The arrival of Pushich to Shakhtar at the start was extremely successful. The coach did not hide from responsibility and sat on the bench for a few hours after appointment. And not in some ordinary duel, but in the Champions League match against Barcelona and even at the exit. The Miners lost that game, but with a decent score – 1: 2, and in two weeks in the nominally home arena, in general, caused the Catalans of sensational defeat – 1: 0.
Soon, his wards began to publicly speak in the captured tones. For example, one of the leaders of the team Georgy Sudakov, who expressed a very ambiguous, but extremely frank opinion: “This is a good and positive person. By the ideas he gave us in 15 minutes, we understood his football style. For 15 minutes, they understood more than three months before. I hope we have a very good way in front of us. We believe in it. The players have a full trust in a new trainer. ”
It is clear that these words Sudakov, obviously, wanted not only to like his new direct boss, but also to touch the former boss – the Dutch Patrick Van Leuven, whose approach to the training process, he was rumored, caused the rejection of a number of miners.
Shakhtar managed to remedy the situation with Pushich and won the Ukrainian Championship 2023/24. Moreover, the Miners published a 15-match winning series in the League during that season, which largely helped them to win “golden” awards. It was the moment of the triumph of both Pushich and Sports Director of the Donetsk Club Dario Srna, who, as he was rumored in the sidelines, insisted on the invitation to the camp “Orange-Black” Bosnian mentor.
However, immediately after the end of the season-2023/24, in the expert environment in some places, but there was an opinion that the triumph of Shakhtar is not only the merit of Pushich. In part, that success was the fruit of the work performed by Patrick Van Leuven’s headquarters, who at the summer meeting, let him drive his wards, but thus laid the team an excellent basis for physical training, without which all further successes were likely to be impossible.
The plausibility of this version was already demonstrated by the 20124/25 season, in which Shakhtar looked like a pale shadow of himself. Marino Pushich’s team this time not only failed to impose a real struggle for the championship, but for the first time in the presidency at Rinat Akhmetov’s club, she managed to finish the top-2 in the final standings, giving a chance to grasp Rus.
Last season, in addition to frankly unsuccessful results, Shakhtar was also remembered by the fact that his players (especially those who are not called in national teams, which are almost all legionnaires, at least Brazilians) have repeatedly received a long weekend from Marino Pushich. Sometimes it was a weekly “feedback” and even a little more. While the Collections went to national teams, the rest simply lived in their pleasure. All, starting with Marino Pushich himself.
The payment for this attitude to the case, in fact, came to the Bosnian coach at the finish line. Pushich, whose contract with Shakhtar was designed before the end of the season-2025/26, was “asked from the club”, and a new coach of “Miners” was appointed young and ambitious Turk Ard Turan, who in the summer at the meeting was again recalled by many of Patrick Van Leuven, but whose methods were not over.
Getty Images. Marino Pushich and Georgy Sudakov As for Pushich, now it ends for the third month, as Marino sits in the status of unemployed. The coach, who triumphantly won his first season in UPL, and also beat Barcelona in the Champions League, suddenly turned out to be no one needed. Moreover, for the first time in the last ten years, Pushich’s professional career has generally a pause associated with lack of work.
Marino Pushich began coaching in 2010. Initially, the Bosnian worked with the juniors and then retrained to the head coach in adult teams. In the summer of 2015, Pushich left the headquarters of the Azerbaijani cache (now this club has a different name-shamaks), after which he was unemployed for four months until he received an invitation from Twinte. Further in Marino’s career there was no unemployment at all. In Twinte, he soon grew to the level of the head coach of the first team, from which in May 2019 he was fired, but in July began work at the headquarters, where he remained until early February 2021. Leaving the Alkmar Bosnian club was forced for the same reason that his boss was Arne Slot. Both of them have already agreed on the details of the contract with the Figenord, where they had to move with the beginning of the new season, which is why the heads of the AZ decided that experts were no longer concentrated properly on fulfilling their obligations and saying goodbye to them in advance.
Formally, Pushich was out of work for five months, but legally he had a new contract, so this period can simply be considered a forced downtime or a pause necessary to “restart the batteries”.
Directly from Faeyerda Pushich and went to the miner. After that, the whole story we have briefly translated above. And now Marino has never been able to find a work in the off -season, which is a certain indicator of its level. As a rule, top experts rarely come to teams during the season. They prefer to hold a full meeting, a transfer campaign, and then take up the business, not act as “firefighters”. It is obvious that during working with a slot in Figayerd and Independent work in miners Marino Pushich to this level has not grown, because still remains with nothing …
What is symptomatic: there are no special rumors in the press about the interest in Pushich’s services by a club. The only news of this summer, connected with the ex-coach of Shakhtar, testified that Marino’s candidacy was considered by Bosnian Sarajevo bosses, but there were eventually decided not to start cooperation with, as the press gave it, “the winner of Barcelona”, and was inclined in favor of 64-year-old.
As for Pushich, he still sits without work. His former headquarters in the miner gradually begins to disperse with other clubs. For example, since June, a young Jerun Schpens, who is now a head coach’s assistant in this team, has received a position in the Dutch Herenven.
There is no invitation in Marino already from ex-boss Arne Slot, who some time ago, when Pushich was in miners, he offered his former helper to move to The Red Camp and become his assistant already on Endfield. But then the Bosnian refused, wishing to stay at the head of the Miners …
By the way, the appointment to Bosnia, in Sarajevo, according to rumors, was a very desirable option for Pushich. To work in this modest pan-European standards, the Marino team was ready to be closer to her son-Noa, who was literally recently presented as a newcomer of Borats from Bana-Luki. However, as we can see, a specialist who “gave Sudakov more than three months before,” has been sitting unemployed for the same three months. And there is a feeling that this situation is unlikely to move out of the dead point in the near future. However, we will monitor and check …
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