Football “the locomotive” has taken the most high-profile personnel decision in Russia in the period of the pandemic coronavirus. Without waiting for the formal end of the season, he broke up with who held the post of head coach Yury Semin, who had achieved essentially all significant achievements in its history. The post of mentor is a veteran Semin took the young Serbian specialist Marko Nikolic. Kommersant’s sources say that the reason for the resignation of Yuri Semin was the unwillingness of the expert to “embedded” in the club structure as a “normal trainer”, and do not exclude that in the near future he still takes in another significant post.Moscow “locomotive” announced Thursday that the club’s Board of Directors authorized the separation from head coach Yuri Semin. The term of his contract expired on 31 may. On June 1, “the Locomotive” will lead the Serb Marko Nikolic.We are talking about one of the most unpopular (fans of the capital club published references in support of Semin) and extraordinary personnel decisions in domestic football over the last few seasons, given the context in which it was made. The championship of Russia, like all other visible European football championship, was suspended in March. And the Russian football Union and Russian Premier League is not hiding the desire in the summer to renew it. “The locomotive” the pause is gone, taking second place in the championship behind nine points from the leader “Zenith” in eight rounds to finish, and in the case of a restart will fight if not for the gold, then at least for a place in the Champions League.73-summer Yury Semin — specialist with huge experience, big and best part of his career which passed in “the Locomotive”. In fact, it is with Semin, four came to the post of the mentor of the railroad connected all their notable successes and, in principle, the transformation of the absolute giants of the national football. It including about the success of fresh.The fourth time Yury Semin has headed “the locomotive” in August 2016. And since the team took a handful of prizes. In 2018 it lasted after 14 year break, she won the gold medal of the championship of Russia in 2017 and 2019 — the national Cup in 2019 — and even the super bowl.The head coach he worked for over ten years, but only in teams that are far away even from the top purely Russian standards. This is the Serbian “Happy”, “Vojvodina” and “Partisans”, the Slovenian “Olympia”, Hungarian “Fehervari”. While at best he achieved with them is very relative success, like the modest victories in the national Championships. High-profile breakthroughs, for example, in Europe Nikolic failed to commit.Photo: Bernadett Szabo / ReutersЗато in his career has been a lot of resignations before the expiration of the contractTA (as well as his previous club: from “Fehervari” coach sacked in November last year) and a fairly resounding scandal. When Marko Nikolic four years ago headed the “Olympia”, it was charged that he called players from the Blessing Elek “black idiot”. Nikolic received a seven-match ban suspended, and the contract with him was broken.Conflict in relationships primarily with top managers — previously was made in part to explain and outs of Yuri Semin, in fact, his native club. Differences vypuskavshemusya in the public plane, with Semin was indeed with almost all who at different times was sitting on top of the management pyramid “Locomotive”, for example the former President of club Valery Filatov, Olga Smorodskaya, Ilya Herkus.”There are people who are easily integrated into the system. Semin believes that he should not be embedded as a regular coach and manage the system. So it’s not Kiknadze. Under the current structure of the club that do not involve the decisive role of the coach, it was supposed to emerge as developed”.The interlocutor of Kommersant said that I will not be surprised if in the coming days Yuri Semin will be offered another “important” position in the club, “at least that would be logical.”Commenting on his resignation, Yuri Semin was advised to contact the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Locomotive” Anatoly Meshcheryakov. Mescheryakov, explaining the meaning of what happened reshuffle, told “RIA Novosti” that Semin was part of the “final shortlist” of candidates for the post of head coach. “We knew we need a coach who will take the situation as a challenge. The task before him is difficult and ambitious, it should be approached with excitement, and with the understanding that strong enough to survive all the UPS and downs that are inevitable when working with young players. The coach should also strive to develop, including his career, his reputation. After weighing the many pros and cons, stopped on the candidacy Nikolic”, he added.Speaking about the future of Yuri Semin, Anatoly Meshcheryakov admitted that “the locomotive” and in fact invites him to stay at the club, “what is intended to introduce the position of honorary coach with the appropriate wage and, say, a relevant “social package””.Alex Armor
