"Kommersant": Mutko will leave the post of President of the RFU

He will announce this next week - December 26.

On December 26, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko will announce that he was leaving the post of head of the Russian Football Union (RFU). According to the sources of Kommersant, the decision is associated with the “pressure” of FIFA “in connection with the doping crisis”.

According to the interlocutor of the publication, the resignation will be announced at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the RFU in order to "immediately resolve the issue with the successor of Mutko." The head of the RFU Committee on the identification of contractual matches Anzor Kavazashvili confirmed that the departure of Mutko was “not a secret”.

Among the potential successors of Mutko are called:

• Sergey Pryadkin, head of the Premier League;
• Sergey Anokhin, head of the Moscow Football Federation;
• Alexey Sorokin, head of the Organizing Committee "Russia-2018";

A source from Sorokin’s entourage confirmed the receipt of a proposal from the RFU, but "he was not enthusiastic about it." The interlocutors of the publication noted that Mutko himself advocated the appointment of the head of the Organizing Committee of Russia-2018.

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