Former head coach of the Russian national football team Leonid Slutsky commented on the conflict between the current coach of the team Valery Karpin and striker Artem Dziuba. He spoke about this in an interview with journalist and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, published on YouTube.
Slutsky explained Karpin’s refusal to call Dziuba into the team by building a new game model. “If he sees his game model without the player of Dzyuba’s plan, then he is doing everything right. If Artyom as a model can be used in some schemes, then here we can no longer say whether it is right or wrong. It’s just a fact, ”he said.
At the same time, Slutsky called Dziuba a man who “can be trusted to raise the fallen banner.” “But if suddenly you don’t count on him, he will use all this enormous creative force for destruction. And this is an involuntary reaction, that is, he does not want to do this, ”added the ex-coach of the team.
Earlier, Karpin said that he put an end to the issue of not calling Artem Dziuba into the team. He stressed that he does not intend to answer any more questions on this topic.
In September, Dziuba himself refused to be called up to the national team for the October qualifying matches. The forward motivated this by the fact that he was not in optimal shape for this.
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