The combination of positions in the club and the Russian national football team led to his departure Valeria Karpina of Dinamo Moscow. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the People’s Artist RFpianist Denis Matsuev.
On November 17, Karpin announced his resignation as Dynamo’s head coach, citing this decision to focus on the national team. At that time, the team was in 10th place in the Russian championship standings.
“Based on the results of the matches, of course, this was a predictable result,” Matsuev said. — Combining positions is always a lottery, whether it works or not. I don’t remember who was successful on two teams at the same time. Probably only Valery Lobanovsky, under whose leadership the team won second place at the 1988 European Championships, but the core of the team was Dynamo,” said Matsuev. — You can also remember Leonid Slutsky, who worked in CSKA and at the same time bring the Russian national team to the Euro.”
“But these are rather happy exceptions that only confirm the rule: combining the position of coach of a club team and the national team at the same time is an extremely risky and, most often, unsuccessful decision. And Konstantin Beskov combined the leadership of the national team with the coach at Spartak; he went with the team to the 1982 World Cup. If you remember, for the first time we used a format with two group stages, and if we had won against the Poles, we would have reached As I said, these cases are exceptions to the rule and basically everything ends sadly for the coach,” he added.
