Leonid Tufrin, ex-president of Zenit, commented on a sensational interview with Lokomotiv striker Artem Dzyuba, in which he called the team from the shores of the Neva as a team from Brazil, said that the former striker of the St. Petersburg club was unsympathetic. to him as a person. Transmits words “RB Sports”.
“As a person, he’s also not very good towards me because of his different qualities. He calls Zenit resentful. If you look at the leading clubs in Europe, sometimes there are no players in their starting lineups from the country the club represents. This is good. Zenit wants to develop in the same way,” he said.
Dzyuba played the first official match for Lokomotiv in the Russian Cup match against Spartak. He spent the entire 90 minutes on the field without scoring. The striker was recognized as the best player of the match. The match ended with the red and whites winning 1-0. The return match will be played on February 27.
On February 8, the forward signed a contract with Lokomotiv until the end of the season. Dzyuba started the 2022/23 season as part of Turkish club Adana Demirspor, but terminated his contract a few months later and was looking for a new team as a free agent.
Former defender of the Moscow football club “Dynamo” Vitaly Dyakov commented Dziuba’s words about agents.