“Football in Russia has ceased to be a sport and has turned into commerce. He became like show business: the same rotten, wretched and faceless. It’s better to watch hockey, ”Sportbox quotes Grebenshchikov.
In his opinion, the 2018 World Cup instilled in the fans false hopes regarding the level of Russian players. He also noted that in the qualifying round of the European Championship 2020, the Russian team had only one strong opponent, against which it could not show anything.
Earlier, the famous coach Rashid Rakhimov named the reasons for the defeat of the Russian team from Belgium.