Petersburg “Zenith” and former football player of the Russian national team Vladimir Bystrov criticized proposals to expand the Russian Premier League (RPL).
With this offer spoke Former head coach of Khimki Spartak Gogniev.
“Before you expand RPL to unimaginable heights, you probably need to look a little lower in some way – in kids soccer – to at least make up every team in the arena. So, roughly speaking, it’s a full-size space with little stands.
And we want to build 50 teams in RPL first and then apparently think of everything else. At least on where to take the players, how to prepare them.
Here it is necessary to start with children in general. And then, you know, it’s nice to come to the children’s tournament, and even the toilet in the stadium does not work, ”Wrote Bystrov, telegraph channel.
Now 16 teams participate in the Russian championship. After the 27th round of the RPL, Zenit became the national champion ahead of schedule. CSKA is in second place with 54 points. On the third line is the Moscow “Spartak”. Rostov shares the 3rd place with the red and white teams. Both teams have 50 points each.