Mutko resigned as President of the RFU
. Vitaly Mutko resigned as the President of the Russian football Union, informs the official Twitter of the RFU.
Acting head of the organization was the President of the Russian football Premier League Sergey Pryadkin. New President of the RFU chooses to extraordinary report-back election conference which will be held February 22, 2019. Pryadkin said that will not participate in the elections. The same position was expressed by Sergey Anokhin, Vice President of the RFU.
the CEO of the organizing Committee "Russia-2018" Alexei Sorokin, for its part, did not want to explain their plans for the election of the President of the RFU.
on the first day of the week, a source familiar with the situation told Last news that can change Mutko the head of the Board of Directors of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" Alexander djukov.
Mutko headed RFS from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, he was again elected President of the organization, and in 2016, re-elected for a term of four years.
at the end of last year the Executive Committee of the international Olympic Department banned him for life from participation in the Olympic games in any capacity. Mutko has challenged this decision in Sports arbitration court (CAS) and six months at the time stopped the work on the post of the President of the RFU. At the time the Acting head of the organization was appointed Alexander Alaev.
Wednesday in the House of football in the capital of Russia held a meeting of the Executive Committee of the RFU. It was decided about leaving Mutko.
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