MOSCOW, May 26, Andrey Vasilchin. The day before, shortly before the start of the main derby of the country CSKA – Spartak, the army team was attacked… by the former head coach of Auxerre, Guy Roux. It was he who led the French club in the 2004/05 season, when the “red-blues” became the first Russian team to win the UEFA Cup (the second most important club trophy in the Old World is now called the Europa League).
Auxerre met with CSKA at the quarterfinal stage: first they were destroyed in Moscow with a score of 0:4, and then managed to win at home – 2:0. Which, obviously, was not enough to reach the semi-finals. 19 years later, 85-year-old Guy Roux remembered that confrontation and accused CSKA of bribing the German team of referees led by Wolfgang Stark, which officiated the match in France.
“”We were robbed by CSKA. The referee was bought. I will tell you an interesting incident in the return match that could lead us to prison. After the first match, I became suspicious and asked a local guy to go and search the referees' bags during the match. He came back to me with a pale face and said: “There is a magnificent watch with rubies,” Guy Roux told Le Figaro.
The coach admitted that he did not call the police and the authorities to get the four German referees fired. And he added. , that he was “an even bigger fool when he didn’t steal the watch.” Now the specialist is sure that he did the wrong thing by not making what he saw public.
Reviews of both matches of the Russians against the French
The CSKA veterans, the triumphers of that tournament, to put it mildly, did not understand the French coach’s “assault.”
- Rolan Gusev:
“”Grandfather went crazy, he just went crazy in his old age, what else can you say.”
- Evgeniy Aldonin:
“” This is the delirium of a madman, honestly. When almost 20 years have passed and talking about some kind of bribery, this is ridiculous.”
Former head coach of CSKA Valery Gazzaev answered Guy Roux no less harshly:
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“I have an assumption: they want to tease and humiliate Russia again on the eve of the Olympics in Paris. But, in my opinion, the Auxerre coach With these words I only humiliated myself, it looks ridiculous. Be silent for 20 years and now try to shake the air. That's just funny! Did he want to hook Russia, CSKA? Don't you think his accusations are ridiculous? Now you can say anything you want. Every day they speak complete nonsense in the West. Where was he when we beat them 4-0? Why did he remain silent both then and after the return meeting?! Stop paying attention to these nasty things. Politics in its purest form.” ("Sport-Express")
I agreed with Gazzaev’s opinion former goalkeeper coach of CSKA Vyacheslav Chanov:
“The match with Auxerre is historic, everyone remembers it. And we, the participants in this match, even more so remember every second. This is complete nonsense. I understand that now is the time when Russia should be blamed. Maybe I should suggest this coach watch match in Spain, when we became European champions, when Yashin was in goal and Pondelnik scored, maybe we did something else wrong there?” (“Championship”)
The director of communications for CSKA Moscow, Kirill Breido, responded to the scandalous attack by Guy Roux:
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"Based on what has been said, the referee here, rather, was almost robbed by Guy’s man Ru, who reached into his bag, and no one else. Well, seriously, CSKA won the first match with a score of 4:0, and Guy Roux’s suspicions arose due to the fact that during the return game, on his instructions, someone got into the referee’s bag and seemed to find some “ ;watch with rubies.
The speaker noted that, given the poor performance of Auxerre, it was more logical to check the French bags. And he was glad that the famous coach “is alive and well at 85 years old and remembers that glorious year for CSKA.”
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