Russia and everything around it right now is stinking. FIFA pulled Russia out of the World Cup playoffs in Qatar (who should have played against Poland), like their clubs were excluded from European competitions. PBut the fact that the football planet is taking a hiatus due to the world championship dispute does not matter to Russian football. There is no Russian Premier League but there is a Russian Cup. They do not have international problems. Only two players Lovren (Zenit) and Nicolas Moumi Ngamaleu (Dinamo Moscow) They have managed to get around the veto against Russia and have been able to play the World Cup with Croatia and Cameroon, respectively.
While, the great teams of Russia: Dinamo, Zenit, Spartak, Krasnodar, Lokomotivc, Khimki continue their season as if nothing had changed. The domestic league competition does not return until March, when the general winter passes in Soviet lands, but they have taken the opportunity to play Russian Cup matches (there are several round-trip matches in the group stage).
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The idea of ​​leaving Russia alone and cornering it also affects the national team. The group trained by Valery Karpin has real problems to be able to play friendly matches. Since she was expelled from the Nations League by Aleksander Ceferin’s UEFA. In September he played with Kyrgyzstan (2-1) with victory and the pre-World Cup team break against Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, with a double draw without goals. He only manages to play matches with better teams and with a certain geo-political relationship with the Kremlin.
A World Cup that they cannot enjoy but is not alien to the Russian press, which Yes, it is doing an exhaustive follow-up of the matches of each day. This Wednesday there was a lot of space in the sports press for Spain’s win over Costa Rica.