St. Petersburg, July 27, Sergey Yaremenko. Former Zenit defender «Daniel Chirita in an interview expressed the opinion that the fans loved the St. Petersburg team in which he played more than the current one. Chirita played for Zenit from 2002 to 2004. As part of the St. Petersburg club, the Romanian won the Premier League Cup and became the silver medalist of the Russian Championship — 2003. «In December, I came to St. Petersburg for a match with Chelsea. I went to the new stadium, looked at the new Zenit. money, there are a lot of foreigners. But everything is different. In my time, mostly Russians played, the guys received small salaries, the bonuses were also not so big. Everything has changed. The main thing is that there were a lot of Russians in that team. Now there are only foreigners. I I don’t understand this. It seems to me that our team was loved more,” Chirita said. “The new arena of Zenit is super! The second stadium in Europe! it was minus 15 degrees, and in the arena — plus 20! I immediately remembered how we played in the UEFA Cup against Grasshopper in 2002. It was ten degrees cold there. It was wildly cold,» Chirita said. Read the full interview with Daniel Chirita on Wednesday at rsport.ria.ru.