Football. ua analyzes what happened between the president of the UAF and the former head coach of the national team of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko.
After a good result at Euro 2020, none of the Ukrainian fans and experts had such a thought that Andriy Shevchenko would not continue to work with the national team..
In fact, everything turned out completely differently.. On August 1, head coach Andriy Shevchenko announced in his instagram that his contract with the national team was completed and thanked the UAF and its president for five years of cooperation.
View this publication on Instagram Publication from Andriy Shevchenko (@andriyshevchenko) A month later, Andrey Nikolaevich decided to gather journalists and tell his version of what happened.
The UAF, which had not previously commented on the change of the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, in the person of General Secretary Yuriy Zapisotskiy voiced its position.
It is in the words of Yuri Zapisotsky that " Now let's try to explain our subjective point of view..
To begin with, let's say that the UAF did not consider anyone other than Andriy Shevchenko for the post of head coach of the Ukrainian national team.. The search for a specialist for this post was so sudden for the UAF that every day we received information about new possible coaches for the national team.. Moreover, it is necessary to understand that if before the Euro, President Pavelko had made a decision to change the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, then Sergei Rebrov would not have signed a contract with Al-Ain, but simply would have been on standby.
According to Andriy Shevchenko, he had contact with Andriy Pavelko after the Euro, where the president of the UAF announced that he was not yet ready to discuss the issue of extending the contract. Then Andrei Nikolaevich said that there was another meeting with Andrei Vasilievich in London, where they did not discuss the issue of his future. Somewhere here, the former head coach of the national team is cunning and clearly does not say something. Surely, in personal communication, something happened, because of which no further action on the renewal of the contract happened..
Our version of what happened is trivial - we did not agree on the money! Although this moment was denied both in the UAF, and Andrei Nikolaevich himself. Let's go back to the words of Yuri Zapisotsky. The UAF Secretary General says that Shevchenko had a contract until July 30 and the UAF had the opportunity to extend it until the end of 2022. Instead, we were shown a fax where the UAF invited Andrei Nikolaevich to negotiations in early August. Yuri Zapisotsky spoke fluently and, as expected, difficult, so that not so much could be understood from his words. But if it were not for money, then Shevchenko would have made an offer even before July 30 to simply extend the contract on the same terms.. If he is invited to the House of Football after the expiration of the current contract, then this means only one thing - his name is to discuss the contract on new terms..
The same Yuri Zapisotsky then directly says:.
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It turns out that the UAF wanted to play it safe. The expenditures on the national team's coaching staff are quite large and President Andriy Pavelko considered that if the team did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup, the UAF would not get a lot of money, and the salaries of the coaching staff of Andriy Shevchenko would form a huge budget deficit. Therefore, the UAF did not want to renew contracts on the old conditions, but wanted to discuss new ones, where the coaching staff, due to bonuses, would receive everything that they received before, but only if they got to the 2022 World Cup, otherwise their remuneration would be much lower.
It is quite possible to imagine a situation where Andrei Nikolaevich, who believes that after Euro 2020, the UAF should pray for him and carry him in his arms, simply refused to discuss other terms of the contract and then the parties stopped looking in the same direction.
Again, we emphasize that this version of what is happening is just an assumption of the author, who drew his own conclusions after hearing the words of both sides.! There is simply no other logical explanation for what happened.
Sergey Gorbachenko, Football. ua Author: Sergey Gorbachenko.