"To defend the dignity of the country at such serious competitions as the European Championship, we need a serious approach to the team's affairs, a true player-leader and a coach who will be able to take full responsibility for the team. Currently I am close to the opinion that at this moment the domestic team needs a foreign coach," - Oleksandr Volkov.
Volkov also expressed his disagreement with the fact that the coach of the blue-and-yellows, Hennadii Zashchuk, in none of his post-match comments after the lost games at the European Championship took responsibility for the result upon himself.
"A coach must understand that if success comes to his team - the laurels of the winner will go first of all to him, but if the team suffers a fiasco - it is entirely his fault, which he must take upon himself."
Mykola Khriapa, whom Zashchuk did not invite to the national team, also sharply criticized Zashchuk's work. According to Khriapa, the current Ukrainian national team was formed not on a sporting principle and, apart from the youth, several experienced basketball players could have helped it, and he named the surnames of Yaila and Kharchenko.
In addition, Khriapa cited the words of his brother Viktor, who plays for the Russian national team and who commented on the Euro-2005 match Ukraine - Russia: "Vitya told me this: We played not against Ukrainians, but against Zashchuk. It would have been your game if there had been at least one more experienced player in the Ukrainian national team besides Medvedenko, who by that moment had received his fifth foul and left the court, the result of the match would have been different."
According to information from "Sport-Express in Ukraine"