TaToTake host Mikhail Spivakovsky shared his views on the future head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Petrakov.
Alexander Petrakov. Photo: gettyimages.com“I believe that if Petrakov is fired from the post of head coach of the Ukrainian national team, then this will not be the end of his career. According to my information, even if Petrakov is not the head coach of the national team from January 2023, he is very likely to get a job in youth teams.
Petrakov is a person who has not shown himself at the club level, he is not very sharpened for such a mode of work. Alexander Vasilievich - national team coach. If we dive a little into the history of his work in the UAF (then FFU), then I will say that many times he was close to being fired.
He was close to leaving not because of the results - on the contrary, the results helped him stay in office. I know almost for sure that if Petrakov had lost in the semi-final of the 2019 Youth World Cup to Italy (which would have been understandable) or, God forbid, lost to the Koreans in the final, then perhaps his career at a serious level would have ended even then.
Petrakov is a person who always understood that only the result should help him stay in his position and move forward. This is a person who is simply accustomed, being on the edge, on the verge of his capabilities, to gnaw out, squeeze out the result in all force majeure circumstances.
If the Ukrainian team had not lost to Wales in the playoffs for the 2022 World Cup or Scotland in the League of Nations, we would not be raising the issue of Petrakov's resignation now. But it so happened that for the first time in his career, Alexander Vasilyevich lost two important matches almost in a row.
It seems to me that this is a sign of fate, indicating to our association that we need to move in some other direction, as regards the prospects for the entire institution of national teams,” Spivakovsky said.
