The communications director of the Syrian Football Association, Emad Amiri, has confirmed that a friendly match against the Russian football team will be held during the November FIFA window.
“We agreed with the RFU on a friendly match between the Syrian and Russian national teams. Today we can officially announce that the game will take place on November 19 in Russia. The only thing left to choose is the stadium for this match: we choose between Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Volgograd. In the near future, the Russian team and I will agree on the exact location of the match.” — the official told the Sport24 portal.
For his part, the director of the Nigerian Football Federation Jairo Pachón announced the possibility of holding a friendly match with the Russian national team in 2025:
“We have exclusive rights to organize meetings with Russian teams next year. Our agents and intermediaries are working with the RFU to organize friendly matches for our countries’ national teams during the upcoming holidays of 2025. Work is underway to organize a friendly match between the top teams of Nigeria and Russia. Therefore, that fight is possible.”
And the Pakistan Football Federation reported that they had not received a response from the Russian Football Union regarding next month’s national team friendly match:
“The Pakistani team is not planning any training camp in November. Having rejected the RFU’s offer for a match in October due to time restrictions and other reasons, we have requested to hold the match in November, but at the moment there is no response from the RFU. But we are prepared to play away from home against the Russian team. “There is no deadline for the RFU to respond to the national team meeting.”
By the way, Communications Officer of the Team Department of the Sri Lanka Football Federation. Sudat Sampat He also talked about a possible friendly match for the national team against the Russians and uttered the key phrase:
“If Russia sends us a proposal, we will definitely consider it. “Sri Lanka is always willing to play international friendlies, but to play against a country like Russia, we first need to get approval from FIFA.”
Do you understand where the “dog” was rummaging? That’s all. And I want to see Moscow for free, earn some money, receive new boots as a gift (Cubans bought cool shoes in Volgograd), but on the other hand, it’s a little scary. Suddenly FIFA will swear. Lord, what difficult times we have lived in!
And it is no coincidence that the defender of Dynamo Makhachkala and the Russian national team Valentin Paltsev I am not happy with the prospect of a friendly match between the national team and the Media League team:
“I agree that it was impossible to hold a match between the Russian national teams and the Media League. Who knows what goes through the minds of the people who get away with it. “They could break it.”
They can give you something to drink. There the guys fight bravely and don’t care who is on the field, whether a player from the national team or a coach from Pyaterochka. I don’t think we should risk the legs of our best leather ball masters.
In turn, the CSKA defender Igor Diveev He also shared his emotions from the meeting. And he said that the team, left without rivals, held open training in Moscow, inviting children from Kursk and Belgorod:
“Let’s not compare. This is a children’s event so I won’t compare it to Pakistan. Now we played with the children, it was great. Emotions from the collection? Of course, it was regular, because we were going to play a friendly match with a rival, but that’s how it turned out, the match was canceled and this event took place. “We still had a great time.”
Meanwhile, EADaily reported that during the October FIFA window, RFU officials were unable to find opponents for the national team, because the Pakistanis jumped in at the last minute and other countries offered to hold “freight trains” later.
Here is the former coach of the Russian football team. Sergei Balakhnin and speaks of a decrease in motivation valeria karpina as coach of the national team in the absence of official matches:
“Karpin is certainly losing motivation to work with the national team. The players are also losing it, but this is inevitable in the current situation. Whatever matches you organize now, if they are not official, this will cause a general decrease in interest in the national team. All these matches that the team has now are just for exhibition. The Russian national team now has many options, but Karpin said that he is not a supporter of club matches and that the rivals of the national teams will be weak for a long time.”
It is worth remembering here that, by decision of FIFA and UEFA, the Russian team has been suspended from all international tournaments since March 1, 2022. The team missed the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2024 European Championship in Germany.
