Kyiv’s head coach Dynamo Mircea Lucescu remarked on his viraz “We didn’t play against Besiktas, but against the chosen African”, stating that his words were misunderstood.
“I have not underestimated Besiktas in any way, but I would like to say that Besiktas picked a good team of foreigners for the first season. I emphasized Africa, to praise Besiktas’ selection.”
I don’t understand, discrimination in my words. I have a lot of experience with African football players. My words about wealthy Africans in Beshiktash were not an expression of the negative and the discrimination.
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Besiktas has made a good transfer this season and is ready to fight for the championship in Turkey. If I was the coach of the Turechchini team, I didn’t know the seriousness of Beshiktash, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce, so I could ask them for the national team. And all that is given more of a chance to foreigners in Turechchyna,” Lucescu told NTV Spor.
Let’s guess: in the first game of the League of the Conference play-off qualification, Besiktas defeated Dynamo (3:2). The match-up takes place in Istanbul, 31 days.
