Sports director of Dnipro-1 Evgeny Krasnikov reacted to the accusations against him from the former president of Rukh Grigory Kozlovsky, which were made at his recent press conference.
Evgeny Krasnikov“As for Grisha Kozlovsky, I have known him for many years. We met in Kharkov: "Hi, hello, I'm Grisha - I'm Zhenya. I brought my son and I want him to play in your double." We talked, Markevich looked at the guy, for some time he was a double player, but he did not make it to the first team. Then we often talked with Kozlovsky, and then he "did not stink" from me. I was surprised when I heard public insults from him against myself and against the managers of other clubs.
First. He raised the issue of my disqualification, which I consider unfair. I have a court decision that confirms my innocence. But it seems that he forgot that he himself should have been suspended for life when he burst into the judges' room with machine guns and with his guards. The head of the FIFA refereeing committee, Pierluigi Collina, who then led the arbitration, demanded that Kozlovsky be banned from football for life. The second time he should have been suspended was when he insulted the referees of the match live with foul language.
Second. If he believes that in the Rukh-Dnepr-1 match there was bias on the part of the referee, then there are a lot of options to consider this match with independent experts, collect an independent commission and, based on their conclusion, draw conclusions about whether there was bias in this match refereeing or not.
They say that Metalist took a lot of penalties. But yesterday I looked at the statistics of the Rukh U-19 team - they scored nine (9) penalties in nine matches. I didn't have time to watch all the moments, but I paid attention to the penalty kick awarded to Veres U-19 with the score 0:0 at 90+4 minutes. My opinion is that there was no penalty there. And if Kozlovsky and Dedyshin are so honest and correct, then why didn’t they raise a scandal?
By the way, in the U-19 team, which they boast about so much, there are a maximum of 1 or 2 pupils of Rukh. All the other guys are mostly pupils of Karpaty and other schools, which they successfully sell. An example is the transition of Sych to the Belgian Kortrijk.
By the way, Rukh U-19 getting into the UEFA Youth League was accompanied by a big scandal. In connection with the war, the UAF executive committee stopped all competitions, and at that time the Dynamo U-19 team was in first place. But the Rukh U-19 team had two games in hand.
A year ago, there was a similar situation, only related to the coronavirus. "Shakhtar U-19" had a game in hand and, given the lost points, could overtake Dynamo U-19, but the executive committee decided to leave the table unchanged. This season the situation repeated itself, only instead of "Shakhtar U-19" was " Rukh U-19", who began calling all the clubs and by voting it was decided to finish these matches. At that time I worked in Metalist, I had doubts for a long time, but supported Rukh.
Since the players were dismissed, Kolos U-19 and Ingulets U-19 brought weakened squads, Rukh U-19 won easy victories and became the champion.
There is a saying here: “We see a speck in someone else’s eye, but we don’t notice a log in our own.”
Regarding Kozlovsky’s instructions to the management of the Dnepr-1 SC to dismiss me from the club, I will not comment. If the president and the CEO deem it necessary, they themselves will answer these statements to Rukh fan Kozlovsky.
“I don’t know what goals they are pursuing, but it seems to me that this is a pure “order” declared by the “revolutionary” Kozlovsky from a Spanish or Italian restaurant, planned against the leadership of the UAF in order to seize control of Ukrainian football,” Krasnikov said.
