The national team of Russia on football play with Hungary, Capello remains with the team – RIA Novosti

BUDAPEST, November 18 – R-Sport, Taras Barabash. Russian team Nov. 18 in a friendly match against Hungary in Budapest: the meeting, which will begin at the stadium “Groupama” at 22:30 MSK, will be the last for the national team in 2014.

On the eve of the match, the captain of Russia Roman Shirokov said that the team time to recover their self-respect, and coach Fabio Capello – that’s going to continue to work with the team.

“Respect must play deserves. Maybe in the past year, we podrasteryali. It must return a good game from this match,” – expressed broad general mood on the eve of the game against Hungary.

The Minister set Strongly

In the previous game (in the qualifying tournament of the European Championship 2016) Fabio Capello’s team conceded the Austrians on the road with the score 0: 1. This game was seen as a key to determine the fate of both the team and its head coach.

And while Capello speed and quality of the game pleased, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko different opinion.

“The result is a team in this game we can not meet the trend – we lose, the team loses confidence, not to mention the ranking. If we now selected for the World Cup, we would have a huge problem – said Mutko reporters after the match in Vienna. – We’re back to 2005 when our aim was not to fail in the selection of the tournament. We must now solve other problems. Youth team has once again missed the Olympics. Since this is the time to understand the problems. In general, sport must take a number of decisions, and we will return to this topic. This organizational, personnel decisions “.

We can only wait for the end of the match, after which just might follow fateful decision, the minister promised.

Who will leave his post: Capello, colon or both?

The near future will answer the question of whether or not to be in his position not only Capello but RFU President Nikolai Tolstoy, who after a meeting in Vienna argued that the team needed to add in offensive actions.

After Mutko recognized the need to reshuffle in Russian football, the public suggested that we can talk about the prospects of the president of the RFU. Capello, despite appearing in media reports about the possible resignation, continued to lead the team and to the pre-match training session, which was without exception the football team (only Vasili Berezutski worked on the individual program).

“I have no such news, I have no one is informed that tomorrow’s match – the last, – said the Italian to reporters. – I am confident that if we play as always, the result will come. This is my idea. The Minister may have a different opinion. I do not want to comment and get stuck in the statements of the minister and the president of the RFU, many are talking about football, and when the reason, do not quite correct statements “.

Russia captain Roman Shirokov has expressed confidence that Capello will continue to work and after the match in Budapest.

“Regarding personnel decisions (mentioned Mutko) – this is not necessarily the head coach,” – says Shirokov. “We’re playing for the country and for the head coach. Tomorrow (friendly) match (with Hungarian team) will not be his last” – assured the midfielder.

Why and who needs a match in Budapest?

In light of statements Mutko, himself a football match against Hungary goes into the shadow of the upcoming decisions to return the team to the path of success and prosperity.

The former striker of the national team of Russia Valery Kechinov before the match at all stressed that the meeting Budapest no benefit to the Russian team: “If you pay attention to this game to kill time, then it makes sense, but personally, my plan does not include game viewing. She is not interested … However, the need to give the Hungarians against the practice who played a little to see the level of our future, to understand what we expect from them. ”

However, Shirokov has a different opinion: “The national team is not playing so often and once a match to someone check or strum the scheme does not hurt”.

Turkish Waitress game umpires led by Cuneyt Cakir , which will help compatriots – Bahattyn Duran and Orkun Aktas. Fourth official will Barish Şimşek.