Participation Russian team in the inaugural Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) championship will bring the Russian Football Union (RFU) significantly closer to joining the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), a former member of the executive committee and development committee of the RFU. Alisher Aminov .
Tajikistan Football Federation press secretary Faridun Saliev told on Monday that the Russian team will participate in the CAFA championship. Later, the RFU clarified that it was only discussing the possibility and conditions of participation in the tournament.
— After Alexander Dyukov’s trip to Bahrain for the AFC Congress, there are no serious steps to bring Russia and Asian football closer together. It is clear that Russia has no prospects in UEFA over the next five years. I think such a tournament will be a big step towards the integration of the RFU in Asia. When there will be such a tournament, it is very good news, it will become quality training for national team players. The matches in Bishkek, Dushanbe and Tashkent showed that the local teams are a real competitor for the Russians, Aminov told a correspondent.
At the end of December, the RFU’s executive committee raised the question of a possible transfer of the organization to the AFC. Later, together with UEFA, it was decided to create a working group, the purpose of which is to draw up a roadmap for the rapid return of Russian teams to international tournaments.
Source : MatchTV
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