Belgian Brugge, which includes Ukrainian team players Roman Yaremchuk and Eduard Sobol, parted ways with head coach Karl Hoefkens.
The unsatisfactory results of Brugge led to such a decision. In the championship, the reigning champion of the country cannot win for three matches in a row and dropped to fourth place in the table with a gap of 12 points from Genko, and the Blue-Blacks flew out of the Belgian Cup, defeated on the home field by Saint-Truiden (1:4).
Hoofkens did not help to stay in his post and the fact that he managed for the first time in history to lead the team to the playoffs of the Champions League. At the group stage, Club Brugge took second place, leaving behind Bayer Leverkusen and Spanish Atlético, and in the 1/8 finals they will play with Lisbon Benfica (the first leg on February 15 in Belgium, the second leg on March 7 in Portugal). ).
We add that the dismissal of the coach was good news for Roman Yaremchuk, who did not have a stable playing practice at the club after moving from Benfica at the end of summer for 16 million euros. For four months, the Ukrainian, who, according to rumors, had a conflict with a mentor, played only 12 matches for the Black-and-Blues in all tournaments (9 in the Belgian Championship and 3 in the Champions League), in which he scored 2 goals. The situation with Eduard Sobol’s playing practice is not much better - 14 matches and 1 goal scored this season.
Earlier reported that the Polish national team fired head coach Cheslav Mikhnevich.
Source: Fakty
