St. PETERSBURG, Oct 26, Dmitry Yedigarev. Forward of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit Ivan Sergeev said in an interview that the head coach of the Samara Krylia Sovetov Igor Osinkin is ready to work in a top club. Osinkin has been heading the Samara club since the summer of 2020. Under his leadership, the team became the winner of the championship of the Football National League (FNL) and returned to the Russian Premier League (RPL). Sergeev played for Krylya Sovetov from 2020 to 2021. Igor Osinkin is a very interesting coach in terms of details and tactics. players: Dmitry Kombarov, Alexander Gatskan, Dmitry Kabutov, Evgeny Frolov. Osinkin even added Kombarov in his years. He gave a lot in terms of combinational play, understanding. Somewhere to play thinner. He loved passes, beautiful combinations. We played cool , scored a lot of goals and scored a lot of points thanks to him. At the beginning, it didn’t go to the RPL. Then we adapted and showed a good game. When the team finished the season without me in 8th place, I congratulated the guys and the coaching staff. We have a warm relationship «, — Sergeev said. «He can reveal the potential of the players. There are many pupils who play at a good level. But he has long been ready for a coaching step forward. I had such a step when I moved from Wings of the Soviets to Zenit. He has a move may be in the near future. I think yes. In Samara, Osinkin found a common language with foreign players. In this regard, it should work. The first time may not go, because you need to get to know each other first. But given time, he can reveal the team,» the agency's interlocutor added. Read the full interview with Ivan Sergeev on rsport.ria.ru on Thursday.
