Mauricio: "Lucescu turned out to be a very strange coach..."

The ex-midfielder of the Russian "Zenith" Mauricio spoke about the joint work in his former team under the leadership of the Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu, who, as you know, now heads the Kiev "Dynamo".

“André Villas-Boas left behind a top line-up. But Lucescu turned out to be a very strange coach. pursued his goals. Mircea changed almost the entire team, he was in conflict with many.

He was already many years old then, and some of his ideas were conservative: you can’t talk a lot, you can’t express your opinion. “I know everything, and you have to do what I say,” something like that.

Plus, Lucescu was unfair with Miguel Danny. He is a legend of Russian football. And Mircea took the captain's armband from him and put him on the bench. Lucescu was too selfish. Largely due to all these internal problems, we did not become champions that season, ”Sport24 quoted Mauricio as saying.

Recall that Lucescu headed Zenit from 2016 to 2017.