After Rostov’s devastating defeat to Bayern in the Champions League, Kurban Berdyev, who then headed the “yellow-blues,” was so angry that he crushed the refrigerator with his blow, former Don team striker Alexander Bukharov said in an interview with Match TV.

The meeting between Bayern and Rostov took place on September 13, 2016 in Munich as part of the group stage of the Champions League and ended with a score of 5:0 in favor of the hosts. In that Champions League, Rostov took third place in the group and qualified for the Europa League playoffs.

— Your former teammates often recall the moment when he broke the remote control in the locker room. Have moments like this often happened?

– Often. Although we didn’t lose that often. I don’t remember this happening at Rubin. But in Rostov, a similar thing happened after the defeat to Bayern with a score of 0:5 in the first game. Then the refrigerator got hit hard, it dented it. I think I kicked him, I don’t remember. We didn’t behave very well in the locker room then—we laughed. And he came in and made it clear that we were wrong. Perhaps, if he had not done this, we would not have beaten Bayern at home,” Bukharov told Match TV.

Bukharov played for Rostov from 2014 to 2017. Berdyev coached the Rostov team from 2014 to 2016, and then until 2017 he was the club’s vice-president and consulting coach.

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