The legendary football player and ex-coach of the Simferopol «Tavriya» Valery Petrov passed away

CrimeaPRESS reports:

This morning, reports «Crimean Sport» , the sad news came: late last night, on March 8, Valery Pavlovich died Petrov, a former legendary football player and coach of Tavriya Simferopol.

The damned coronavirus continues to take away the best… When people close to you leave, you refuse to believe in what happened to the last. Not only one of the leading Crimean football specialists was gone, but also a wonderful person, an optimist and a joker to the marrow of his bones, a comrade and a kind mentor. He remained faithful to football until the very end — he was preparing Skvortsov’s «Gvardeets» for the start of the spring part of the season. I do not want to say banal words. Forgive Palych that we did not save you …

On March 2, Valery Pavlovich turned 67 years old …