Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Alexander Zubkov recalled a segment of his career at the Hungarian Ferenváros, from which he moved to the Pitmen's camp at the beginning of the current season.
Alexander Zubkov“While Sergey Rebrov worked with Ferencváros, everything was fine, everything was gorgeous. We had the Champions League, there were achievements in the national championship. The results speak for themselves.
Yes, we were able to score only 1 point in the Champions League group stage, but this is the Champions League. At that time, it was very difficult for us to claim something more, but the team was striving for progress, it was growing. You can remember our game in Kyiv with Dynamo, when at 10 degrees below zero there was an absolutely equal game. And its outcome was decided by one standard.
Residue from performances in Hungary? No, no sediment. In Ferencváros, I can say for the first time I felt what European cups are. In my first season in the team, we performed well in the Europa League. We, in my opinion, lacked one point to leave the group in the 1/16 finals.
Then I felt what the Champions League is, where there was the Camp Nou, where there were matches with Juventus and Dynamo Kyiv. Then there was the Europa League group again, along with Celtic and Bayer Leverkusen. So, I had three years in European competitions, there was a rather interesting Hungarian championship.
I think that I managed to spend a good stage of my career at Ferencváros. I will always be grateful to Sergei Stanislavovich Rebrov for inviting me there. But now I have already turned that page in my career, returned home and together with Shakhtar I am writing a new history of the club," Zubkov quotes "Sport.ua".
