Maminov appointed Lokomotiv interim coach, Byshovets turned down

According to the information that became available to Sports.ru, Lokomotiv Moscow assistant coach Vladimir Maminov will act in capacity of the club’s head coach until a permanent successor is appointed for the recently sacked Yuri Krasnozhan.

Meanwhile, Anatoly Byshovets, who was in charge of the ‘railwaymen’ in 2006-07, met Vadim Morozov, Lokomotiv’s chairman of board and the man who initiated Byshovets’s first tenure at the club. During the meeting Byshovets offered himself as a successor to the position that had become vacant since yesterday, but the board of directors was reluctant to discuss this option.

In a conversation with Sports.ru reporter Maminov himself revealed that no official appointments have been made until now.

The out-of-favor Yuri Krasnozhan is said to be already on the radar of Dynamo Moscow, who haven’t found a permanent head coach after sacking Miodrag Bozovic.