““Beautiful coach”: Dnipro legend recalled how Protasov allowed players to drink wine and beer the day before the game January 17, 19:36 Share: Oleg Protasov (Photo: FC Dnipro) Former Dnipro midfielder Oleksandr Hrytsai talked about what changed when the team was led by Oleg Protasov, a former player of Dynamo and the national team of Ukraine. Read also: “Moving to Shakhtar was a mistake.” The footballer-blogger regrets that he left Dnipro before the 2015 Europa League final “About Oleg”, — write on: ua.news
Oleg Protasov (Photo: FC Dnipro)
Former Dnipro midfielder Oleksandr Hrytsai talked about what changed when Oleg Protasov, former player of Dynamo and the Ukrainian national team, led the team.
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“I can only say positive things about Oleh Valeriyovych: he is an excellent specialist and coach, a good person.
Of course, we understood who came and that it was a coach with a capital letter. In addition, he worked in Olympiakos and won the local championship there, played in the Champions League. At that time, it was not so easy to invite a coach from the European Championship to us.
Everything became more European. Starting with food, where he cleaned the home kitchen, they began to eat more in the dining room, to eat salads. The training process has changed, along with it came the coaching staff from Greece.
More time was devoted to tactics, they switched to four defenders in a line, although before that they played with the last defender. Removed check-ins – they started checking in a day before the match, instead of two, as before.
Allowed to drink beer and wine the day before the game, but that everything should be in moderation, to rest before the game. He brought a European mentality to the team,” Hrytsai said in an interview with Ukrainian Football.
Oleksandr Hrytsai played for Dnipro in 2000-2008. In total, he played 196 games, in which he scored four goals.
In 2005, the Dnipro club was headed by Oleg Protasov. Under his leadership, the team took 6th place in the championship in 2005/06 and 4th in the following season. And in the 2007/08 championship, Dnipro fought to the last for medals, but again failed to take 3rd place under the leadership of Protasov.
After leaving Dnipro in 2008, he worked as a coach in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Greece and Romania.
Earlier we wrote that the 73-year-old coach of Dovbyk admitted when he will end his career.