“Konyaspor loved me for several months”

31-year-old Ukrainian striker from Konyaspor Artem Kravets He told why he decided to pursue a career at this particular Turkish club.

“The impressions are only positive, I am very satisfied and happy. I also had a good debut. I don’t need to adapt. I already understand everything and I know the league. The language of football is generally the same, but I have not changed continent. Only for a month, with a stopover in Ukraine, I changed cities. The boys received me very well. It doesn’t take long to understand on a soccer field.

It’s good that we scored against Besiktas, but the main thing is that we won. It was the second game of the season, Konya missed the first round, then they played 0: 0, now they won. This is an important result. In the first goal I saw that there were no more options. They were all closed, two people in the penalty area. It was probably difficult to give the transfer there.

I remember how we played against the Turkish team here. That game was a success for me. I spoke to the presidential aide here, he remembers being in that game. He had a feeling that he would be here again helping the Konyaspor. I did not communicate directly with the club president, we had a couple of conversations with him. There was great interest from him. They have loved me for months. The coach, when I was at Rizespor, wanted to sign me there, but the circumstances didn’t work out. This is a very important factor, I was pleasantly surprised by this interest. This played a big role, ”Kravets said.

In the match against “Besiktas” (4: 1) Kravets scored a double and an assist.