Russian football was this week shocked by the sudden announcement that Amkar Perm's legendary Bulgarian midfielder Georgi Peev was terminating his contract and retiring from football with immediate effect at the age of 37. Such an announcement, midway through a season, would in most cases be presumed to be related to injury, but in the case of Peev, a bust up with veteran manager Gadzhi Gadzhiev pushed him over the edge. Gadzhiev, who has been in charge of Amkar since 2015, and has managed at a … [Read more...]
Season Preview: Amkar Perm
July 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Intro: Gadzhi Gadzhiyev, the man that worked together with Anatoliy Byshovets to take the Soviet Union Olympic football team to the gold medal back in 1988 in Seoul, embarked, last December, on an unbelievably complicated task at the helm of Amkar Perm, but so far he has been doing an impressive job. Amkar’s last season was full of ups and downs as the team failed to fully overcome the departure of the tactician Stanislav Cherchesov, who did a very good job with the team and implemented … [Read more...]
