Volgograd in a retro game again demonstrated that it is a great football city that deserves a team of the level of the Russian Premier League (RPL), the CEO of Dom.RF, the former president of the Russian Union of football and chairman of the organizing committee of the World Cup, told “Russia-2018” Vitaly Mutko .
In a match in Volgograd on May 1, star players of Spartak, Rotor and Dynamo Moscow re-enacted the match between Dynamo Stalingrad and Spartak Moscow in 1943. The match was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the battle of Stalingrad and took place in the Volgograd Arena, which hosted the matches of the 2018 World Cup. The meeting ended with the victory of “Spartak” with the score of 2:0.
— Do you like the retro game in Volgograd? Can we say that this is the legacy of the World Cup?
— We weren’t content to choose the cities for the World Cup, the challenge was: come, spend, leave a legacy for the development of football. Volgograd is a big football city and we built a stadium there. I remember how I flew to Volgograd with Zenit, and they drove us there, led by Veretennikov. I can’t wait for Rotor to come back to the Premier League and put together full stands at games,” Mutko told .
Watch live broadcasts of the MIR RPL and FONBET matches of the Russian Cup on the and MATCH PREMIER TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites. On Wednesday at 4:25 p.m. (Moscow time) on the channel, the final return match of the RPL route of the Russian Cup “Urals” – CSKA will begin to be broadcast.
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