Former defender of the USSR national football team Yevgeny Lovchev skeptical of the biathlete’s desire Daria Virolainen play for the Finnish national team.
Earlier, Virolainen said on : “Now it looks like a betrayal, but I’ve been living here for 6 years and I have no other choice. I’m 33, promising young people are being taken to the Russian national team, I am an elderly and sick woman for a long time by Russian biathlon standards, and I also have three children. I will only play for the Finnish national team if I am fit and ready for that.
— We always try to say that we don’t close the borders, we give visas and other things. We show that we are ordinary people. You have nothing to show anyone! They are [Запад] they got away from us, and now we think here.
The same Virolainen. She was Reztsova until recently. I took the name Virolainen to maybe play for Finland. Maybe, but I don’t know what’s on her mind. Reduced our athletes. I’m Russian, and that’s enough on its own! Lovchev told .
Virolainen, 33, is the daughter of three-time Olympic champion Anfisa Reztsova and the sister of Beijing 2022 bronze and silver medalist Kristina Reztsova. Virolainen missed last season due to pregnancy, before which she was on the World Cup podium twice.
Source : MatchTV
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