Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Lokomotiv appoint Krasnozhan - OFFICIAL


At long last, the appointment was made official. Yury Krasnozhan is our new head coach. The former Spartak Nalchik head coach, who will start his Loko adventure on December 20, signed a two year contract.

Moments later, the new head coach was presented to the media and Yury Krasnozhan had the opportunity to answer several questions posed by the journalists present at the press conference. First and foremost, Yury Krasnozhan made it clear that he is not afraid of his new (bigger) responsibilites and at the end it wasn't difficult to him to accept the post offered by Olga Smorodskaya. He also stated that his main task will be that of bringing some stability to the club. Krasnozhan continued by outlining the fact that in the upcoming days he will determine those positions at which Lokomotiv needs reinforcement.

He added that Semin disciples Vladimir Maminov, Oleg Pashinin and Igor Cherevchenko will be part of coaching staff. In addition to those, Eugene Stukalov and Vladimir Kulaev are exptected to join the aforementioned from Spartak Nalchik. The 47-year old ended the conference by talking about his relationship with the players currently present at the club. He stated that no one ever played under his leadership and thus he is looking forward to get acquainted with each player in person, rather than by phone. Not a bad cameo at all!!


Yury Krasnozhan was born on June 2007, in Nalchik. Yury, a defensive minded player by trade started his football playing career with Spartak Nalchik and over a period of 4 years he managed to rack up 66 appearances and scoring 1 goal in the process. Following his stint at Spartak, Yury graduated at the Faculty of Physical Education and for the next 5 years he worked as a physical educator at a secondary school in Nalchik. In 1991 he returned to footall and signed for FC Avtozapchast Baksan. After making 88 appearances and scoring 6 goals, Yury retired and soon after Yury made way into management and was appointed assistant manager of the same Baksan outfit. After two years, Yury returned back home and after managing Spartak Nalchik reserves and acting as assistant manager, Yury was finally appointed Spartak's Nalchik manager at the begininning of 2004. Despite limited funds, Yury managed to lead the modest club to the Premier League and beat suffecient drops. This year, Yury went a step further and managed to lead Spartak Nalchik to a record 6th place.
ALL THE BEST YURY!!

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