MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti) - Montenegrin trainer
Miodrag Bozovic may take over from Dick Advocaat when the Dutch
coach leaves Zenit St. Petersburg at the end of the season, a
Russian sports paper said on Tuesday.
Bozovic, 40, led the unfashionable Urals side Amkar to 4th
place in the Russian Premier League last season. He was
appointed manager of equally unfancied FC Moskva at the
beginning of the 2009 season on a two-year deal and has
unexpectedly taken the club to the top of the table.
The Sport Dyen Za Dnyem paper said that Bozovic, a former
Red Star Belgrade player, had held preliminary talks with
Zenit. There has so far been no official comment.
Advocaat is due to quit the 2008 UEFA Cup winners to take
over the Belgium national side at the end of the Russian season
in November.
On Monday, former Juventus coach Claudio Ranieri denied
that he had been approached by Zenit, saying he had no plans to
work in Russia.
Zenit are currently in 7th place in the Russian Premier
League after 12 games. The club has lost a number of key
players since lighting up the European arena in 2008, with
Andrei Arshavin leaving for Arsenal, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
signing for Bayern Munich, and Argentine star Alejandro
Dominguez returning to Rubin FC.
Russian international Pavel Pogrebnyak is also rumored to
be on his way out, possible to an English Premier League club.
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