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OVCHINNIKOV: WISH 40.000 PEOPLE COME FOR KUBAN MATCHES
Today the new head coach of FC Kuban Sergei Ovchinnikov has his first
workday in Krasnodar: the players are returning from their holidays. And
yesterday he gave an interview to Sport Express.
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Sergei Ovchinnikov Photo SPORT
EXPRESS
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"Our early start seems too early for old hands in
the Premier League, said the former goalie. "But the First Division
has finished the season two weeks earlier. And I want to learn my players
as soon as possible."
"Moreover we decided to celebrate the eightieth birthday of the club
and its getting into the Premier League. So we will have a weeklong training
camp without loadings and then again see each other on January 8."
"I began to think about the coaching work at 35. As I understood
that would not play long. So I began to analyze different coaches and
their ways. But I won't copycat any of them, for I have my own perception
of football."
"I have understood the managers of the club are not very anxious
of getting into the Premier League but want to create a strong united
team that is capable of reaching high goals."
"We do not plan to purchase great players with famous names and that
meets my philosophy: you should strive for success from the sensible,
develop the best qualities of the footballers and build a team of a high
level on the basis of professional work. That means that the team does
not feel ashamed of their game as well as of the result."
"In this conception I seem to be the follower of Semin [the current
head coach of Dynamo Kyiv] for whom most important was the occupancy rate
of the stadium."
"I wish that on the matches of Kuban all forty thousands seats of
the stadium were occupied."
"I am aware of the fact that a coach and a player are two different
professions and their standards of behaviour differ a lot. I follow the
principle: you cannot achieve anything shouting on the players, the relations
with them must be regardful, and you can make people respect you with
your work only."
Sport
Express Daily, 10 Dec 2008
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