Cyril Nesterenko, screenshot June 28 2025, 13:00

The newly arrived head coach of Alexandria Kirill Nesterenko commented on the first period in the team, which has already started preparation for the start of the new season.

“First of all, there was a conversation between management and me. We took steps towards each other and solved all our issues in the process of dialogue. And so they made such a decision, it happened very quickly.

I was attracted to stability, a clear construction of the management of what they see in the development of the team. And our views on football and the development of the club are very similar. We are all agreed within one day. There was a dialogue, after which the dialogue remains only to decide. We decided that the parties wanted to work with each other, and we agreed on the terms of the contract very quickly. This question was not at all as basic.

In general, the atmosphere is very cool. I understand that the club as a whole after last year is on the wave of euphoria. First of all, I immediately notice that in general the whole club Alexandria and the city is one common family, it is felt immediately. The first week I look more, I get acquainted. For me, this is more informative now.

Starting eleven on the first sparring at the meeting? This issue is always open from match to match. But now we need everyone to give a chance to implement ourselves in current conditions with a new coaching staff under our conditions. But the decisions will still be ahead, we still have to wait.

There was now the retraction period. We got acquainted with the team closer, in general details we expressed what we want from players first. The team had to return their physical qualities, which were lost during leave. There is already an understanding of what we need, but we will draw some more global conclusions a little later when we already have friendly matches, and after them we will already work more specifically on what we need, what positions.

The strengthening will be point in positions. Because you understand that a lot of players left the team. Once again I will repeat: now you need to look at the players who are left in the team, to give them the opportunity to express themselves.

Task for the team for the season? A very clear task is the development of young people, the identity in organizing the game, the style of Alexandria, to go out every game and to win, to maximize strive to take the result.

Of course, changes in the team will be. This is the identity of every coach, each coach looks at the game in his own way. But I will say that compared to the last season, we also seek to be a dominant team, a team that will seek to impose on the enemy’s conditions for the game and control the game, play more with the ball and aggressively in the defensive stage, “-the club’s press service said.

Earlier it was reported that Shabanov left Alexandria and replenished the composition of Metalist in 1925.