Former coach of Dynamo and Krylya Sovetov Andrei Kobelev in an interview with , he said that against the background of the isolation of Russian football, the national team management must decide on a development strategy.
At the end of February 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russian teams and clubs from participating in international tournaments due to the situation in Ukraine. The RFU considered the possibility of moving to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), but it was decided to set up a working group with the participation of representatives from UEFA and FIFA, which will discuss the prospects in more detail. Russian football. On February 1, 2023, the AFC Congress was held in Manama (Bahrain), where the head of the RFU, Alexander Dyukov, was present.
– In what form do you think the Russian team should exist under current conditions?
– I would not like to discuss the actions of Karpin, but now we have to decide: either only young people, or only the best.
From my point of view, the national team is a litmus test. Whether we are suspended or not, the best of the moment must be called up. Not for the future, not the ones the technical staff wants to see, but the best! What difference does it make if we play or not? And tomorrow we’ll start playing – so what? “Young people, go home, now we need old people” – right? Well, don’t laugh at us! All this history with the Russian team today is a parody of our football.
We have players in the national team who don’t always even play in their clubs’ starting line-up. When was it?! I made the most assists in the league, but they still didn’t call me because there were others. Now it happens that every other person plays every other time – and he is in the national team. This is similar to the Brazilian situation – there the player is invited to the team for one match, and then he is pushed to Europe as a football player of the Brazilian national team, – Kobelev told .
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Source : MatchTV
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