Mutko took control of the RAF under control – News

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Care Nikolai Tolstoy as president Russian Football Union (RFU) has changed the situation in the largest sports federation in Russia. According to “Izvestia”, the acting president of the RFU 88-year-old Nikita Simonyan and CEO Alexander RFU Alaev coordinate all its decisions with the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko.

Alaev almost every day visiting the Ministry of Sports of the building on the street Kazakova, which holds working meeting with Mutko. Meanwhile, experts are leaving the RAF, which led Nikolai Tolstoy. On his decision to leave the Football Association has said Anatoly Vorobyov (Secretary General), Dmitri Ivanov (Deputy Director General) and Eugene Dzichkovsky (head of the department of information policy).

Mutko himself became much more often attend events RFU. Last week, the minister visited the training of the national team and attended the friendly match with Belarus. After the match Mutko said to reporters almost as a leader of the RAF: “Now our main goal – is to prepare the team for the game against Austria. And also we need to solve the problems that have accumulated there. They are very much: it is necessary to prepare the youth and junior teams, prepare the team in beach soccer, because they play the Euroleague. We must all return, you need to come on friendlies at 20-30 thousand. Viewers, as it always has. Problems have accumulated a lot, but they do not want to talk right now. We are in negotiations with creditors. Maybe try to sign something before the game. It is better to talk only about football, the rest – is another matter ».

Also Mutko suggested the first idea Reform of Russian football: limit the age of members of the Professional Football League (PFL) 23 years. According to the minister, in the second division, many players play until retirement, which is not conducive to the development of young and promising students.

According to many years of the Secretary General of the RAF, ex member of the FIFA Technical Committee Vladimir Radionova, Mutko’s candidacy for the post of head of the RFU is not ideal.

– I think that the issue of the candidacy of the president of the RFU will be discussed at the next meeting of the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Now the sports minister recalls his merits as president of the RFU: positive financial balance Football Union, the bronze medal at the European Championships. However, apart from these successes in the federation were serious failures. First of all, I’m talking about skipping the 2010 World Cup, which was preceded by a humiliating defeat against Slovenia. Suffice it to recall that it was after the match in Maribor Dmitry Medvedev has banned state officials hold senior positions in state corporations and public organizations. Is the time of the ban has already gone? Interestingly Developments on the resignation of Guus Hiddink. Dutchman six months receive a salary, but once assembled a team for a friendly match with Hungary – said «Izvestia” Radionov.

different opinion General Director of the Moscow football federation Alexander Elders.

– Mutko – a worthy candidate who knows firsthand the Russian football. On the eve of the home World Cup is the most real person to guide the RFU. I do not see any problems for combining state and public activity – said «Izvestia” Elders.

RFU Mutko headed in 2005, succeeding President of the organization, Vyacheslav Koloskov. From 12 May 2008 to November 2009, he combined this post with the post of Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy. This time again Mutko told about the possibility of combining the posts, but noted that for this he must first obtain the approval of the state.

Election of the President of the RFU may be held in late summer. At the next executive committee of the Football Union (which will be held in the second half of June) will be considered an extraordinary conference of the RFU. It will take place in 2 months. During this time, candidates for a senior management position should submit their development programs.

So far, only the ex-coach of CSKA and Russian national team Valery Gazzaev announced his intention to run for the post RFU president. On the sidelines of possible candidates called Vladimir Leonchenko (Head of the Trade Union players and coaches), Vladimir Potanin (Russian businessman) and Igor Lebedev (State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party).

According Radionova, the new president of the RFU does not have to be a football man.

– The main quality of the RFU president should be the ability to create a team of professionals and associates. It does not have to be a football man. He’m not to play for the national team. We need a skilled manager who will try to combine all the actors of football. Perhaps it could be a man of business. The sooner this happens the better. On the nose the home World Cup. Within 2 years of Russia to take the Confederations Cup – concluded Radionov.

In addition to the Ministry of Sport, Vitaly Mutko, head of the organizing committee of the “Russia 2018″, and is a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.