Domestic teams are preparing for the new season. One of them is Kryvbas, which returned to the Premier League after nine years. About the work of the team and his first month at the helm of the site "TEAM1" Yuriy Vvernydub, the head coach of the Kryvyi Rih team, said.
— Our training is going according to plan, said Vernidub. — Those guys who agreed to work in Kryvbas are all in place. However, we continue to breed. We also have a lot of young people with good data. So let's train and try to choose the best football players for the first team. And life will show whether we did everything right.
— You are almost a month old as head coach of Kryvbas. What was the main factor in your choice?
— I have already said many times that the president of Kryvbas helped my division of the Armed Forces a lot, especially at the beginning of the Russian aggression. Therefore, when I received an offer to lead the team, I simply could not refuse. It's too much that I love my work and the feeling of some kind of duty to Kryvbas has not left me...
— As far as I understand anddidn't you leave the Armed Forces?
- No. I am a conscript and an employee of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
— Does all the training of "Kryvbas" take place in Kryvyi Rih?
- So. And I don't see a problem with it. We have excellent conditions for working at the club base. Now the most important thing is for the championship to start. Thanks to our soldiers, I think it is real. In such a difficult time, our army makes it possible for many people to feel more or less calm, and at the same time to work.
— Do you think we will be able to have a full season under these conditions?
— It's hard for me to say. Woke up in the morning, already fine. Currently, yes. But I have no doubts about our victory, the only question is how long it will take.
- "Kryvbas" is one of the newsmakers of the current offseason. Does it speak it that the team will face serious challenges?
— You must understand that we have a practically new team. And it's not because I want to see someone and I don't. Circumstances just happened that way. "Kryvbas" was at a meeting in Turkey in the winter when the war began. Some of the football players did not want to return, some settled abroad, so no one forced anyone or made any claims. The football players who wanted to play in Kryvbas are now here. No one cleaned anyone, everything was humane. It was necessary to compensate for the losses. Hence such a selection.
— You worked in "Zora", "Sherandfand". These teams had ambitious goals. "Kryvbas" — not an exception?
— You answered your own question (smiles). I've always had ambitions. I also want Kryvbas to have these ambitions. But at the same time, it makes no sense to talk about any grandiose plans now, because we don't know what tomorrow will bring. There is a war in the country...
— Can the upcoming championship become the most unpredictable since independence?
— Once again, if a start is given, it will already be unpredictable only because now, once again, there is a war in Ukraine, in which Russian creatures are destroying our peaceful people, children.
And as for the sports component, it is certainly difficult to predict now how everything will turn out, since many quality legionnaires have left. The same "Shakhtar" lost almost all of its Brazilian performers. But I can understand guys who have families and worry about them. However, much respect to the foreigners who stayed and are preparing for the season. These footballers, in my opinion, love Ukraine with their hearts.
— How much will the level of our championship drop?
— There is no need to think about it now. Such is our life today. But Ukrainian athletes have always had character. And even in such a difficult time for the country, they can achieve results. That's it in football, I hope everything will work out for us, the main thing is to believe in the best.
Serhii DEMYANCHUK