Andrei Kanchelskis, a former Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk player who has been living in Russia for a long time, has spoken out about the catastrophic state of Russian soccer and the lies on television.
Andrei Kanchelskis (photo: championat.com)"When I came here in 2004. (Kanchelskis' career was in Europe, - editor's note).I said that we were 50 years behind. In the Soviet Union, there were values and traditions. We have lost all this. You should not employ amateurs, crooks and crooks, but soccer people who really want to develop soccer.
We have one federal sports channel. People should come to soccer. The whole country is watching this outrage. They tell you some fairy tales that everything is fine here.
During the World Cup, 11 professional soccer clubs closed down - no one talks about that. Can you imagine how many unemployed soccer players there are? And what can a player do besides soccer? Okay, at a high level he could save some money, but if a player is in the second league, where will he go - to a factory? These scoundrels have closed 11 clubs," Kanchelskis was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
