Russia removes its captain after posting a sex video on networks

The captain of the Russian soccer team,

, has not been called up for the next matches with the national team after a video of a sexual nature of the Zénit striker leaked on the networks that has caused controversy.

The coach of the national team,

, considered that it was better "not to summon Artiom Dzyuba to the concentration to protect both the team and the footballer from tension and excessively negative publicity," as he explained in a tweet from the national team .

"Artiom will have time to normalize the situation," he added and stressed in another message that he has always insisted that both on and off the football field everyone must behave according to the "level and status of a player of the national team."

"The coaching staff of the national team fully understands that the team must prepare for the November games with Moldova, Turkey and Serbia in conditions of maximum concentration and without being distracted from outside things," Cherchesov also wrote when justifying his decision.

Dzyuba, 32,

absent

, respectively, according to the team's statement published in their website.

After the publication of the intimate video, in which Dzyuba appears alone,

: he was not the captain against Krasnodar (3-1) on Sunday and Dejan Lovren replaced him.

Despite the pressure on him and the insults shouted against him by some fans, the disgraced player scored a goal in the 79th minute.

"The most difficult game of my career"

In a message addressed to his fans on the social network Instagram, currently closed to the public, Dzyuba admitted that he alone is responsible for the current situation.

"This was perhaps my most difficult game of my career. I am not perfect and like anyone I make mistakes. We are all sinners, unfortunately, so (...) I can only blame myself," he said, according to the TASS agency.

"In these moments, when the whole world is away from you, I am enormously grateful to those who have supported me in such a difficult time and have been by my side: family, friends and even people I do not know," he said, at the time that he also thanked his teammates for supporting him.

The forward received multiple samples of support on Monday on social networks and on the country's television.

"The choir of moralists calls to deprive one of the best Russian strikers of his right to defend our flag," the host of a popular program on the public channel Rossia-1 said Monday.

"Anyone could be in his place, his phone was hacked, he had no intention of posting these images," he insisted.

Artem Dziuba has scored 26 goals in 47 international appearances.

"This is not done.

" said deputy Vitali Milonov, originally from Saint Petersburg, the city of the club where the striker, Zenit, plays.

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