Artem Dzyuba comes out of his silence.

The captain of the Russian team, eliminated from the FIFA World Cup due to the invasion of Ukraine, denounced on Wednesday what he described as a "double standard" on the part of sports bodies, which boycott overwhelmingly Russia.

“I am against double standards.

Why some have all the rights while we are accused of all the evils.

Why is everyone always shouting that sports and politics shouldn't be confused but, at the first opportunity, when it comes to Russia, this principle is completely forgotten?

“, asks the player of Zenit Saint-Petersburg in a message on Instagram.

Proud to be Russian

After the attack on Ukraine by the Russian army, many international federations decided to ban Russian athletes from their competitions.

This is the case of Fifa, which excluded Russia from the qualifying play-offs for the 2022 World Cup.

“I am against discrimination based on nationality.

I'm not ashamed to be Russian.

I am proud to be Russian.

And I don't understand why athletes have to suffer now,” he wrote, lamenting “the wickedness, filth and bile that is now being poured out on all Russians” and emphasizing that “war is horrible”.

The words of the Russian captain also appear as a response to the Ukrainian footballer of West Ham Andriy Yarmolenko who castigated Tuesday evening on the same network the silence of the Russian players by asking them the following question: “why are you sitting like idiots … and do not say anything ?

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Emphasizing that he did not want to start with "not to comment on what is happening in Ukraine" because he is "not a political expert", Dzyuba therefore reacted but not to express his solidarity with the victims of war.

“Peace and goodness to all”

To “thousands of people who write humiliating and threatening messages”, the player declares: “it seems doubly strange to me to hear all this coming from people who have received much, much in their lives from Russia.

It only reinforces the negative feeling, ”said the player.

“PS: and to some of my little work colleagues, who sit on their butts in their mansions in England and talk dirt, it can't affect us, we understand everything,” writes Dzyuba, who concludes his text with a “Peace and kindness to all!

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