Foreign athletes belonging to a Russian club will be admitted into the country, the Russian government announced on Sunday. However, for affected athletes and leaders, two weeks quarantine applies when they return to Russia.

"The decision will help professional sports organizations, including football clubs in the Russian supremacy, to resume their workouts when easing the restrictions associated with the spread of the corona virus," the government said in a statement.

The men's high school football was paused in mid-March and the league start is set for June 21. Eight Swedes play there: Jordan Larsson (Spartak Moscow), Kristoffer Olsson, Viktor Claesson and Marcus Berg (Krasnodar), Carl Starfelt (Rubin Kazan), Denis Hadzikadunic (Rostov), ​​Filip Rogic (Orenburg) and Oscar Hiljemark (Dynamo Moscow).

Divided emotions

The other day, Spartak Moscow striker Larsson said the other day that he had dual feelings about returning to Russia, which had registered more than 280,000 corona cases on Sunday.

- It will be great fun to get started on football again, but at the same time I have heard that there are pretty big problems with the disease in Moscow. It is unpleasant in his way, he told Helsingborgs Dagblad.

To stop the spread of the corona virus, Russia closed its borders in March and stopped all international flights, with the exception of returning Russian citizens and foreigners who wanted to travel home.