serious sponsors celebrity players and millions of dollars worth of broadcasting contracts however the problem of hooliganism still damages the reputation of russian term prove the situation press kit is working with british experts who have a considerable experience in dealing with the halting problem this season the league is replacing the police inside the stadiums with stewards generally more effective in figuring out the trouble. with that particular missed approach can in welcome to the show let's go straight to russia's poor showing at euro two thousand and twelve which was widely considered to be a fluke and is by russian fans in the head of the russian football union city if i had to step down in one of your interviews you said it was a wrong decision why. you know i remember the meeting with the force in korea and you kuhn in

a member of the union's executive committee and president of the russian railways company that said that it's not just the union's boss but all of the committees members who must take the blame. since they are actually the supreme governing body in charge of the russian football however could decide ok the buck stops here but i'm still confident it was a wrong decision on his part. i'm quite positive about mr force think i know him personally i've done a couple of interviews with him i personally feel that he did what he was supposed to do very often in russia people in charge are reluctant to step up to the plate well that's exactly what mr ferguson could do so the question is do you think officials really bear any responsibility for the thompson flops on the pitch do they need to be held accountable for the results or not. i agree that officials are responsible for the. team's performance. but the main

responsibility i think rests with the coach but in. the job of a high ranking official. for example the head of the russian football union like mr force and co was pitching is to provide sufficient funding. arrange for the accommodation facilities to fly to kids and kids for all the players. you're one of the high level functionaries in the russian football but the thing is that in private conversations a foreign coach is managing some of the russian teams often complain that they have their hands tied here in russia and it's because of the conditions they face which is responsible for the conditions maybe they are throwing to you or your colleagues . i guess is more likely than they are talking about their team's management although it's still downfall. i'm an old timer and affordable and know from

experience that qualified coaches and we are now talking about foreign ones. are usually offered contracts where every detail is hammered out so i think it's a bit of an exaggeration on their part of course they're under pressure to win and be the national or international championship. there's been a lot of buzz about the two thousand and fourteen sochi olympics it's no more than five hundred days away but in six years time russia is going to host the football world cup does russia have the plays capable of win it because obviously it's aiming for the trophy do we have the young hopefuls who can do it that i'm a put in one sense we can do it or do you say yes we can. first of all sergei force and go hide-n. to find that goal even before he was officially elected president of the russian.

union well that's a noble cause and we all have the desire to win. of course we do have young hopefuls many of them playing the national under twenty one team trained by new. muscles when these guys grow up we can expect them to take part in their championship. they must be around fourteen or fifteen now right. not that young a bit older than that twenty or maybe twenty one. so you think that in order to take part in the world cup these guys have to be mature grown up men well they will have reached their prime at that moment for at eighteen they're still budding footballers. in other words well known players like neymar and oscar have yet to grow up well you know each football player reaches his prime in his own

time. and recall the live the current coach of dinamo sco started playing as part of the team when he was sixteen so i think those on the roaster of the national youth team today will most likely be the backbone of our twenty eight hundred squad has this right to host this championship boosted the young players motivation. do you feel they now have more at that site of course the prospect of hosting the twenty eight hundred world cup on home soil has proved to be a strong motivation for players and also for the governors all the regions which were picked as venues for the games. i have been in charge of the premier league for five years now. and i have to admit that our sports facilities leave a lot to be desired so hosting the championship will give us. an extra push to

upgrade the facilities where these youngsters are supposed to play in twenty eighteen. now here's a different point let's talk about money. following our team's failure in the latest european championship the fans vented their anger on the internet over enormous bonuses that the players earned regardless of their performance they all gets that they were only too happy to take this money away and go on holiday sooner than planned so do you think it is ethical to pay for those millions of dollars a year no matter how well they perform. that well. that's a fact of life now but do you think it's right i don't think i'm in a position to comment on this i haven't seen the personal contracts of these players and i don't know what bonuses they received for playing in the european championship where russia have played a total of three games. so i can't really comment on this simply because i don't

have all the information anyway during international events players must russia's prestige first. you brought up the issue of salaries but actually being a football player. is an extremely demanding job. but it's not officially on the least after professions they are usually broadly qualified as professional athletes but it's actually a very challenging profession sometimes an injury at a very young age can leave players crippled for the rest of their lives. but again in case of world or european championships players should prestige first and their hard work should be rewarded accordingly what now that you've mentioned the word job one of the basic things russian fans are unhappy over is that play is seem to

