Former Spartak coach Dmitry Alenichev does not regret having agreed to lead the “red-whites” in 2015.
If I came back in 2015 and it was still necessary to decide whether to lead Spartak, I would definitely do it. I have said several times that it was my dream. I played for many years in red and white and I won a lot. To be honest, I was hoping for a longer term as head coach.
But, as I was walking around, I realized that any significant misfiring would cost me dearly. Given the past, when the coaches changed at Spartak almost every year, I clearly realized that this too, most likely, would not be tolerated by anyone. One year is certainly not enough. I expected to win the championship or at least the cup with the team.
However, he perfectly understood that Leonid Fedun took me not so much of his own free will as under the pressure of public opinion. I saw no particular desire in him to name myself. Also, his son-in-law Yukhan Geraskin slept and saw Kurban Berdyev as the head coach.
I don’t think the old interview story influenced Fedun’s attitude towards me.SELF“Starkov is a dead end for Spartak”. Too much time has passed since then and other factors were already at work. By the way, we have never seen Alexander Petrovich again.
Despite everything, I went to Spartak. Because he dreamed of coaching the red and white and simply could not refuse such a possibility. I thought: what if he never was again? And I was hoping to be able to reverse the trend, convince the owner of Spartak.
I worked at Arsenal for three years and, probably, it was possible to take someone from the center of the Premier League, gain experience. But he proceeded from the fact that Spartak was not invited twice.
