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Ä°gor NakonechnÄ±: Why â€œMKT-Arazâ€ is always to hold UEFA Cup first matches at home?

12 July 2007 12:36 (UTC +04:00)

Imishliâ€™s â€œMKT-Arazâ€ clubâ€™s main coach Igor Nakonechniâ€™s exclusive interview for â€œAPA-Sportâ€

- How do you evaluate trainings in Ukraine?
- We have not analyzed the trainings comprehensively. We will discuss it returning to Baku. In any case I can now say the trainings were held well. The matches we held in the first stage of trainings were negative. But the situation improved gradually.
- But the fact is that you could not score even one victory not saying your lossesâ€¦
- The losses during the test matches are useful. I mean such losses make us to think over mistakes. We managed to collect the stabile team finally. This was important for us.
- You made radical changes in the new season. Will it create problems in the matches of UEFA Cup?
- Naturally. This step of introducing radical changes was necessary. But it does not destroy our hopes. We are concerned over our problems on the eve of UEFA Cup matches. In my opinion the condition regarding team will improve till the start of new championship.
- You held friendship matches only with Ukraine teamsâ€¦
- We had no other choice. Alyushta where we held matches had only Ukrainian clubs.
- Did any local footballer dash your hopes?
- All of them tried to justify hopes. I can not say all of them will stay in the main team. We have not included the names of all footballers with whom we signed contracts. We will settle this issue in Baku.
- What could you tell about Samir Abdulov?
- As a footballer I* need Samir. But his move to the club depends on leadership.
- Except three new legionaries do you think to transfer foreign footballers?
- We will not stop transferring legionaries. We need legionary footballer. We expect to receive legionary in Baku. I would not say concrete things about it. I can just say that we are interested in the legionary striker. We want to have legionary striker till the start of match against â€œGrotslinâ€. We will make efforts to do it after championship.
- Except striker do you intend to transfer legionaries for other positions?
- No. We have goalkeeper, and we do not need legionary for this position. We needed legionaries- midfielders. Serbian Milutum Trnavak is midfielder. Ukrainian Andrey Dnayev and Russian Umar Karsanov are stabile midfielders. The abilities of our legionaries will be clarified in the match against â€œGrotslinâ€
- Do you think your team is ready for UEFA Cup?
- We are ready 60-70 percents
- Did you succeed to collect necessary information on â€œGrotslinâ€?
- There is problem on this issue. You know we do not have much time and much thing is to be done.
- Did you make advantage of Moldovan striker Anatoly Dorosh, who played in Polish championship for a long period?
- Yes I did. He assisted in collecting information about â€œGrotslinâ€. We will try to collect detailed information in Baku. We think that â€œGrotslinâ€ matches video shooting will be at our disposal at that time.
- You considered the first match to be held away will be useful for us. But then it turned out that the first match will be held at homeâ€¦
- I was not happy to hear that news. I wanted to have first match away. The decision change disappointed me. I do not understand why â€œMKT-Arazâ€ is always to hold first matches at home. It sis better to hold return UEFA Cup matches at home. We had such chance and we were prepared for it. But later we faced changes.
- Does this factor decrease chances to enter UEFA Cup second round?
- The chances are equal.
- Do you think it is real to transfer Mahmud Gurbanov?
- I know Mahmud well as footballer. Despite he is good footballer I do not think his move to our team is real. In any case it is difficult to do it now./APA-Sport/