Fifteen months Kuchuk and shattered hopes " Locomotive "
MOSCOW, fifteen CEN - R-Sport, Nicholas Ryazantsev. The head coach of the Moscow football club " Lokomotiv " Leonid Kuchuk on the first day of the week was dismissed From the team, to act as coach is ex-player " Loco " Igor Cherevchenko.
The last straw that broke the patience of the club, has become the home draw With Saransk " Mordovia " (1: 1), which extends lose series teams up to 4 matches.
Since 2005, since the end of the era of Yuri Semin, who now heads just " Mordovia ", none of the coaches of " Locomotive " was not able to sit in your own chair And 2 full seasons (including myself Semin, When he briefly returned to " Loco " ). Despite all the expectations of fans of " red-green ", not coped With this task And Kuchuk, who became the tenth coach, who left the team for the last nine years.
Belarusian coach arrived at the capital club in June 2013 on the wave of success With Krasnodar " Kuban ", With which he in 12 games lost only once, And then in the Cup match on penalties " Zenit ". Bringing the total in the League of Europe for the first time in their history, Kucuk did not agree With the club's management in the negotiations on a new contract And left to gain in the capital of Russia.
However, the increase in the time had to say merely: " Loco " under the leadership of overly democratic Slaven Bilic finished in ninth place in the 2012/13 season, showing the worst result in the history of Russia. And yet the Fans reacted to the regular replacement of the coach with skepticism: if European professionals nothing got to do With the team, With a man who could boast except that six wins in the championship of Moldova With the Sheriff, one could hardly expect quick success.
Activity in the transfer market " red-green " also did not differ, but in the end all beginners perfect fit in the game system Kuchuk: known to him on the game in the Ukrainian championship Taras Mykhalyk And Sergey Tkachev added needed depth to the bench, and Ilya Abayev, urgently discharged from the " Volga " after injury Guilherme, became one of the most impenetrable keepers in the Premier League. The main pearls, which are able to catch breeding Department Lokomotiv were Mbark Boussoufa And Lassana Diarra, who left FC Anji Makhachkala after reformatting, initiated by the owner of the Dagestani club Suleiman Kerimov.
It is Monday And Diarra were the main driving force command Kuchuk in the center of the field, the most in the first part of the championship, which the railroad was completed With only three defeats And a real chance for the title. Re-bloomed Alexander Samedov, finally found himself a Brazilian Maicon, Ladies N " Doy continued to stamp the goals And even the " sleeping giant " Roman Pavlyuchenko has successfully coped With the image of " the Joker ". Very important - Kucuk established game in defense, And " Loco " on season results conceded the least in the League: Vedran ?orluka And Jan Durica " burned " the center and the flanks are equally useful worked Vitaly Denisov And Roman Shishkin.
Fans, inspired by the game, and come by the results, even forgot about his confrontation With the President of " Locomotive " Olga Smorodskaya, which started the moment as she headed club.
at the end of the season the team Kuchuk still missed a chance to compete for the championship, losing points against rivals CSKA And Zenit, and suddenly losing " Rostov ". However " Loco " for the first time Since 2006, won the bronze medal, giving hope for the revival of winning tradition " Seminsky period ".
It seemed that everything goes according to plan And in the offseason: finally recovered from severe trauma team captain Dmitry Tarasov, were invited strong by European standards players in the face of Nemanji of Pejcinovic And Manuel Fernandes, Kazan " Rubin " was bought by Alan Kasaev.
The thunder swept When Boussoufa And Diarra did not want to return to the team after the holidays. It was rumored that the Midfielders decided to build the boycott because of dissatisfaction with the coaching approach Kuchuk (later Boussoufa was made in the petition on the Season, although as long as not practicing With the team).
Season team started without prior gloss, but steadily gaining points, winning two games And two more times after draw. When the time came to start in the Europa League game at Lokomotiv lost literally. For a draw in the first match With Cyprus " Apollo " (1: 1) followed absolutely deserved defeat in the game With " Kuban " (1: 2), as happened after the embarrassment at their home stadium in the second leg with a modest Cypriots (1: 4), which will be long dream of attending the game.
Immediately went unverified information that the days of Kuchuk in the Moscow club are numbered, And soon they found their confirmation. The fans stood on the side of the Belarusian coach, speaking at his party slogans And banners, while some players have gone against Kuchuk.
on the first day of the week it was announced that the Treaty of Kuchuk " in the near future will be terminated ". In the end, the trainer crashes With the team With the best percentage of wins in the history of Russia after Semin. In 46 matches under the guidance of Kuchuk " Loco " 23 times achieved victory, played 13 times in a draw, And 10 matches lost." The locomotive will search for the next coach that is able to breathe new life into the team.
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