Former head coach of Khimki near Moscow, Sergey Yuran, spoke about the naturalization of foreign players in order to replenish the Russian national team.
According to him, this practice hinders the development of football in the regions.
“We are not Luxembourg or Switzerland, small countries. We are Russia, we must respect ourselves. Now we have to mind our business, we used to have very good players. Then let’s close the sports schools, and only foreigners will play in the Russian championship and the national team.
We have a big country, develop the regions! It’s nothing personal, but I don’t understand this way of naturalizing athletes. We need to educate ourselves, there are all possibilities for this, ”quotes Juran “RB Sports”.
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