treat football only like a high paying job that's right at the private produce of a feeling that in spite of enormous salaries english or see brazilian players still take it as a game. i think it's mostly fans who take it as a game. and the players don't believe it's a job. so is it like you can say no then i will play and they will just siphon off money from me. no it's not like that first and foremost players must treat their job very seriously. even the one to see fans coming to the stadium to cheer for them they must put in their bast performance show a high level of team chemistry and a desire to find for every ball. otherwise people would maybe watch the game on t.v. but never show up at the stadium. is there stellar play that must grab

the attention of millions of people and convince them that it's really a challenging job i think it should be a two way street we come to watch their brilliance and they reveal that brilliance through their hard work. right before the show we've brought of some not stories stories from the world of football and among them we mentioned how the tellin you vince is was really gated from syria aid to syria be a relegation subscribe read and read shrieking these teams stayed with the club even though their salaries were cut five filled and the prospects were no longer clear they did it because they remained loyal to their club is now we've sais anything petersburg were downgraded in a similar way. do you think all of their plays would stay with the club. well you know. it's mainly about the team spirit within the club but in fact

in russia we have seen similar stories often enough a few players will stay with their teams after they have been kicked out of the premier league into the football national league. of course it's not true for football stars that both european and russian clubs had holland for. what it was but it was but a lot of players do stay. ventus for example has a lot of loyal players partly due to the atmosphere cultivated in the club i also think the club management did a great job to sustain this team spirit says city past president of the russian premier league spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in the.

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. welcome back to spotlight i'll do know of and just to remind you that my guest on the show today is said agapit african president of the russian football premier league mr president you began talking about loyalty you know there's one thing that has kept me confused russian football has opened up to the world and we've seen this free flow of players in and out of the country but this thing is i've been a massive fan of dinamo school all by life because as a kid i used to live next to the stadium and in those days my father and dog went to watch the play but today i'm confused just like my father in law to use in the

military these wondering what has happened to see this game remember it stands for the central sports club of the army now there are hardly any russian place in the cisco line up let alone anyone from the military of course it's a fact of life and we have to face it's because we think it's ok. this is a fact of life as you say times have changed when you were a child some of your friends must have been fans of spartak moscow indeed the change is something that you have to accept that you do like these kind of changes i would like to see more russian players in russian clubs of course. football is increasingly turning into show business in many aspects. well it is football it is actually show business the game is a shown itself but when i was it seeing some of my friends supported you know mckee if that was so shocking and you saw how can a muscovite supported scene from key of i was there for. you to do my son is

a fan of it's a loser venters and no one is outraged that this is something we have to live with . i would absolutely love to see more russian players in the teams. but again we have to live with it because unfortunately the crisis that took place in the ninety's the decrease in the birth rate know a different one which one i mean the training system of young players completely collapsed but in your. professional training right that's why we don't have enough russian players i mean our coaching standards have sacked yes and it takes time to fix the problem but we're coping gradually first our youth team i mentioned earlier in the show has made good progress also football clubs have begun to invest more in their food bowl academies and these are the incubators where new russian players are trained so let's take

a look now at one of this year's biggest scandals in russian football and a report by spotlight. it all started with one of russia's strongest st petersburg's the need to chasten big stars brazil and belgian axel would sue. one hundred million dollars this true gnomic some paid by the gas prone sponsored club who's to be cross among the fans and this tour within the team the captain eager to listen demanded a pay rise implying he was no worse than the newcomers who went as far as refusing to take part in one of the recent games for a nice the captain's main argument home and would so get three times more than their team mates but their presence hasn't yet raised the team to any new heights and that's a fact is in need haven't won any of this three games in the national championship since the new players arrived in st petersburg even more humiliating was the three new defeat to malaga in the champions league group stage but the management seems

to know better than the club that and these of and also alexander kers are profile supported his captain was sent to train with the nets reservists as a punishment for disturbing lies in the team or all of this initiated a public debate in russia concerning recruiting foreign players some see it's the only way to progress on the international arena such market leads to further degradation of national sports. now let's discuss this scandal that's even the sports minister has commenced a don't want is your stance on vats do you think eager denise of and alexander cares recall of. really had any reason to speak out like that or it was a bad thing we. should have shut up humans. was likeable with and i don't think it's a good idea for me to comment on this mission zennie it's shareholder is also

