MOSCOW, July 26, Sergey Fuks. Director General of the football club «Ufa» Shamil Gazizov noted in an interview that at one time Sergei Semak agreed to lead the Bashkir team, despite the fact that he had a “warm place” at Zenit. Semak headed Ufa from December 2016 to May 2018, after which he became head coach of Zenit. «Then head coach Viktor Mikhailovich Gancharenko left us, we just started moving, we were in the middle (of the table), in seventh place. And therefore I wanted to continue in the same way. My older friend, good friend Gennady Sergeevich called me Orlov, I respect him very much. He told me: «Look in the direction of Sergei Bogdanovich.» I took his phone, dialed him, we met with him. The negotiations were short-lived, although he has a large family, it was difficult to transport, it was a challenge. And so Sergei Bogdanovich decided then that we must move forward.He left his warm m I’m in Zenit, I decided to move, and this decision turned out to be the right one on our part, and on his part,” Gazizov said. Under the leadership of Semak, the St. Petersburg club won four league titles in a row.
"When I let him go to "Zenith", I did not think that it would be just like this, that "Zenith" take four championships in a row. But everything was leading up to it. But I had no doubts that Sergei Bogdanovich would achieve great results and become a champion,» the agency's interlocutor added.
Read the full interview with Shamil Gazizov at rsport.ria.ru.