Russian Hockey Coach Says “Eat Me Alive”
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This was the exchange between Russian Olympic hockey coach Zinetula Bilyaletdin and the Russian press after the national team’s loss to Finland in the Winter games.
Q: What future, if any, do you see for your own work and for your coaching staff? Because, you know, your predecessor was eaten alive after the Olympics—
Bilyaletdin: Well then, eat me alive right now—
Q: No, I mean—
Bilyaletdin: Eat me, and I won’t be here anymore.
Q: But we have the world championship coming up!
Bilyaletdin: Well then, there will be a different coach because I won’t exist any more, since you will have eaten me.
It must be hard to coach in a country where you don’t know if the press meant that figuratively or literally.
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