MOSCOW, January 4, Svetlana Bonopartova. Former Russian national team footballer Alexander Mostovoy said that ex-coach of Moscow Spartak Oleg Romantsev made an invaluable contribution to his sports career, for which he is still grateful.
On Thursday Romantsev turned 70 years old.
“»I always single out two great coaches: Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov and Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev. Oleg Ivanovich is very important to me, because it was he who found me when I was 16 years old. I noticed a simple boy from the Moscow region. He is everything to me football. Lately, we often write to each other, call each other, are in close contact. And today, of course, I will also congratulate him on his birthday,” Mostovoy said.
Romantsev 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). Together with Romantsev, Spartak won the National Cup four times (1992, 1994, 1998, 2003). As a player, he was the captain of Spartak.
Romantsev also led the Russian national team from 1994 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2002. Under his leadership, the national team made it to the finals of Euro 1996 and the 2002 World Cup.
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