St. Petersburg Zenit football player Andrei Mostovoy said that there are now more Portuguese-speaking players in the blue-white-blue team than Russian-speaking players. He shared his opinion with him “Izvestia”.
“It seems like we have more Portuguese-speaking players than Russian-speaking players. But as it is. Our club focused on this field by targeting Portuguese-speaking Brazilian football players. We don’t decide how we build the team. “Our job is to prove in training and in matches that we can be useful to the club and help it win,” Mostovoy said.
Zenit has nine players with Brazilian passports: Wendel, Claudinho, Gustavo Mantuan, Rodrigao, Douglas Santos, Mario Fernandez, Nino, Arthur and Pedro.
Zenit, which lasted 18 weeks in the Russian Premier League (RPL), is in second place in the rankings with 36 points. Sergei Semak’s team is two points behind the leader Krasnodar.
The Russian Championship has gone on winter break and will only resume in March. In the first official RPL match of 2024, Zenit will play Spartak Moscow, which is in fifth place with 30 points, in St. Petersburg. He will host in St. Petersburg. Zenit won in the first round with a score of 3:1.
Previously leader of RPL decided with the price of his goalkeeper.