Former head coach of Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team Jozsef Szabo commented on the news of Dario Srna's appointment as acting head coach of Shakhtar Donetsk.
Jozsef Szabo"It will be extremely difficult for Srna. It will be very difficult for him! I know him well. He was a great footballer. He has a good relationship with Akhmetov (Rinat Akhmetov, Shakhtar's president - ed.), he is a well-deserved person at the club. But to be the head coach, especially when there are two games against Barcelona...
I'm afraid for this team. To be a coach of such a team and participate in the Champions League, you still need to learn. Not only how to play in a particular match, but a coach has to learn a lot. You need to be a good psychologist - you need to pat one on the head, scold another. What kind of workload to give - it's all for a reason.
I am very surprised by van Leeuwen's resignation. I don't understand who is doing this and who makes such decisions at Shakhtar. Although they wrote and said that only Akhmetov could fire him. I didn't understand when Jovicevic was fired, because he was working hard. He knew the language, he was a great specialist, and the team played well, and suddenly he was fired. I still don't know why it happened.
A person came in and he was dismissed from Zorya. What was he promised? But the team didn't play. Many people said that he gave the players a lot of workload. Probably, he could have overloaded the players to get them to the Champions League. In the first half against Antwerp, Shakhtar were not on the pitch, and in the second half they played a masterpiece. Although we must not forget that the opponent simply stopped and thought that they would not lose the 2-0 lead," Sabo said in a commentary for the UPL TV telegram channel.
