Midfielder of “Astana” Ivan Mayevsky in an interview with KazFootball.kz correspondent spoke about quarantine, the start of the championship of Belarus and past matches of the Premier League:

- The main thing is that everyone should be in good health. Now this is the situation in the world, not only in Kazakhstan. In many countries, similar methods of controlling coronavirus. This should be treated with understanding, hygiene, more at home. What everyone does, we must do - we need to be disciplined.

- How do you keep fit?

- There are questions with this, because with the introduction of quarantine many sports facilities were closed, it is not recommended to train. Therefore, while we were given a weekend, and I hope that during this time the club management will find some solution. But we must understand that now sport is far from the forefront. Most importantly, the pandemic problem should be addressed. - Left without football, introduced quarantine in the capital, are away from family. How do you feel about this situation? - Part of the family is in Belarus, part in Russia. Such a situation ... I treat this with understanding. Of course, I want to be with my family, but the most important thing is health.

- Yesterday, the championship started in your country - while this is the only country in Europe where they play football. Don't you think this is too risky a step at this time?

“I cannot reason about this.” There is a leadership of the country, the federation. Decisions must be made by them. But if all countries in the world decided to suspend and postpone all sporting events, then it would probably be more correct for them to postpone the start of the championship. It’s hard to say, since I am not in Belarus and I don’t know what the situation really is.

- Three matches were played in the championship. How can you comment on them? In the last match with Caspian, Astana was not easy.

- It’s difficult to judge, because at the beginning of the championship it’s always like that. All teams can be in a different state, plus a difficult situation with home fields. I agree that we did not play well with Caspian (3: 2), but scored three points - at this stage this is the most important thing. It is clear that further the quality of the game will improve, we must play differently so as not to allow such second halves as it was in Aktau. Yes, “Caspian” played pretty well, I liked their game. In the second half, we did not act at all as we should. I don’t know, the score of the first half (0: 3) may have influenced, but still, the champion of Kazakhstan should not play like that, even if the score was 10: 0.

- The game was held without spectators, sports events were canceled in the country. Maybe this factor influenced psychologically?

“I would not say that.” This does not have to pressure psychologically, we are still professionals, we must go out onto the field and do our job. Yes, there were matches without spectators, quarantine was introduced, but these factors cannot affect the game. You entered the field for an hour and a half and you have to play properly.