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Canadian Hockey Player Rips Lukashenka’s Golden Child To Shreds

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Canadian Hockey Player Rips Lukashenka’s Golden Child To Shreds
DANIEL CORSO

Daniel Corso shared his opinion on the managing style of Mikhail Zakharau.

Canadian Daniel Corso, who works as strength and conditioning coach ad Dynama Minsk HC, ripped to shreds the Yunatstva HC (Minsk) head coach Mikhail Zakharau.

Having played in the NHL, Corso married our compatriot and stayed in Belarus due to this. Daniel played for the Minsk teams Dynama and Yunatstva, so he knows the irreplaceable head coach of the latter, Mikhail Zakharau, firsthand. Zakharau is widely known as Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s golden boy, Solidarity writes.

There is not just coolness between Corso and Zakharau – it’s severe frost. In an interview for “Pressball”, the Canadian spoke about the Yunatstva HC coach with straightforwardness, not common for our region:

— He’s an absolute egoist! All he’s saying is “me, me, me”. No respect for others. I cannot understand it when a coach uses foul language, shouts at his trainees. When they reshape the team bus for huge money, cutting the space for the players to make a special room for the coach.

When the team loses, it’s the players who get the blame. When they win – it’s the coach’s merit.

I will never understand it when a coach’s salary is bigger than a player’s – there has never been such a situation in any country I’ve played in!

It’s weird that Zakharau has remained the best coach of Belarus for so many years, although he doesn’t work in the KHL of in some other strongest leagues of the world. Maybe, he is waiting for an offer from NHL. However, I am not sure that some general manager from behind the ocean will like it if the coach drinks tea and talks on the phone during training sessions.

That is why I would never trust such a specialist with my kids, even if he is the only one on the planet! Let them better go in for ballet!

I wonder, why, when Lewis left the national team last year, it wasn’t Zakharau but Pushkou who took the lead? Mikhail Zakharau is the best coach in Belarus, so why not taking the team and showing what he is capable of?

Corso commented on the recent scandalous super series between Dynama Minsk and the team of the extra-league clubs, headed by Zakharau. Then, due to the deficiency of players, the Canadian, who is over forty, took his skates out of the basement for a couple of games and went on ice to help his team.

— Of course it would be easier to take advantage of the complicated situation in Dynama, when the team lost over a half of the squad, and the rest had to play despite injuries for three weeks. You should understand: Zakharau lost, or as they say, almost won the super series not against the KHL team which started the season, but against the team which remained of it: injured guys, players from Yunatstva and Shakhtsior, an 18-year-old player… And the oldman, the strength and conditioning coach, making his mistakes.

Probably it was an occasion to think about the horrible state in which not only Dynama found themselves… Instead of wandering around complaining how great you are as a coach at the background of the “bisons”, it would be nice to grow a prominent hockey-player and to achieve good results at the world championship.

Daniel Corso’s revelations did not inform us much new about Mikhail Zakharau. However, it’s one thing when people say so about a person behind the scenes, and the other thing is when it happens publicly, in the media.

It is hilarious that it was precisely Canada where Aliaksandr Lukashenka promised to send the coach who would lost the super series, to look for a job. However, Mikhail Zakharau is still here, due to some reason.

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