The captain of Metalist 1925 Kharkiv Artem Gabelok recalled working under the guidance of the former head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Petrakov, with whom he crossed paths in the youth teams.
Artem Gabelok- If Kriventsov is a fanatic and tactician, then Petrakov is the soul. I have never had so many funny stories and "humps" with any coach.
- Tell me at least one.
- That's the thing, there is something to remember, but nothing to tell. All these stories are out of print (laughs). I can say that, in theory, Vasilyevich could “cram” the offender so much that the whole team was lying with laughter.
We followed him, wrote them down in notebooks and then told all these stories to our friends. With a sense of humor, Petrakov is in perfect order. This is his horse.
- Don't you think that Petrakov did not say his last word in the Ukrainian national team and he could still benefit her?
- On the one hand, they treated him ugly. On the other hand, there was no result. But after all, it was wrong to part with Sheva. It seems to me that this is a UAF chip. We have only one coach who can coach the club, youth and national teams.
As for Petrakov, he squeezed the maximum out of our team, and in Armenia, as far as I know, everything is fine with him (Petrakov was recently appointed as the head coach of the Armenian national team - ed.). You don't have to worry about him (laughs). In Armenia, there will still be legends about him.
