Vadim Garanin / Photo: © Alexey Eremin / Match TV
Yenisei head coach Vadim Garanin told RB Sport about the meeting with the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin.
“Yes, it’s true,” Garanin noted. – This meeting was just before the start of specific communication with Yenisei.
— It is not standard when a governor, a politician appoints a coach.
So he takes responsibility. It happens that club presidents who are not completely familiar with football details choose the coaching staff. They have assistants who offer some ideas. The choice still remains with the most important person in the hierarchy of the club. In Nizhny Novgorod, the governor lives by this, helping regional sports. When we met, a lot was said about hockey, the academy, the second team. A person is so in the subject that he has the right, after listening to his assistants, to choose a coach.
– What were his requirements for a new coach?
– He wanted the club to develop not only in terms of infrastructure and reserve training, but also in terms of results. In sports, without it, nowhere. You can play very well, but be in the middle of the table, or stand behind, play counterattacks and win medals. We want to play our philosophy and achieve results. The governor really wants the club to rise higher and does a lot for this.
Last fall, Garanin was fired from his post as head coach of Sochi. In January, the specialist, together with his coaching staff, returned to the Krasnoyarsk Enisey, where he worked before leaving for Sochi.
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