Oleg Tsymbalar: “We invite Glushakov to play in the League of Legends for Spartak and the Russian national team”

The son of the famous Spartak footballer Ilya Tsymbalar, Oleg Tsymbalar, told that the former captain of the “red and white” Denis Grushakova will be happy to see legends in championship matches as part of the Moscow club and the Russian national team.

On Saturday in Moscow, a meeting of the League of Legends League of Legends “Spartak-Moscow” – World Team took place in memory of Ilya Tsymbalar, the “red-whites” won – 2:1. After the match, Glushakov wrote that Oleg Tsymbalar invited him to participate in the match: “I will not say why I did not play and who decided it. You understand everything yourself.

“We will be happy to see Denis in the next League of Legends matches as part of Spartak and the Russian national team, we invite him to play,” Tsymbalar told .

According to , the reason for Glushakov’s absence from the match between the Spartak legends and the world team was the tense relations with Massimo Carrera and the red-white fans. Carrera was the World Team coach in the previous match. Glushakov was Spartak captain under Carrera; in 2017 they won the championship and the Russian Super Cup together. Later, because he had liked an article criticizing Carrera, Glushakov was transferred to the reserve team and left the club after a while.

The match involving star footballers is not the first organized by the Russian Football Union. In 2022, the legends of Spartak and Zenit from St. Petersburg played twice (in St. Petersburg and Moscow), in 2023, the veterans of Volgograd Rotor and the capital’s Dynamo, united into one Dynamo team from Stalingrad, played against Spartak. (in Volgograd), as well as famous Zenit players of the Russian national team (in St. Petersburg).