He’s told us about peculiarities of his work, process of players’ recovery etc.
- There are three physical trainers in the main squad: Jesus Pinedo, Vitaliy Kulyba and I. We all do the same business, but personally I’m focused on injured players, who’ve already recovered, but still cant work with the team.
- That’s been you specialty since 1995. When did you start working with professional teams?
- For example, in Hajduk I was a physical trainer for the whole team while another specialist was in charge of players’ rehabilitation. One person can’t deal with all that. There are 25 performers in a team and each needs attention.
- Okay, let the general number of players be 25. How many of them need rehabilitation?
- We always have work. Football is impossible without injuries. When the season is on I work with one-four players.
- Sometimes Dynamo players have surgeries in European clinics and stay there for rehabilitation. What’s the attitude of the club to that?
- Players discuss that with direction of the club. I can only say they don’t pay so much attention to patients in clinics as we do. For example, Teodorczyk had rehabilitation in Poland, but when he came back he wasn’t ready to work.
Dmytro Shapoval, FC Dynamo Kyiv magazine
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