The head coach of the football club “Shinnik” (Yaroslavl) Vadim Evseyev, during the next training session of his team, told the players that he was proud of their actions during the fight with the players of the ” Ukrainian Minai, transmits RBC Sports.
Footage of Evseev’s communication with the players was given to the agency by a team source.
“We selected the right people for the team. They fought back.
People wanted to hype, but, alas, they didn’t. You were few in number, but you did not retreat, but fought.
I saw who was lying, who was fighting. It’s okay,” Yevseev says in the video, then shakes hands with all of the team’s players and coaches.
Previously, the players of the Russian club supported Governor of the Yaroslavl region Mikhail Evraev.
“The fact that our guys fought, well, it’s true. If not how? In this regard, we support them,” Evraev said.
A fight between players of Russian Shinnik and Ukrainian football club Minai took place on February 13 at the Royal Seginus Hotel in Antalya. According to the Russian side, the initiators of the fight were the Ukrainians, who intimidated the Shinnik players at the hotel. According to another version, the fight was the result of the behavior of the players of the Yaroslavl club. “The reason for the skirmish was the disgraceful behavior of the football players of the Russian team towards the hotel employee and the provocative exclamations towards the Transcarpathians,” FC Minay’s official statement read.
