Former Shakhtar massage therapist Viktor Hexan talked about the events of 11 years ago, when the head coach of the "Miners" Mircea Lucescu almost got into a fight with the young Brazilian Douglas Costa.
It is about events during the group stage of the Champions League of the 2011/12 season. Shakhtar then finished last in the group with just one win in six matches. Porto, APOEL and Zenit were in the group with the Miners.
Hexan shared his memories of the atmosphere in Shakhtar's dressing room after the narrow defeat against Zenit.
"At one time we played with Zenit. They beat us 1-0, but we played very poorly. Lucescu was black with anger, he entered the dressing room and saw Costa, who was just a disaster in this match, but he was cheerful and singing in his heart.
This behavior of the 21-year-old Brazilian angered the Shakhtar coach even more.
Mircea scolded him: "Are you still singing after such a disastrous match?". He rushed to hit Lucescu, and Mircea wanted to hit him back. Fortunately, I was between them with my assistant Spyridon, and we separated them," Hexan said in an interview with GSP.