MOSCOW, February 3,. / Corr. Dilshad Lomovskikh TASS /. Candidate for the post of President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), the general secretary of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Gianni Infantino should support Russia as the host country of the 2018 World Cup. This opinion TASS expressed member of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU), chairman of the RFU Beach Soccer Sergey Anokhin Committee.
On Wednesday in Moscow hosted a meeting of the Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation, head of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko with Infantino, after which the head of the sports Minister said that the RFU Infantino support in the presidential elections of FIFA.
“We vse-taki Europe, and a representative of UEFA (Infantino) must support Russia. Moreover, our country – the mistress of the future world Cup (2018 ), and the new president of FIFA to go to first for him the world championship this status to Russia, “- Anokhin said
.” We are pleased that Infantino supports us in all endeavors I think that it will be constructive. operation including, for example, on the Crimean problem that we can not solve in the field of FIFA and UEFA It’s Russian territory, and must be addressed by her question “, -.. has added a member of the executive committee of the RFU
world Cup. 2018 will be held at 12 stadiums in 11 Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saransk, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Sochi, Kazan, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod) from 14 June to 15 July 2018.
Sergei Anokhin believes that Gianni Infantino should pay close attention to the development of beach soccer in case headed by FIFA.
“The question of the beach football is long overdue. FIFA holds the World Cup, but we have such a tournament like the European Championship. Yes, conducted Euroleague, which is organized by a commercial organization, but we want to get the official status of the European Championship this year “, – said Anokhin
.” Qualify for 2017 World Cup should be held in the status of the European Championships in the Bahamas . Only then we will get more attention from the press, television and will be able to extract the commercial component. So you want it to (Infantino) developed beach soccer is stronger than before, “- said a member of the executive committee of the RFU
In addition to Infantino, in the presidential elections of FIFA, which will be held in Zurich on 26 February will be attended by President of the Asian Confederation. football, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Prince of Jordan Al bin Al-Hussein, the former Minister of Housing of South Africa and associate building the Nelson Mandela Tokyo Sexwale and former Deputy General Secretary of FIFA Frenchman Jerome Champagne.
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