Became known best coach of the Ukrainian Premier League in 2017.

According to the official website of the UPL, he became the coach of the Donetsk "Olympic" Roman Sanzhar, who outstripped the coaches of the Donetsk "Shakhtar" and Luhansk "Dawn" Paul Fonsec and Yuri Vernidub, respectively.

It should be noted that now "Olympic" takes the 6th place in the championship, having in its credit 25 points. In addition, the Donetsk team for the first time in history managed to qualify for the European League, where they stopped at the stage 3 qualifying round.

4 and 5 places in the vote were taken by Vladimir Sharan ("Alexandria") and Alexander Khatskevich ("Dynamo").