A prominent Russian political scientist, Sergei Markov, director general of the Institute for Political Studies, considers it unlikely that the number 88 jerseys will be banned in domestic football. Transmits words sports24.
“This is an artificial number for a football team and is more likely to indicate a Nazi salute and not an eighth substitute.
Is this possible in Russia? Maybe, but only in terms of monkeying: “They banned 88, let’s ban it!”. Now we practically do not have such a neo-Nazi subculture. This is very unlikely in our country. There is no point in banning it in Russia,” said Markov.
June 27 recognizedDue to the fight against Nazism, Italian football players were banned from playing under the number 88.
The Russian Football Championship ended on 3 June. Petersburg “Zenith” became the champion of the RPL. The difference of Sergei Semak’s team from second place was 12 points. The silver of the championship went to CSKA. The top three winners were closed by Spartak.
The new season kicks off with the Super Bowl match between Zenit and CSKA on July 15.