MOSCOW, May 30. The Executive Committee of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VVF) made a decision to disqualify the head coach of Lokomotiv (Kaliningrad region) Andrey Voronkov for two years for racist remarks against the Cuban striker of the Yekaterinburg Uralochka-NTMK Ailama Sese Montalvo, said VFV Secretary General Alexander Yaremenko. The incident occurred in the fifth match of the final playoff series of the championship Russia «Locomotive» — »Uralochka-NTMK». At the end of the third game, he took a time out and turned to one of his volleyball players with the words: «Why are you catching this monkey again?» The phrase went live. The volleyball player herself later stated that the insults from Voronkov did not hurt her, but left the club two days later. implies non-participation of the coach in competitions under the auspices of the VFV. He was suspended from all events held by the VFV. The decision was made unanimously. (Nikolay) Karpol did not take part in the vote, because to some extent he is an interested person, «Yaremenko said. Earlier, the disciplinary the VFV commission found Voronkov guilty in the case of a racist statement against Montalvo. The specialist himself fundamentally refused to apologize to the Cuban volleyball player.
