Yanaki Dimitrov, "Topic sport":
The name precedes the man, people have said since ancient times. A little philosophically speaking, but the younger wave of coaches in our country likes to use “twisted phrases“ and play on the thin string of popular love. Among them is Aleksandar Tomas. Everything revolves around leadership, moral and willpower qualities, with some sports-technical terms and attempts to push modern football views interwoven. It's nice to say it, but it turns out that it's quite difficult to fulfill it.
And as a rule, words about morality and leadership hang in the air like washed pants. That's exactly what happened to the CSKA coach after the shameful cup final against Ludogorets. To turn the raging red ocean of emotions in the stands into a black hole, you need “mastery“. No matter how you hide for nearly 100 minutes in front of 40 thousand people. After this production, which went hand in hand with the most expensive fifth place in the history of domestic football, Tomas had only one move. The most painless phrase for his ego would have been: "I resign, the bosses decide". Instead, we heard painfully familiar clichés about bowing to the great audience and the obligatory apology...
It is high time that football people in our country stop apologizing, but take responsibility. Instead of squandering huge capital without a drop of remorse (b.a. – examples as many as you want, Nikolay Mitov lost a title for Levski in front of a full stadium and didn't leave either). You failed, you get up and leave, instead of looking for all sorts of excuses and saying that you are not the biggest problem. Here we never learned that a leader leads by example. Not by words that he just throws into space. How do you expect your players to behave like men when you don't?
For some, the name comes first, it's all about the honor. However, they are a minority. Unfortunately, in the majority, things boil down to “one more salary“. And morality is absent, no matter how much they convince us otherwise. That's why they are not remembered the way they want. And some things will always overtake them…