Vasily Utkin will commentate on European Championship matches on Channel One

Channel One agreed with commentator Vasily Utkin on cooperation during the 2016 European Football Championship. This was reported by the R-Sport agency, citing a source on the TV channel. The first match Utkin will work on will be the meeting between the national teams of Russia and England on June 11.

“Together with Utkin, Viktor Gusev and Andrey Golovanov will go to France,” the R-Sport interlocutor said.

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• The 2016 European Football Championship will be held in France from 10 June to 10 July. The Russian national team in the group stage of the tournament will play with England, Slovakia and Wales.
• Vasily Utkin in January 2016 was suspended from commenting on the Match-TV channel. He soon announced his resignation. In March, it became known that Utkin would work on the Eurosport TV channel and in the Soviet Sport newspaper.