Oleg Shandruk: “The success of the Ukrainian national team at the 2006 World Cup is the result of the collaboration of two speci

The head coach of Rovno’s Veres Oleg Shandruk named the main prerequisite for the greatest success in the history of the Ukrainian national team—the advancement to the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup.

Andriy Bali and Oleg Blokhin (photo: odessa-sport.info)

— I think that the success in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup is the result of the collaboration of two absolutely different specialists—Bali and Blokhin. It was this collaboration that yielded such a result. I would call Oleg Blokhin’s style mild authoritarianism. And Andriy Bali is a liberal person. The combination of these two individuals maintained a golden mean. This allowed us to achieve such results, — Shandruk is confident.