Former Spartak Moscow press officer Leonid Trakhtenberg spoke about the resentment of the club's ex-forward against ex-Dnipro and Dynamo Kyiv striker Oleg Protasov.
Oleg Protasov when he was a Dnipro player"Simonyan set a record by scoring 34 goals in one season (it was in 1950 - ed.). These were 34 laborious, suffered, pure goals of a great master. The record held for a long time, until it was broken by Dnipro forward Oleg Protasov (in 1985, the Ukrainian scored 35 goals per season in Dnipro - editor's note).
But there is a version that for this record Protasov scored with the apparent connivance of opponents. Nikita Palych is a very good-natured man, ready to forgive a lot. But even so, for some time he was offended by Protasov because of those goals. The world of soccer is big enough and small enough - if someone cheats soccer, it quickly comes out. For me personally, Nikita Palych is the record holder of our championships with 34 goals," - quotes Trakhtenberg "Championship".
