must first of all develop our young players, and not strangers. moreover, the Lokomotiv academy is one of the strongest in the country, if not the strongest. We can just look at the number of graduates in the RPL clubs,» he added. t in 14th place in the Russian Championship table, after 12 rounds the club scored 9 points. The closest rival of the railway workers will be the Moscow «Torpedo», the match will be held on October 15.
