MOSCOW, December 1 Former coach of Spartak Moscow Oleg Romantsev took up the position of advisor at the Nizhny Novgorod football club, said the general director of the Nizhny Novgorod team, David Melik-Guseinov.
“”Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev, the great Soviet and Russian football player, coach, international master of sports, will help develop the Nizhny Novgorod club. Today we had a wonderful pre-match day. We started with a training session, then there was a big press conference by Oleg Ivanovich. And then a historic meeting took place with Nizhny Novgorod fans. Very useful for everyone and in every sense. The team received important advice, the media received answers to questions, including the position of the great coach on sensitive topics. And the fans felt a sense of need and importance. Oleg Ivanovich agreed accept the invitation to be an advisor and mentor to our club. Together we are strong,” Melik-Huseinov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Romantsev is 69 years old, he headed Spartak from 1989 to 2003 with a break for the 1996 season. Under his leadership, the “red-whites” became champions of the USSR in 1989, and also won the Russian championship eight times (1992-1994, 1997-2001). Also, together with Romantsev, “Spartak” won the national Cup four times – the “red-whites” took the last USSR Cup in 1992, and then won the Russian Cup three times (1994, 1998, 2003).
Nizhny Novgorod with 21 points in 16 rounds is in ninth place in the Russian Premier League (RPL) table.
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