Football: Kuban fires coach Viktar Hancharenka

Information about Victar Hancharenka’s dismissal from Kuban appeared on November 12.

The ex-coach of Barysau BATE came to work with this Krasnodar club on October 2013. Kuban started the championship of Russia 2014/15 successfully. The team is sharing the 3-5 position after 13 tours and has only lost once.

That is why the information about his dismissal seemed to be a canard at first. Kuban director general Evgenii Muravyov refuted the information at first:

"Hancharenka is still the chief manager of the team. We have no reason to fire him.”

However, influential Russian mass media including Sport-Express started reporting his dismissal soon afterwards. Evgenii Muravyov started saying different things too:

"It is senseless to comment on the situation. Hancharenka is at work and his contract has not been cancelled yet. I know that rumours cannot appear out of nowhere: we will give an explanation when the situation becomes clear. The team is training as usual and preparing for a friendly match appointed for Sunday. I think that we will be able to explain everything tomorrow.”

Another Belarusian coach, Leanid Kuchuk, who left Kuban after a scandal in the summer of 2013 and was fired from Moscow Locomotiv in October 2014 may replace Hancharenka, some sources report.

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