Petersburg Zenit and the former player of the Russian national football team Roman Shirokov said today that Russian football cannot refuse state funding.
“Public money is gone and football is over. We have 60 clubs in the Second Division, 18 in the First Division and 16 in the RPL. There are about 100 clubs in total.
If you want our 20 clubs to remain, then let’s withdraw the public’s money from football. But what will the rest do? Where are they? – quotes Shirokov’s words “Match TV”.
Zenit became the champion of Russia last season, receiving a second star on the club’s emblem, for the fifth consecutive year and for the tenth time in history. Sergei Semak’s wards scored 70 points, only two losses in 30 matches.
CSKA Moscow (58) took second place, while Spartak finished third (54).
Andrey Chervichenko, ex-president of Spartak Moscow declarationHe said that had it not been for the help of the referees, the red and whites could have finished the Russian Premier League (RPL) without exceeding the fifth or sixth place.
Source: Gazeta
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