This statement was made by Zenit's head coach after the women's team won gold in the Russian championship.
The day before, Zenit women's soccer club from St. Petersburg became the Russian women's soccer champion, a title the Blue-Belo-Blue players have taken for the second year in a row. Sergei Semak rejoiced at the success of his teammates and noted that their victory strengthened the status of the Northern Capital as the leading soccer city in the country, Match TV reports.
"I congratulate the Zenit women's coach on winning the title". The women's and men's teams are champions. This proves that St. Petersburg is a leading city in Russian soccer," Semak said.
In addition, the coach expressed his joy at the creation of a media soccer club in the city. Sergey Semak notes that thanks to media soccer people have an opportunity to learn about the internal kitchen of teams in a hitherto unknown way. In addition, Medialiga can attract the interest of young people who spend a lot of time on social networks and are not interested in professional soccer.
"My son does not miss a single one of its [Medialiga soccer team] matches," emphasized the mentor of the Blue and White Blues.
FC Zenit is the reigning Russian soccer champion and has taken the title for five consecutive years. At the moment, after 19 rounds, the team is in 2nd place, trailing the leader FC Krasnodar by 2 points. It is worth noting that in the Russian Premier League, St. Petersburg is represented by Zenit, Moscow by Spartak, CSKA, Dynamo and Lokomotiv. In total, teams from Moscow have won 11 titles in the 21st century, Zenit - 9.