St. PETERSBURG, Aug 30, Dmitry Yedigarev. Main The coach of the Spartak football club, Guillermo Abascal, faced a lot of challenges in his work while working in the capital team, said the wife of the former owner of the Moscow club Leonid Fedun, Zarema Salikhova.
At the start of the championship of Russia, «Spartak» won three matches, after which he lost in two games and drew once. In the standings of the Russian Premier League (RPL), the team is in seventh place with 10 points. The team finished the previous season of the Russian Championship in third place, in 2022 the club became the owner of the Russian Cup.
“Firstly, the victorious inertia with which the team went through 2022 ended,” Salikhova said in response to a question about what was happening with Spartak. “After the Russian Cup, Spartak mentally felt like a winner. Those guys who held the cup in the hands, they believed in themselves absolutely deservedly. Secondly, the base consisted of Russians. There were games when there were ten players from Russia on the field, and they won. Even young Pavel Meleshin and Daniil Zorin played, and foreigners added power and confidence» .
The interlocutor of the agency compared «Spartak» with a child whose parents send to kindergarten.
“Thirdly, until the end of 2022, visually everything remained the same for the team: Leonid Fedun went into the locker room, morally supported the guys, as he had for many years, although in fact he no longer made decisions either in transfers or in appointments. in words, how you send your child to kindergarten: first you sit with him, then you leave him for two hours, then for half a day, then for the whole day. A completely new stage has begun not only for the team, but also for the club's office, new principles of work and organization, distribution of functions and responsibilities in the first place.Fifth, bringing in so many new players is always stressful for any team, if not «Chertanovo pupils, who feel each other like milk brothers. Look at Chelsea. After the departure of Roman Abramovich and the change of course, they are in a fever even with Mauricio Pochettino,» Salikhova said.
Salikhova noted that the life cycle of the team affects the performance of the team.
“Every team has a cycle. Spartak of the 2022 model gained stability for the game against Zenit when the famous fight took place, but did not reach the peak of development. And in 2023 a new rebuilding began, that is, the team’s life cycle was disrupted. How smoothly and painlessly in terms of performance and scoring the transition from one phase of a team's life to another depends on the class of the sports director. This is the seventh reason,» the agency's interlocutor said.
Salikhova noted that the theoretical and consulting ideas of top management do not give results on the field.
“If you look even higher, the result is only practical experience in football (not hockey, skiing or water polo), and not the theoretical or consulting ideas of top management. You can hire a PR person, but this, alas, will not affect the result on the field. This is the eighth, — added the interlocutor of the agency. — Collegial decision-making in football leads either to collective irresponsibility or to an increase in the time lag. Reporting is submitted not quarterly, but weekly, sometimes twice a week. You also need to get used to this. In football «very fast metabolism»: you have to think and react at lightning speed. A first-team player gets injured, so there's a new TK for the transfer window. It's the ninth.»
According to Salikhova, over the past year Abaskal had many strong shocks that affected his emotional state.
«»And the last thing. The psychological aspect. Coach Guillermo Abascal had very strong upheavals over the past year: the departure of the sports director, the change of the previous owner to a corporate one, an increase in income, fame, recognition, the birth of a child, absolute freedom in managing not only the team «, but also by the club. All these factors affect the emotional state of the coach. And external factors also do not contribute to Zen. No coach in the RPL has faced so many challenges,» Salikhova concluded.