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President of the so-called. RPL Alexander Alaev spoke about the prospect of Russia's transition from UEFA to the Asian Confederation.

— We are members of UEFA. Yes, suspended from the competition, but we are members of UEFA. The situation is developing dynamically. I would like us to play in Europe: play in the Champions League and the Europa League, the Conference League, play in the European Championship and qualify for the World Cup through the European Championship qualifiers.

How the situation will develop, what it will lead to, whether we will return to Europe or not - no one knows. It is clear that Asia is less attractive: both financially and from a sporting point of view. But, perhaps, someday the question will arise differently - to be selected conditionally through Asia, or not to be selected anywhere at all. Then I'll probably say that it makes sense. Given that Europe is number one in football, I would like to stay there.

A potential change of confederation is the most difficult bureaucratic process. This is a chain of actions for more than a year. So far, these are all talks and rumors,” the official told local media.

Russian State Duma Deputy Irina Rodnina is convinced that Russian football clubs should be closed.

“If they call themselves professionals, then in these years — almost 30 years — they could already learn how to earn money themselves and live up to their title of a professional football club.

If the business is unsuccessful, then it must be closed or reconstructed, redone.

Close Russian football clubs? And why not, if they do not know how to earn, but only know how to spend? Football club is a business. If they haven’t learned how to earn money in 30 years, then something needs to be changed: management, or going bankrupt, or something else, ”Legalbet deputy quotes.

Well-known football lawyer Yuri Yurchenko commented on the possibility of Russia's "evacuation" from UEFA to Asia.

- This is ridiculous. Even if they move to Asia, on the one hand, they are dear to them there. On the other hand, the level of football there is much lower. This is perfectly noticeable in all world championships, no matter how we say that football has leveled off and all countries have learned to play from it. Legally, this will not change anything, since sanctions have been adopted not only at the UEFA level, but at the FIFA level. FIFA decisions are valid throughout the planet and do not depend on which continental federation they will be located in.

For them, absolutely nothing will change. This is some kind of manipulation to show in front of their audience that they are doing something, that they do not agree with something. It's like they defiantly left the European Court of Human Rights, but this happened after they wanted to be expelled from there anyway. Now they say they want to leave UEFA. Well, get out. What's next? the lawyer said.

In occupied Donetsk, it was reported that the city's stadiums are ready for professional tournaments under the auspices of the Russian Football Union.

This was written in local public pages on October 21, citing a statement by Pavel Davydenko, who calls himself the “President of the Football Union of the DPR”. According to him, matches can be held at the Donbass Arena, Metallurg, Olimpik and RSK Olimpiyskiy stadiums.

In addition, the so-called "football union of the DPR" is also going to leave the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA) after "joining" Russia.

The so-called "Deputy Minister of Sports of the Republic of Crimea" Sheriff Osmanov said that local football clubs are ready to enter the Russian under-championship.

- We are looking forward to this, we hope that this will happen in the very near future. Negotiations are underway on this issue. Football infrastructure, in principle, is ready today. There are eight professional clubs on the territory of Crimea that are ready to participate in our common football main tournament. For a long time we have already missed the big tournaments," local media quoted the official as saying.

Osmanov kept silent about the fact that this same “football infrastructure” was killed on the peninsula back in 2014. We also recall that the “Russian Championship” is a kind of party in its own juice, which has no way out of the Russian football curb.

The general director of the Russian "Ufa" Shamil Gazizov reacted to the information that the club could cease to exist.

— We have been experiencing problems for a long time, a well-known fact. From today, all club employees have been sent a notice signed by me, including me, about a possible reduction in the next two months. We notified everyone that we can pay salaries for some more time. So? And then we will think about what to do," local media quoted Gazizov as saying.

The head of the National Football League (FNL) of Russia, a certain Nail Izmailov, talked about the "entry" of the Crimean clubs into this formation.

— There is a problem of the status of the players, labor contracts. It is necessary to dig, consult and manage these processes. It will be necessary to work with Crimean clubs. Let's try to make the integration as fast as possible. If everything goes well, we will start the next season together," the Match TV official said.

The head of the Russian Football Union, Alexander Dyukov, commented on the joint application of Ukraine, Spain and Portugal to host the 2030 World Cup.

- At the moment, I do not see any commercial, marketing logic from such an application. The addition of a third state to the original bid of Spain and Portugal did not make it stronger. Apart from politics, I don’t see anything in this,” Russian media quote Dyukov as saying.

Recall that the non-country Dyukova herself cannot not only submit any application for anything, but is simply expelled from all international football competitions.

Former football player and coach of Spartak Moscow Igor Ledyakhov commented on the latest trends in Russian football against the background of the total isolation of the aggressor country.

“Football has been going downhill for a long time. And now the situation with Ukraine has been added. The quality of the game suffered greatly from the departure of foreigners. It is not surprising that those clubs that have retained foreign players are at the top.

Rostov is rather an exception. Outstanding coaching team. They play as young people, but they look very decent.

The isolation of Russia is already making itself felt. A lot of quality players left. Krasnodar lost good players. "Rubin" lost half of the staff and flew out. What's to complain about now? We need to work with the material that is available," Ledyakhov said.

The newly-made president of the Russian FNL, a certain Nail Izmailov, spoke about the possible integration of Ukrainian clubs into the league. And not all the occupied territories, as previously announced, but only from Crimea, which the Rashists have been occupying for the ninth year, having managed to almost destroy the football infrastructure on the peninsula.

- Admission of Crimean clubs to the FNL is not a quick process. This will require changing the format, other regulatory documents that differ from those documents that were in Ukraine. Work is underway, not all at once. It was not planned to invite representatives of the Crimean football to today's event, - Izmailov told the local "Championship".

The ex-midfielder of the Russian "Zenith" Mauricio spoke about the joint work in his former team under the leadership of the Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu, who, as you know, now heads the Kiev "Dynamo".

“André Villas-Boas left behind a top line-up. But Lucescu turned out to be a very strange coach. pursued his goals. Mircea changed almost the entire team, he was in conflict with many.

He was already many years old then, and some of his ideas were conservative: you can’t talk a lot, you can’t express your opinion. “I know everything, and you have to do what I say,” something like that.

Plus, Lucescu was unfair with Miguel Danny. He is a legend of Russian football. And Mircea took the captain's armband from him and put him on the bench. Lucescu was too selfish. Largely due to all these internal problems, we did not become champions that season, ”Sport24 quoted Mauricio as saying.

Recall that Lucescu headed Zenit from 2016 to 2017.

The head of the so-called of the "All-Russian trade union of football players" of Russia reported that he was approached by three ex-football players who received summonses from military commissars.

— None of the current football players applied. But I have appeals from three guys who have ended their careers. We can help with consultations. Our main task is to protect the rights of football players in their relationship with their employers. Therefore, here we can only give some human advice, - the local mass media quote.