Legendary Dynamo Kyiv player Jozsef Szabo commented on a recent statement made by a former Spartak Moscow employee regarding another Dynamo legend, Leonid Buriak.
Jozef SzaboIn an interview with Russian media, former Spartak press attaché Leonid Trakhtenberg said the following about Buryak: "Leonid Buriak said that it was not difficult for him to adjust in the national team under Beskov, because he enjoyed this Spartak football. He said that he could play like that until he was 40."
This is what Jozsef Szabo said.
"Yes, Buriak could have played at Spartak until he was 40, because they had a much slower team, which was physically inferior to Dynamo. "Dynamo was much faster. Although Spartak was strong and good at the time, with technical players, it was still inferior to Dynamo.
Buryak is a great midfielder, with a shot and vision of the field, but I don't think he could have played for a long time in Lobanovsky's Dynamo, because Valeriy Vasylovych's workload was very heavy. His body could not withstand them for a long time, so there were a lot of injuries.
As for Spartak, the players there were all technical and the football was built on ball control. I can't say that Spartak was great. "Lobanovsky's Dynamo beat everyone in their best years. It was the best team in Europe.
And don't forget about the refereeing, which dragged Spartak down. And not only by the ears, but also by the dick. No matter what you did and how you played, and at the end of the championship you look - Spartak is in first place! Former Baku referee Tofik Bahramov once said: "We need Spartak! They are the number 1 team and everyone is rooting for them." That was the attitude," Sabo said.
Andriy Piskun
