Football journalist Roman Bebekh commented on the situation around the coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Petrakov:
Roman Bebekh“Before drawing any conclusions, I would like Petrakov to propose some kind of action plan - what does he want to do with all this, how to develop football, where are we going in general, what kind of football do we want to play?
Shevchenko at one time proposed reforming the entire sector of youth teams up to the first team. Unfortunately, this reform, for unknown reasons, was not carried out to the end. But at least there was such an idea. Here it is interesting to hear from Petrakov what he wants to offer.
Ideally, I would like Sergei Rebrov to lead the national team. But it always happens that the national team needs a coach Rebrov under the contract, but when Rebrov was free, there was a coach in the national team, it was the same with Shevchenko and Petrakov.
Now Rebrov is the strongest Ukrainian coach who has already shown himself in Ukraine and abroad. He has a good staff, he has experience and he has insane diligence, he is ready to work for the result. But now he is busy, and we don't know how to combine it all.
Which of the coaches is now ready to enter [the Ukrainian national team], knowing that there, somewhere not far away, Rebrov is standing? All top head coaches are busy now. We really have a problem with coaches. There is not such a large personnel potential among mentors in our country. Perhaps the federation will consider the conditional Rotan, who gave the result and now everything is cool with him. But here, too, there are many questions, including the lack of experience.
The most important thing for me is the action plan that the coach will offer. For example, I commented on the Luxembourg-Turkey (0:2) match, this is Division C of the League of Nations, in terms of the game they have gone much further than the Ukrainian team. We need to reform all of football, because the national team is just the cover.
Markevich, and not Petrakov, would have been the coach of the national team if he had behaved more calmly. He then got a little emotional, gave an interview. He did not want to work with the understanding that he had come for a short time. He wanted a contract for two years, with a full cycle, but this was not offered to him. With his experience, he is a figure who should really qualify for this position. But you need to understand that he did not have coaching game practice for a long time.
Now I think that Markevich is unlikely to be considered. Although Pavelko is a very skillful politician who can turn everything in favor of Markevich. But Miron Bogdanovich will not visit for a year. He will say: “Give me a cycle, as Shevchenko was given out.” But he needs to be considered as a candidate, he deserves it," Bebeh said.
