Ex-CSKA player to Russian footballers: "If you want to achieve something, you have to leave the country now"

Former CSKA Moscow and Russian national team defender Vasily Berezutsky has called on Russian footballers to go abroad.

"We need to tell footballers the truth. If you want to achieve something at a high level, then now you have to leave one hundred per cent. If you just want to earn money, then you can stay.

This applies not only to Russian footballers, but to all Russian athletes who can perform at least somewhere, should perform. And it doesn't matter for which country, it doesn't matter under which flag. He spent 15, 20 years on this. And now they tell him: you can't compete in European tournaments, you can't do this, you can't do that. You have to go anywhere if you have such an opportunity," Berezutsky said on the YouTube channel of journalist Nobel Arustamyan.