Putin to the rescue of the Russian league: nationalization of Brazilians and a pichichi accused of attempted murder

An Amsterdam court awaits the top scorer of the Russian league this Friday to try him for attempted murder.

Spartak Moscow's Dutch striker Quincy Promes was arrested in December 2020 for stabbing a cousin in the knee during a family gathering in Abcoude, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, while being investigated for his involvement in the purchase. of

But after those facts, Promes, has found happiness in Russia.

After a very brief stint at Sevilla, after being sold by Ajax to the Russians and ruled out by Van Gaal for the World Cup due to his problems with the law, at 31 Promes has become the main attraction of the Russian league

which it restarts next week after the winter break, and which is trying to survive a year after the war, after the flight of dozens of footballers and sponsors, and with their teams expelled from international competitions.

With the invasion of Ukraine, FIFA allowed foreigners who had been trapped in the country to terminate their contracts, and they did so, going from the 1,130 million

at which the squads of the 16 teams were valued before the invasion, at the 750 that are currently worth, according to Transfermarkt.

Karsnodar lost eight players.

The Rubin Kazan to seven.

And since the league did not stop, like the Ukrainian one, it ended up descending.

Most teams have been left with just enough to go out and compete.

Stars like the Georgian

are now triumphing in Naples.

Some Russian footballers changed their nationality because of what could happen.

Sazonov, from Dynamo Moscow, became a Georgian.

Spertsyan, from Krasnodar, Armenian.

Quincy Promes posing in Moscow's Red Square.@qpromes

Others, however, have taken the opposite path.

The Russian press came to speculate that Quincy Promes would become a Russian to avoid the four years in prison he faces in the Netherlands, taking advantage of the fact that Russian justice prohibits the extradition of his citizens.

As soon as he arrived at Spartak, the Dutchman said that he was contemplating that possibility: "Why not, if he had the chance."

The 33-year-old Sevillian

formed in the Barça youth academy with

, has gone from boycotting Russia and has been the Spartak coach since last June.

He has under his orders another player raised in the culé quarry, the Senegalese

, who was left without a world cup for violating anti-doping laws.

Spartak allowed themselves to troll Barça on their social networks, and even the alleged boycott of the Russian league, after hiring him: "

The Brazilians from Zenit,

, and the former Barça player

have just received the go-ahead from

's government to obtain Russian nationality.

"He made the players very happy, now we are waiting for the date for the swearing-in ceremony to be set," Zenit general manager Alexandr Medvedev announced.

Malcolm came to Russia from Barça for

, and was about to leave after a few days due to racist attacks.

Now, at 25, he is competing with Quincy Promes for Russian league stardom, which has been reduced to Zenit against Spartak.

That is, a St. Petersburg against Moscow.

That is, to

.

The rivalry is such that the Russian Cup tie last November ended with a tangana and six expelled.

Quincy Promes started the fight, and Malcolm was among those who saw the red.

The Russian carmaker Lada at the presentation of a sponsorship agreement with Zenit.@zenit_spb

The Brazilian has 12 goals and five assists, while the Dutchman is the top scorer with

Malcolm's good season has made

want him this winter market , but Zenit, with whom he has a contract until 2027, refused to sell.

Now the news is that he has become Russian.

"At first I thought it was a joke, I guess they like it here," his Zenit teammate, Russian international Daler Kuzyaev, blurted out somewhat stunned.

Brazil is the country that currently contributes the most foreigners to the Russian championship, with 17, seven of them at Zenit, and it is not ruled out that some more will follow the path of Malcolm and Claudinho.

Both had been taken by the Brazil coach Tite to the 2021 Olympics, where Malcolm precisely scored

However, in another call with Brazil to play three qualifying matches for the World Cup, Zenit made them return to Russia and both obeyed for fear of reprisals, which cost them, first a FIFA sanction, and then Tite decided leave them without a World Cup.

The absence of the Russian teams in Europe has caused a flight of sponsors, while a gas company and an oil company support Zenit and Spartak,

supports Lokomotiv.

These days Zenit announced an agreement with the

automobile company , and with a flour manufacturer.

Although the greatest damage is caused by the abandonment of Nike, which meant that teams like Spartak had to do without their team in the second division.

At the moment many are still wearing the kit of this brand from last season but it will be replaced by Bigser Sport, a kit manufacturer based in Kyrgyzstan.

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