Dear Sergey!

                  Russian Football Premier League would like to send you our most heartfelt wishes on your anniversary!

You have been the head of the Premier League for more than 8 years. You managed to do quite a lot during this short period. The League is among the top six leagues in Europe.

New up-to-date stadia are inaugurated, supporters feel more and more comfortable and safe at the matches. Standards of the Championship broadcasting have been essentially changed, now it is broadcasted in more than 70 countries of the world. A lot of attention is paid to social programmes, development of grassroots and youth football.

You work a lot for popularization of the Russian football in Europe and all over the world, you are in EPFL Board of Directors, you are a member of UEFA Strategic Committee for Professional Football, as well as UEFA Committee for Players Status and Agents. The well-deserved respect of the RFPL in Europe can mostly be credited to you.

Football leaves nobody indifferent. Sometimes it is very difficult to be at the end of the spear, keep pressing of criticism, and to take a stand, but you have to do it every day.

Your professionalism, composure and self-possession in most uneasy situations, your ability to take balanced decisions and find common language with all representatives of football society allow you to work for the good of our favourite game for many years.

From the bottom of our hearts we wish you a lot of health, happiness, luck and new wins! Let peace and well-being always be with your family!