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The Russian Sports Minister Vitaliy Mutko stepped down as the president of the Russian Football Union yesterday. Mutko’s top deputy Nikita Simonyan will serve as interim chief until February 3, when the new president will be elected at the extraordinary meeting of the union.
Right after yesterday’s meeting of the RFU executive committee Vitaliy Mutko answered journalists’ questions.
"The President Dmitriy Medvedev recently announced that all sports federations must be run by full-time professionals and presidents of sports federations leave their posts nowadays", said Mutko. "It concerned eleven federations out of 128 in our country as their presidents stepped down from their posts".
"The extraordinary meeting will be held on February 3 instead of April, and I am going to back candidature of the federation’s interim chief Nikita Simonyan".
"Members of executive committee asked me whether I thought about leaving the post of the minister and stay the RFU president. I love football very much and I am faithful to this sport, and that is why I will keep an eye on it in future".
"Prior to the match with Germany we made a new offer to the Russian national team’s head coach Guus Hiddink".
"On our way back from Maribor we agreed that Guus would make his decision on his future in our team as soon as possible. We also agreed to meet before the end of the year and make the final decision, because we will need to plan the training camp in February, possible opponents for friendly games and other vital issues".
"We are linked with Guus Hiddink by acting contract and we are waiting for his decision".
