The source reports that the fans broke into the club's base and attacked Belarusian specialist.
The head coach of the Polish second division club Zaglebie Sosnowiec Alexander Khatskevich became a victim of an attack by hooligans.
As reported by the publication Meczyki. pl, on April 3, fans broke into the team’s training session and attacked the Belarusian coach. Khatskevich received a blow to the face and several kicks.
The source also notes that the 50-year-old specialist will leave the club in the near future.
Under his leadership, Zaglebie has shown disastrous results this season. The team currently ranks last in the standings of Poland's second strongest division. The gap from the place outside the relegation zone is 12 points.
At the same time, the agent of the Belarusian specialist Vadim Shabliy denied the information that his client was beaten by Polish fans.
According to him, there were only attempts and threats were made against him, but it did not come to the point of assault. He also said that Khatskevich himself was going to resign.
“Nobody beat Khatskevich, there were only attempts and threats against him from strange people, hooligans. The ProStar agency will protect Alexander Khatskevich in the legal field and under the contract. Nobody is firing him, Alexander Nikolaevich is going to leave Zaglebie himself because the team is a mess,” Shabliy said in a commentary to “Ukrainian Football.”
Khatskevich himself has also commented on the information about the scandalous actions of Polish fans.
“The training took place in a normal atmosphere, but at some point a group of people appeared who wanted to aggressively attack the coaching staff and players.
My players showed unity. I myself grew up on the street and I know how to behave in such situations situations, I know how to turn away, I know how to throw a punch. We did not feel safe. The problem is that the club did not provide adequate security during training. This should not have happened,” Polish journalist Piotr Słonka quotes Khatskevich on his Twitter page.
Previously, the media reported that before the last match, Khatskevich locked his players in the locker room and told them to choose their own tactics and style of play for the match of the 25th round of the Polish second division against Katowice. As a result, the match ended in a crushing defeat for Zaglebie with a score of 0:4.
Khatskevich took charge of Zaglebie in mid-January 2024. Since then, the team has scored only 2 points in 6 matches.
Recall that from 2017 to 2019 Khatskevich headed Dynamo Kiev. At the head of the “white-blues” the Belarusian won two Ukrainian Super Cups.