Viktor Skrypnyk, now the former head coach of Vorskla Poltava, commented on his parting ways with the club and his choice in favour of Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.
Viktor Skrypnyk"I can remember these year and a half that I was at Vorskla with pleasure. We played in the European Cups. Under the conditions we had, our coaching staff built a fighting team.
But a coach always wants challenges. We talked to Vorskla's management and came to the conclusion that we should do this. It may be better for both Vorskla and me, no matter how paradoxical it may sound.
I had other offers, but I know the people who work at Metalist 1925 well. The key was that I did not want to stand aside from what was developing. I talked to the management and met the club's president, Vladimir Nosov. What I heard from him and realised that Metalist 1925 is an ambitious project, and such things attract me. You don't want to watch something develop somewhere else, but without you. This, one might say, was the key. I have never been afraid of challenges and I am not afraid of them. The harder it is, the more interesting it is. I always say this to the coaching staff and the players.
I was a little sorry to leave Vorskla, because now the team is in a position where, compared to last year, we are closer to the European Cups than we were then. We, or they, have reached the semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup. But we live in a time when you can't tell what will happen tomorrow. That's how the situation was. And then I was introduced to the management of Metalist 1925. They said the words that make any coach or employee happy.
At the same time, I know myself, I always give myself to my work. I want to develop and achieve the ambitious plans we discussed with the management. I want to live it so that when we look back, we can tell where we started and where we ended up. Why don't we become those people who will say: "Do you remember how we started our development? We had our lowest point, as Metalist 1925 did this year, when the team was on the verge of ceasing to exist. But then a new investor came in, we pushed back, a new coach came in and it went on and on."
It is not only an honour but also a desire to participate in this ambitious development. We don't just want to stay in the UPL and have the task of not being relegated again next year. If we want to build something, we need to get started," the official website of Metalist 1925 quotes Skrypnyk as saying.
