Minaya president: "When the war started, there were thoughts of disbanding the club"

Minaya president Valeriy Peresolyak has admitted that he was thinking of dissolving the club at the beginning of 2022.

"When the war started, there were certain problems and difficulties. Keeping a football club is not an easy job at all, and here it became even more difficult, because business was a little bit destroyed, somewhere something started to be blocked.

I had the idea to give up keeping the team - to disband and do children's football, so that the main team would not be there. But my youngest son, who was 5 years old at the time, loves football. He sleeps with these balls, there is a small football stadium at home - there are 17 balls lying there. My son heard that I have an idea to disband our main professional team, he came to me and says: "Dad, I would really like to keep our team".

I start listing the terms to him, saying that if we keep the football club, we could lose this, this and this in a year. He looks at me and says, "No, football." So I wanted to encourage him with something, important serious things, but he said let football stay.

Of course, we limited the budget of the football club, and little by little we made it through the year. With difficulties, but the result is the best", - said Peresolyak on air Youtube channel Football manager.