Nadezhda Navrotskaia, the former wife of Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, spoke about the liberties that Brazilian legionnaires of Donetsk Shakhtar allowed themselves at that time when Mircea Lucescu was the head coach of this team.
Mircea Lucescu“Tymoshchuk had a hard time with Lucescu. In the sense that he recruited all kinds of Brazilians. Sometimes they even brought someone by mistake. They were supposed to buy some conditional Brazilian Nikolai, but they sold them another Nikolai with the same name.
The Brazilians could express dissatisfaction and outrage during training. They spoke to Lucescu in raised voices, could send him away, he couldn’t handle them. The Brazilians were constantly noisy, could “have a drink” during night outings. The coaches, for some reason, turned a blind eye to this,” — Navrotskaia’s words are quoted by Blik.
