« Torch » appointed head coach Igor Shalimov
The last time the country’s championship last autumn and the victim in the championship, the torch, quickly found the replacement of the replacement of Dmitry Pyatbratov, which was in a row in a row. The liberated post was taken by Igor Shalimov, whose biography of the player, in which there was even the status of a star of European football, much brighter than coaching. Already in a new role in the new role of Shalimov’s meeting, the most difficult test awaits: in the nearest tour, the Voronezh club will have to play with a competitor in the struggle for Akhmat survival in terms of empty due to the recent racist incident and stands.
Voronezh Tornezh announced On the appointment of the head coach of Igor Shalimov. 56-year-old Shalimov will take a position that was released last weekend, when immediately after the crushing-0: 5-defeat of the team in the 22nd round of the Russian championship from the leading in the Krasnodar tournament resigned was sent Dmitry Pyatobratov.
Igor Shalimov is already the third mentor of “torch” in the course of this season.
He began him with Igor CherevchenkoHowever, he was fired in August last year, at the starting segment of the championship. The post went to the Voronezh headquarters for a long time Pyatratratovwhose departure did not surprise anyone because of what was happening with the team. Even given the fact that the financial and personnel capabilities of the “torch” are considered extremely modest by the standards of the highest domestic division (according to Transfermarkt, so cheap-€ 13.05 million-not a single club of the Russian Premier League (RPL)), its results still look extremely bad.
The Voronezh residents won the last at the moment in the championship in mid-October 2024, back in the 12th round, having overcome Akhmat. The match with Krasnodar was for them the sixth in a row without a single goal scored, defeat was the fifth. Before this series, the chances of “torch” to survive in the RPL seemed to be quite real. Now his position is extremely complicated. The club, which was held in the “butt matches” zone, sank into the “direct departure zone”, to the 15th line in the table. Below only Orenburg, lagging behind only three points. And the opportunity to survive in the elite, the 14th position, is already five points from the “torch”.
Pulling the “torch” from the bottom invited a person with a rich football biography. True, its first half is radically different from the second.
Igor Shalimov at the end of the previous century was one of the most famous and most sought -after Russian football players with the status of an actually full -fledged star.
He happened to play in the leading European championships, and for several seasons in the 1990s, Shalimov played for the Milan Inter.
However, his coaching background is much more modest. Of the clubs that are sonorous brands, he got only Krasnodar. And then in 2016, he was not yet included in the list of unconditional grads of Russian football. Krasnodar was the only club in the coaching career of Igor Shalimov, which he headed a more or less long period. At the top of his coaching hierarchy, he stayed a year and a half. Guiding other teams – “Khimki”, “Akhmat” and “Urals”, Shalimov every time convinced how screaming a credit of trust in coaches in Russia. The period of his stay in each of these clubs did not reach at least until the full year.
In RPL, Igor Shalimov returned after a long pause. More than two and a half years passed from dismissal from Ural in August 2022 after a series of losses to invitation to the torch. And the Voronezh appointment is made primarily, first of all, his timing makes.
Shalimov appeared in the “torch” right in front, quite possibly decisive testing for him in the season.
On Saturday, as part of the 23rd round of the Russian championship, the club will have to accept the main competitor in the struggle for survival in the Akhmat Premier League. And the “torch” will be fighting with him without the support of the fans. The stands of his home stadium in the most important match will be empty due to the sanctions imposed on the club by the Russian Football Union (RFU) in connection with the incident in the game with Zenit on March 8. The RFU recognized the behavior of the Voronezh fans that addressed the St. Petersburg Havbek Vendel, sounds similar to hogging.
