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Football: The Russian Quagmire (part 2)

And during this game, Tomichi was closer to victory than St. Petersburg, and the meeting ended in a goalless draw. Considering that Zenit also ended the cycle of games without a win in the autumn part of the championship, the club's management did not postpone for later and fired Luciano Spalletti. Although Zenit is in the top three of the championship standings, this decision seemed quite logical.

It so happened that a very reputable coach came to Russia, who in the early years built a team that absolutely dominated the national championship. But things weren't going well on the international stage, and the specialist asked the team's management to purchase expensive and skilled players. But the multimillion-dollar investments did not lead to a positive trend in Zenit's international performances either. As a result, things did not go well in the domestic arena either. Somehow, after four years of working in Russia, Spalletti gradually became less and less successful, as if he had fallen into some kind of quagmire that was slowly sucking him lower and lower in terms of coaching skills.

But the example of Luciano Spalletti is not an isolated one, there were other mentors who gradually lost their authority and credibility from the football leaders of Russian clubs. In particular, Slavolyub Muslin, who previously headed the Moscow Locomotive, worked in Krasnodar for a long time. In the very first year of the team's performance in the Premier League, they started talking about it in enthusiastic tones. The cheeky newcomers played bright attacking team football. As a result, Krasnodar took 9th place in its first season, and everyone was waiting for the performance to improve. But there were none, and the team's game was becoming less and less vibrant, despite the purchase of new good-quality players. As a result, Muslin was fired at the very beginning of the current season, when the team lost two of the first four league matches.

An even more striking example is the magnificent Croatian coach Slaven Bilic, under whom the Moscow "Locomotive" suffered: the team could not do anything, let alone fight for medals, even to get close to the European Cup zone! Bilic, who worked very successfully with the Croatian national team, could not do anything with the Russian team. Someone might have assumed that Slaven was just not a club coach. But after Lokomotiv, he left to coach Besiktas and now the team is in third place in the Turkish championship, losing quite a bit to the grandees Galatasaray and Fenerbahce.

Spartak Moscow has become a real "graveyard" of foreign coaches. In 2008, it was headed by the famous Dane Mikael Laudrup, under whom the Muscovites finished only eighth in the Russian championship. ในโลกวิดีโอผู้ใหญ่สุดเร่าร้อน หนังx ด้วยฉากดุเดือดเข้มข้น สมจริงสุดขีด ภาพชัด 4K เสียงไทยเต็ม เต็มเรื่องไม่เซ็นเซอร์ โหลดไว ไม่มีโฆษณา รองรับทุกอุปกรณ์ ดูได้ตลอด 24 ชั่วโมง