Leonid Slutsky, the former coach of Rubin Kazan, said that the consequences of the clash between the capital’s striker Lokomotiv Artem Dzyuba and a journalist after the fourth-round match with Samara Krylya Sovetov in the Russian Premier League (RPL) were dangerous.
After the match, Dziuba promised the journalist to put his phone “in one place” after asking a disturbing question in the parking lot of the RZD Arena.
“The precedent in which Dziuba’s case is taken to the FTC is too dangerous for regular journalists who don’t want to do their job professionally and run around parking lots and chase someone.
“This sets a dangerous precedent for media communications, journalists to allow,” Slutsky said in the broadcast of Comment.Show.
On August 16, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (FTC RFU) decided to conditionally disqualify Dzyuba for two matches for insulting a journalist.
Former representative of Artem Dziuba judicial incomprehensible disqualification of a player after insulting a journalist.