Shakhtar general director - about Marino Pusic’s nomination for the position of head coach.

Previously, Donetsk Shakhtar announced the appointment of Marino Pusic as the head coach of the first team.

General Director of “Girniki” Sergey Palkin spoke about the decision to take care of the club and change the coaching staff.

“We would like to welcome Marino Pusic as the head coach of our team and wish him success, victories, trophies. On our side we support him as much as we can. Why did we praise such a decision Because the patients were wondering where we were going or not going, what kind of football we were showing or not showing. The vigor of football has influenced all nutrition, and the results are the same. We got the peace, we got to know. We knew at once. I’m not sure what’s wrong with Patrick’s coaching staff. No, we all got our peace. Already quickly corrected this mess and off we went. It’s our fault to look at this side and understand what’s underneath – the club. Any names, any planting, and the club and its results. Tom was praised for his decision. Maybe those people aren’t like that, maybe they’re too Swedish, maybe we were responsible for more than an hour, but we sat down, analyzed and decided that there’s no time. And if we screw it up, then we were praised for the right decision.

Why was Pusic taken We are, above all, impressed by Feenord. Because the football we played and played in is our football, our DNA, our philosophy.. We started to analyze Feinord’s work: who is behind it all, how everything works out. And if we have done this “home work”, then we realized that there is a coach who will work very, very hard for Feynord’s success, so that they play the kind of football that they demonstrate. And I respect that 50% of the robots that we receive today from Fenord are the robots of Marino Pusic. We analyzed his work before Feynord, when he was at AZ Alkmary, at Twente, and realized that he had made a huge contribution to the development of football in the Netherlands. He has been recognized many times as the shortest coach of the month, a rock coach, and has earned even more for football in the Netherlands. We got along with Marino and wondered what our coach was. And what we sensed from the new confirms our philosophy, our DNA, our system, which we will be. That's why, after a few years, we praised his decision and asked him to hire a head coach.

The first match went very well, because I studied the eyes of the players, I learned how they reacted, how they heard Marino’s word on the skin with great respect. From my own side I will say that for me, even the most vivid testimony, even the every word I uttered, reached the depths of the soul and heart of the football players. Therefore, after the sustria there are few overly positive emotions. And obviously, Marino only won. Thank you for everything, he won with our football - attacking football, with our philosophy. You can lose, you can lose, but it makes a difference how you lose. Also, since we are consistent with our philosophy and our football, I respect that you can come, and even more quickly,” Shakhtar’s official website quotes Palkin as saying.

It’s a good guess that Marino Pusic himself had previously announced his nomination to sack Shakhtar’s head coach..