“The second time I had a conflict with a Brazilian, with Douglas Costa. We played a match with Zenit, lost 0:1 (obviously, we are talking about the match of the group stage of the 2011/12 Champions League, in which the Miners failed, taking the last place in the quartet with Cypriot APOEL, Zenit and Porto – ed.), and after the game the players, many of whom were 19-20 year olds, laughed and joked… I was very angry. I went up to them and said: “Guys, did you win?” And here he is [Дуглас Коста] adopted a boxing stance, turned his fists towards me.”
“It seems that he was afraid that I would do something to him, so I distanced myself, and the next day I talked to him and said that it was my fault, because at such a moment I should not have reacted like that. I told him: it is very easy for me to send you to the second team and leave you there for an hour, but I will not do this, because I will do it against football. Douglas Costa was very talented,” Lucescu said.
Earlier, Lucescu was surprised by the fact that he called the ex-protégé of Galatasaray and Beşiktaş the most talented football player among those with whom he managed to work.
Source: sport.ua