Former football player and CEO of CSKA Georgi Iliev commented to Sportal.bg last night's draw against Botev (Plovdiv), with which the "Reds" started the new season in the efbet League. Michaela was pessimistic about Dusan Kerkez's team.
"CSKA will be in a tough battle for the bronze, third-fourth place. We will fight with Levski, Cherno more and Arda. By the way, I liked Arda against CSKA 1948, they did not deserve to lose, but on the contrary - they should have won 2:0 or 3:0. If they had scored the penalty, that's where things would have gone. That's why a penalty is given to a leader, to a reliable person, to take the ball and score it. It's 1:0 from the penalty and CSKA 1948 was sinking, Arda played stronger. CSKA lacks a leader, someone to lead the team. Botev gathered two or three who lifted the others. They don't play anything special, but what did CSKA play?!
CSKA has an executive director, a sports director, a sports and technical staff, to think about the problems - they get serious salaries. I already said about the bread and flour, they're ruining Kerkez. He seems like a good person, he's probably a good coach too, because from his period in Botev I can't draw any conclusions. Botev is one thing, CSKA is another. There's a big difference between Plovdiv and Sofia. When they see the sign that they're leaving Plovdiv and that's it. In CSKA and Levski, the tension is completely different, between the capital and the province the difference is significant. Kerkez needs strong reinforcements, otherwise the man is struggling. Last night we went out with Tasev and ten foreigners. We took Bulgarians, why did we take them? For the second team? Ten foreigners in the eleven... As I said, the fight will be for the bronze.
There is euphoria in Levski now, but this penalty shootout victory against the Israelis should not send them into the clouds. And they will be in the dispute between second and fourth place. It's good that Vutsov saved three penalties, but he is more or less connected to CSKA. His heart is red, no matter that he is now waving a blue scarf. It's normal - CSKA is where the greatest football players in Bulgaria are. That's why their ranking comes from the boy who touched the army. If he sang CSKA songs, then he can achieve something, "said Georgi Iliev.