Good football players often fail to understand why others cannot do what they do. In this the Soviet footballer, Merited Master of Sports Vladimir Ponomarev sees the main problem of the head coach of the Russian national football team Valery Karpin, as he announced on Tuesday, November 16, in an interview with Izvestia.
In his opinion, Karpin knew who he would have to work with, and he could hardly have been surprised by the “idiots in the Major League.”
“It is unclear why he took on this job. Didn’t he know what kind of players we have? He knew our Russian football very well, that there was nothing interesting. What was he hoping for? Did you count on luck? It doesn’t work that way. You just have to work from scratch with these idiots who play in the big league here. They need to be taught everything. This could have been done by Petkov or Yakushin. Nobody else could work with them, ”Ponomarev noted.
The legendary footballer is sure that with the current Russian national team it is necessary to work according to a special scheme: to teach every minute, every second, to do analyzes. And Karpin, according to his assumptions, does not know how to do this.
“Because he was a good player after all. And such people do not understand why others do not do what they can. It’s hard to understand that. Not every good player can be a coach. And vice versa, it happens that a bad player becomes a great coach, ”explained the master of sports.
Earlier, Valery Karpin allowed his departure from office before the play-offs. He clarified that the contract with him was automatically extended, but for now he needs to rest, and then calmly analyze and think. The coach stressed that in the last match of the national team he was disappointed not by the result, but by the game. According to him, there were no even attempts to play.
On November 14, the Russian national football team lost to Croatia due to an own goal (0: 1). In the 81st minute of the game, Fedor Kudryashov scored a goal into the right corner of his goal. Thus, the Russian national team with 22 points took second place in the qualifying group. Then Karpin called the defeat by the Croats the most offensive in his career.
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