President of the Football Federation of Kazakhstan Adlet Barmenkulov commented on the boorish antics of the head coach of the national team Stanislav Cherchesov, who allowed himself to publicly mock the Kazakh language.
"There are mistakes, we just talked about it yesterday with journalists. Cherchesov's humor, of course, is out of bounds. I personally had a word with him, explained the relevance and priority of the state language. We had a conversation with him, work. He was given a fine," - quotes the words of Barmenkulov BaigeNews.
Recall, at a press conference after the Nations League match between Kazakhstan and Slovenia (0:1) Cherchesov in response to a question from a local journalist, asked in Kazakh, said: "Are you speaking French now?". The Russian was fined 738,400 tenge (about 63,000 hryvnias) by the Kazakhstan Football Federation for this.