Former Moscow “Spartak” and “Krasnodar” football player Maxim Demenko highlighted the positive and negative aspects of the naturalization of Brazilian football players from St. Petersburg “Zenith” Malcolm And claudinho .
On Tuesday, the press service of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation told that Zenit had completed the necessary paperwork for Malcolm and Claudinho to obtain Russian citizenship.
– If players want to get Russian citizenship and continue playing for the national team, I think that’s a plus.
There are also disadvantages. Today we cannot raise good players alone who could compete with Malcolm and Claudinho. If the Brazilians come to the Russian team, they will expel any of our players. But that’s the reality. I think that if a person wants, then he has to prove his game. If we cannot create some kind of competition in the national team now, then this is the best option,” Demenko quotes Vprognoze.ru.
Malcolm has been with the Bleu-Blanc-Blues since 2019, Claudinho since 2021.
Zenit in the first match after the break will play away with Ulyanovsk Volga in the quarter-finals of the FONBET Cup of Russia. The meeting will take place on February 25. Watch the live broadcast of the match starting at 2:25 p.m. Moscow time on the and MATCH PREMIER TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Vprognoze.ru
Source : MatchTV
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