Alexander Savchenko can head Khabarovsk SKA-Neftyanik

According to the Ulyanovsk publication “Championship”, the mentor is preparing to leave for the Far East

In Khabarovsk, among people who are not indifferent to Russian hockey, The controversy has not subsided for several weeks now. – who, instead retired Despite the current contract, can Mikhail Pashkin take the helm of a champion club? Initially there were two candidates: Dmitry Shchetinin And Ivana Maksimova. Both are good, but, unfortunately, they are not free now.

And if Dmitry Shchetinin, who created the very “Kuzbass”, which the entire Super League is now afraid of, is in the position of sports director of the club from Kemerovo and, in theory, can exchange the place of a sports functionary for the role of a mentor, then his colleague from Arkhangelsk has just gained control over another potential contender for championship gold – “Vodnik”. It is unlikely that a specialist will want to change his place, especially when there is very little left before the start of the main tournament of the season.

Then the fans found several more athletes they thought were suitable to lead the club – Mikhail Yuryev And Vasily Granovsky. But there are inconsistencies here too. Granovsky never declared his ambitions to become a mentor, Yuryev is unlikely to go to Khabarovsk for the third time, leaving his native Sibselmash. They even remembered Mikhail Sveshnikov, who very briefly prepared SKA-Neftyanik for the season, and then, citing family circumstances, urgently left for Sweden. But this is completely out of the realm of incredible.

The club is understandably silent – it is negotiating, so the question of a new coach remains. And it seems that now it has been closed by the regional Ulyanovsk sports newspaper “Champion”. A short note there reports that the former head coach of Volga is preparing to fly to Khabarovsk.

– Savchenko is going to Khabarovsk! According to our information, Volga head coach Alexander Savchenko will head SKA-Neftyanik in the near future,” reports Maxim Skvortsov, leading the topic of Russian hockey in the publication.

Looks plausible. The only alarming thing is that in the comments under the news, Ulyanovsk fans are more happy than sad about the departure of their leader. They also propose to the club management to give the position of coach to Mikhail Pashkin, who lost his team on the eve of the start of the championship.

Well, let’s see Who is Mr. Savchenko. Firstly, Alexander Savchenko Honored coach of Russia who heads (headed?) Volga Ulyanovsk. The mentor is 65 years old, born in Novokuznetsk. He started playing bandy at a professional level in the Novosibirsk “Komet”, then playing in the first league.

He became a coach in 1987, worked with the Sibselmash youth team, under his leadership the young men won the mini-World Cup in Bollnes, Sweden back in 1996. Then there was work at Zarya in Novosibirsk. He also led the juniors who became silver medalists at the 2000 World Championships. Then he spent three years as the head coach of Ural Trubnik, for a season he was the head coach of Sibskana, and then in 2004 he headed the Kazan then Raketa.

In May 2005, the contract was terminated, and he returned to Novosibirsk. In 2011, he headed the Kirov Rodina and worked as the head coach of the Russian junior team. He came to Volga in 2018 as a senior coach, then became the head coach.

Well, there’s not much left to wait, the management of the Khabarovsk club will probably hurry up with making a decision on a new coach, otherwise the team may enter the championship not really ready. Who will lead the team despite all the inside information is still an open question. We are waiting for the official message, and of course we hope for the best.

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