- Your academy is the best football school of the year. Does this mean a lot to you?
- I’m very restrained about that. The awarding ceremony took place after Dynamo defeated against Shakhtar, so I was in a bad mood. Anyway this award is a motivation to keep working even harder.
- You’ve been the head of Dynamo school for more than four years. What are your major achievements?
- I guess the most important change is that we’ve got young coaches. They’ve had a course and realized that they must broaden their knowledge all the time. Today we have young specialists, who want to help youngsters make headway and make progress as coaches.
- What can you say about work of new coaches?
- Coaches never stop learning. When Ihor Surkis hired me, we had a talk and decided that our football school must bring up both players and coaches. Today Serhiy Fedorov works for the first team, Ihor Kostiuk – for the youth team, Maksim Shatskikh – for Dynamo U-19. I see that they really want to upgrade their skills every day.
Svitlana Poliakova
Read full version of the interview in FC Dynamo Kyiv magazine new issue, #6 (89)
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