The RPL does not have balls of any color other than white, which was provided by the league’s technical sponsor, a former FIFA referee told MATCH PRIME. Sergei Lapochkin .
On Wednesday, Baltika and Spartak played the 16th round match of the MIR RPL with a white ball on a snow-covered field in Kaliningrad. The match ended with a score of 2:0 in favor of the guests.
—Why was the ball white? It seems to me that this problem had to be solved, because the ball, of course, was not contrasting. I have spoken to the referees now, they say there is no other ball. The league received these footballs and was told they would last the entire season. Yes, we see that this ball is useless, it is not visible in the snow.
I had to put the game aside for an hour and see how the heating was doing. If an hour passed and nothing changed, simply cancel the game. Television pays huge sums of money to teams for images. We all wanted to watch football, but here we saw something other than football. Why was it necessary to force footballers to play? This exposes them to risks. And we saw that Baltika goalkeeper Borisko was injured. The photo spoils the image of our football, there are reserve days, the match had to be postponed.
Why did Spartak play in white uniform? The kits are agreed within a few days. “Spartak sent a white kit, then did not take the red kit to Kaliningrad,” Lapochkin said on MATCH PRIME.
Live broadcasts of MIR RPL matches can be watched on the and MATCH PREMIER TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
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