The Russian Sports Ministry will render its assistance in the return of foreign footballers and specialists engaged in Russian football clubs as soon as a relevant document is approved, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Wednesday.
On Monday, President of the Russian Premier League (RPL) Sergei Pryadkin announced that the League and the Russian Football Union (RFU) sent a joint document to the Russian Sports Ministry requesting assistance in the return of foreign footballers and specialists from their countries to Russia in a bid to complete the suspended national tournament. As of today, Russia has a ban on foreigners’ entry to the country until May 1.
"I know that [RFU President] Alexander Dyukov maintains permanent contacts on the [resumption] of tournaments of football clubs," Matytsin said. "We [Russian Sports Ministry] are also working on this issue."
"This issue is about current restrictions on foreign footballers and experts’ entry to the territory of the Russian Federation," he continued. "The [Russian Sports] Ministry has drafted and submitted a relevant document for an approval, and as soon as we receive a response, which I hope will be positive, we will be offering our assistance in the settlement of this issue."
The RPL and RFU executive management held an online conference on Monday to discuss opportunities of restarting the national football tournament, which had been suspended due to the ongoing global spread of the novel coronavirus.
The RPL press service announced after the video link on April 27 that an agreement was reached to restart the championship either on June 21 or on June 28. RPL President Sergei Pryadkin said in an interview with Russia’s Match TV sports broadcaster on Tuesday that the majority of the league’s clubs opted for the resumption of the tournament on June 21.
Matytsin said the Russian Sports Ministry will provide all the necessary assistance to facilitate the completion of the national football tournament.
"We experience numerous difficulties beginning with such issue as permissions for foreign footballers to enter the country and ending with a problem of drafting regulations to organize matches without spectators," the minister added.
The RPL season was initially postponed from March 17 until April 10. The RFU Executive Committee extended on April 1 the postponement of all football matches in Russia, including RPL matches, until May 31.
Prior to the RPL shutdown the league’s clubs completed 22 out of 30 scheduled rounds of the championship. On April 1, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) recommended European football federations to complete halted tournaments.
In late December 2019, Chinese officials notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus — named COVID-19 by the WHO — have been reported in every corner of the globe, including Russia.
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. According to the latest statistics, over 3,150,000 people have been infected worldwide and more than 218,800 deaths have been reported. In addition, so far, over 965,500 individuals have recovered from the illness across the globe.
To date, a total of 99,399 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 10,286 patients having recovered from the virus. Russia’s latest data indicates 972 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation.
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