The former head coach of ‘Shakhtar’ Mircea Lucescu, who also worked at Kyiv’s ‘Dynamo’, spoke about his coaching career period at the Donetsk club.
Mircea Lucescu“That ‘Shakhtar’ was an example for all of Europe. The club president wanted spectacular football and the return of people to the stadium. I told him: ‘There is only one way to make football spectacular — buy Brazilians. And I will take care of their growth.’
The first one we signed was Matuzalem from ‘Brescia’. Then all the others came, and our winning cycle began. We won a lot in Ukraine, and people returned to fill ‘Donbass Arena’ — the most beautiful stadium I have seen in the world. Unfortunately, it has been destroyed today. We brought money, success, and enthusiasm with this project, which then became exemplary,” Lucescu is quoted by the portal Cronachedispogliatoio.it.
