Ex-Shakhtar player Vyacheslav Shevchuk will work with youth teams.

Vyacheslav Shevchuk told that in the summer he will start coaching at the Academy of Miners. The former defender noted that he wants to work as head coach.

"We agreed with the club that I will start somewhere in the academy sometime in the summer. I do not know what age I will take, but I do not want to be an assistant - it's one hundred percent, "Shevchuk told on the air of the channel Football 1.

"Work as head coach in the first league? No problem.

But at the moment for me the priority is to work in the Academy of Miners. I there played all my life almost ".

"With the children, I will position myself as their oldest friend, comrade. I will negotiate with them. They must listen to me. I do not want them to shove, swear, it will be wrong. I want them to tell each other, to be friendly. I want to unite the team, "- added the future coach.

Let's remind that Shevchuk announced his retirement at the end of last year.