“Not everyone wants to see the Russians at home” – volleyball player Mikhailov on Europe’s proposals

The leader of the Kazan “Zenith” and the Russian national volleyball team, Olympic champion Maxim Mikhailov says he’s had offers from Europe, but not the loudest ones.

– There were proposals from Europe, but I wouldn’t say they were loud. I don’t know how the system works there. Anyway, few of us from Russia play abroad – only a few in my career. Maybe there are agents or people working on both sides. I probably regret not having played in Europe back then, but there weren’t any great offers either.

I’m not surprised at anything. Especially since I have a lot of experience. I understand how it all works, especially now, in our time, and over the past five or six years. There is a biased attitude towards Russia: in terms of doping stories, scandals and political and economic things. Maybe that’s why not everyone wants to see us at home. But we cannot know for sure, we are athletes, we are doing our job,” Mikhailov told the Championship.

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