a shareholder of the russian premier league and they are very good managers. it's how big sponsor of course is gas from. well the clubs managers are. people side is trained by a very qualified coach conflict so i wouldn't like to comment on the conflict right now. but i can say that these are two leading russian players who have also contributed a lot to the national team as well and so that's why the whole thing is upsetting. yeah i can understand the frustration of eager denice of these the camps and both in the club and the national team is reported to be earning about two million dollars hulk is paid about five million how do you see that's hulk's price tag for

the club management chose to buy him a monk other european for blues and the market price do you put it on and many other clubs want to buy him too but denise if he's not somebody that clubs like porter barcelona are interested in the costs as much as he's worth so why does he think he should be paid the same this is a market place isn't it. has the news of made any comments on this. you can ask him yourself. i wish i could hear his side of the story but because i think he claims he didn't do it because of money he just doesn't like the idea of foreign plays being paid more it's not up to ego denisov to discuss the actions of his carbon team management and why they're doing this or that all right i'll rephrase the question a bit in russia foreign food bill is usually gets higher wages than russians do you think that's ok. can we do something advances and should we. know in the

u.k. for instance the situation is very different. in french football in the u.k. will hardly be paid more than say rooting for the poor everyone is judged by their merits. my first argument my second argument is that we do have excellent russian players who earn more than foreigners. in a russian club yes in a russian club also you know every contract contains some terms that are strictly confidential but it was i don't know whether this outburst was driven by emotions it's the club's business everything depends on the players skills and qualifications but like you said it's ok to invite a foreign player in order to strengthen the teams. after all no one is going to invite a player to weaken the team. and anyway there is

a certain limit on foreign players in place. in a recent interview you say that by easing the limits on foreign players we can promote healthy competition among our own players but but in another interview you also said i quote a lot of players are no longer seeking to evolve in fact they are going backwards unquote. so what if you overdo it but if buzzing football stars in russia may say in despair ok what if we're replaced by another hawk and then in brazil for example there are a great many poor boys well a very good football. well you know i can't really agree with you here because i still think that way. and we've had numerous debates on the issue. without doubt competition is

a great incentive and here's a story to prove my point because in one of their europa league matches goose heeding the dutch coach of football club on jima. nine russian. players out on the pitch hiddink is a very experienced coach and he used to work with the russian national team so it means he picked russians because they were in better shape for a better collison summer let's all muster for the new oh no they have a long bench so comforting is a must i mean healthy competition of course because we have players like a leg shot of our simulate a shove and other young russian players who play shoulder to shoulder with eto these are our young hopefuls who will most probably reach their peak form right in time for the twenty eighteen world cup my wife sometimes says things that i have to agree with for example she wonders how one can play football in a winter country like ours where cold weather last nine months. while we've been

much better talking we called boost ice a snow wall year alone. so why are hockey players so good in the n.h.l. and recognized internationally while our football teams are more like a wallflower. was the reason. could you please tell your wife became the world champion in beach food bowl they beat brazil in the final remember how brazilians used to say the russians would win a football trophy only when brazilians become hockey champions all prisoners are also among the world's best sports. and russian paralympians did really well of the paralympics it takes time it really takes time for our footballers to rise to the same highs as hockey players but they will succeed in particular thanks to the

investment into schools and academies that's coming from the owners including private owners of the premier league clubs. eventually this money will pay off but there's also a point to be made about sponsors. people say the russian clubs are financed primarily by local authorities who sometimes indirectly and that's russian food bull in a way is actually state funded. the problem is critical indeed especially for the lower leagues this was actually one of the key reasons why in two thousand and one the leading clubs decided to establish the premier league it was important to provide sustainable funding for the clubs so that their place in the least table would be only determined by their performance and not the finances . it's true that clubs have different business structures and some of them indeed

are owned by regional or municipal authorities. so we're working to switch from public to private funding it is more transparent they don't have kick backs or other more processes and there is more control over expenses and finally them manage more efficiently these are the benefits that private capital brings along the people thank you thank you very much for being with us in just a reminder that my guest on the show today was. the president of the russian football league and that's it for now from the spotlight will be back with more. on what's going on outside russia and our team and take it.

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