Coach recidivist returned to KHL – Nazarov threw bottles, fought with fans and his team doctor

Andrejs Nazarovs

A few days ago, Andrejs Nazarovs became the head coach of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) team Sochi, represented by Latvian hockey player Jānis Jaks, who already managed to play the first match at the helm of the team, experiencing a loss against Minsk Dinamo. or 3: 7. As the coach promised, his unit will not play boring, but did not specify whether it will give results.

Nazarov is one of the most scandalous coaches in Russia, who has managed to do a lot during the existence of KHL and say. In recent years, when he was out of work, the former Tafgai was more like a stand-up comedian, as most of his expressions were detached from realities. In his performances, Nazarov did not forget to pay tribute to the main man of Russian hockey, Roman Rotenberg. However, let’s not forget that Nazarov still considers himself a coach and let’s remember the scandals he got into while working at KHL.

Fight with fans in Minsk

2011. On November 6, a young and ambitious coach with his self-trained Chekhov “Vityaz” arrived in the capital of Belarus for a game against the local “Dynamo”. The match was quite tense, celebrating the victory for the home team – 3: 2. Nazarov himself put the oil on the fire, who in the last minutes sent his cups against the opposing forces. Nazarov did not leave an answer, took a stick and with its help tried to explain to the fans behind the glass that they were not right. One fact about their game – “Vityaz” accumulated 207 penalty minutes. After the match, the coach also behaved aggressively in the hallways of the arena, and on the same evening they were visited in the hotel room by representatives of the special response unit . There was nothing to do, the specialist had to apologize, which was also captured in the video. The reaction also followed from the league – disqualification of two matches and a penalty of 130 thousand rubles (about 3,100 euros at the current exchange rate).

Nazarov and his Canadian “masters”

In the early days of KHL, Vityaz reminded a student from a disadvantaged family who is terrorizing classmates and teachers, but the public is understanding, knowing his situation. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why the league suffered so long from the existence of this team, which at times did not even hide that its main goal is not goal goals, but fights.

2012. In February, in the last home game of “Vityaz”, all the home cups appeared on the field at the result of 1: 4, who started beating everyone they saw. As a result, five hockey players were disqualified by the end of the game, but Nazarov said in earnest at a press conference that “our Canadian masters burned a little today because they wanted to please the fans with a victory.”

Bottle and gesture

2014. In September, the coach already managed Nursultan’s “Barys”, and he showed his character at the beginning of the season, when the Kazakh club visited Vladivostok. Nazarov did not like the rejection of his team for a violation of the numerical line-up and he did not control his emotions – he threw a towel and threw a bottle in the direction of the judges.

It is clear that only one penalty – until the end of the game, which the referees also wrote to Nazarov. The coach did not calm down and showed a gesture several times, the meaning of which does not need to be explained. Later, the coach explained that it was intended for a specific person – Russian hockey legend Vyacheslav Fetisov, who was one of the curators of “Admiral”. When asked why he showed it to all sides, Nazarov answered simply – he did not know exactly where the VIP box was. The consequences were obvious: the disqualification of six games.

Another bottle and Nazarov-Buratino

In November of the same year, another bottle flew from Nazarov’s hands – this time in the direction of Alexander Svitov, the captain of Kazan “Ak Bars”. After the “Barys” tafgai Damir Rispayev held a mess on the pitch and a fight with Svitov at the beginning of the match, the opposing hockey player went to the bench of the Nursultan team to find out the relationship with the scandalous coach. The conversation was real and uncensored, but it ended for Nazarov after he threw a bottle for the second time in three months.

Svitov himself called Nazarov Buratino after the match. , and revealed that he was expecting something from the opponent’s coach. Three years later, the hockey player admitted that all disagreements were a thing of the past and now they have a normal relationship.

Removed the hockey player from the interview

We are already used to interviewing players between hockey (and other sports) games. In Astana, too, in January 2015, there was no indication that something could go wrong – a local correspondent called Barys striker Nikita Mikhail for an interview and started asking a question, but failed to do so as Nazarov approached the hockey player and pushed him towards the locker room.

This time the league did not even pay attention to such an outing – apparently, in the case of Nazarov, the margin of tolerance of the league was higher than that of other specialists. Journalists were angry, however, and for a long time KHL’s television channels did not call Nazarov’s last name, replacing it with “Barys’ head coach”, “Kaljanin’s [Nazarova asistents] assistant” and some other forms.

Beaten the doctor of the self – trained team

in 2015. In the summer of 2006, Roman Rotenberg, vice – president of the SKA in St. Petersburg, faced a difficult choice. The team needed a new head coach, did not want to take foreigners, but there were almost no candidates in the local market. As a result, the choice fell on Nazarov – a mistake that everyone saw, knowing the level of SKA hockey players and coaching methods.

Kozlovam. Hearing that the doctor was disappointed with this decision, the coach got up, knocked him down and later beat him. According to Kozlov himself, he received more than five blows from a specialist who was very angry. After all, everything was put together – Nazarov was fired in October of the same year, but Kozlov returned to the club in 2016.

Over time, Nazarov became more balanced in the public space. However, it is still difficult to play under his leadership, because the coach does not choose expressions and is not ashamed to morally press hockey players. In a normal environment with reputable institutes, Nazarov would no longer work as a coach at that level. But KHL lives by its own laws. It is only a question of how long the Sochi experiment will last.