MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Former head coach of the Russian national football team Boris Ignatiev underwent stomach surgery. He told TASS about this.
Earlier, the Shot Telegram channel reported that Ignatiev was diagnosed with cancer. According to the source, during the diagnosis, doctors discovered a tumor in the specialist’s stomach.
“The media write that I have been diagnosed with cancer? I don’t know yet, no one notified me about this, let’s not rush,” said Ignatiev. “In general, my health leaves much to be desired. I had stomach surgery, serious, but not really, to shout “guard,” but these were not tumors. Now rehabilitation is underway.”
Ignatiev is 84 years old, from 1992 to 1996 he worked as an assistant to the head coach of the Russian national team, and from 1996 to 1998 he headed the national team. At the club level, he led the Moscow Torpedo and Torpedo-ZIL, Ramensky Saturn, the Chinese club Shandong Luneng, Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia, worked as an assistant head coach at Dynamo Kiev and Lokomotiv Moscow “. From 2013 to 2018 he was vice president of Torpedo.
2024-12-08 07:57:00
