The whole world looks forward to football festival

On Wednesday, 12 July, Russian Football Premier League jointly with the Football Union of Russia and RFPL partners had a press-conference related to kick-off of ROSGOSSTRAKH Russian Football Championship season 2017-2018 at TASS.

At the beginning of the event an official signing of a contract between RFPL and BC Liga Stavok took place. Liga Stavok is the General partner of the Russian Football Championship in Betting and Gambling categories. Premier League President Sergey Pryadkin and Liga Stavok President Yury Krasovskiy signed the contract.

Speakers – Sergey Pryadkin, FUR CEO Alexander Alaev, Advisor for Legal Matters to the FUR President Denis Rogachev, ROSGOSSTRAKH Marketing Vice President Mikhail Ryumin and Yury Krasovskiy – spoke about their vision of the upcoming season.

 «A fantastic season is waiting for is, - said Sergey Pryadkin. – Next summer a remarkable event will take place in our country – FIFA World Cup 2018. The whole world looks forward a football festival. So I would like to apply to all supporters with the request to support their teams at the stadia in a civilized way, to avoid any negative manifistations. The whole world is closely following us. This season extended geography of the tournament – SKA-Khabarovsk has its debut in the Premier League. The Football Union of Russia, Russian Football Premier League and Khabarovsk administration have done a great job and now the club infrastructure corresponds to the high requirements of the RFPL».

«The current Championship of Russia will be a special one, as it will start just before FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, - Alexander Alaev said. – We shall have all together Russian Championship and after that FIFA World Cup 2018 at the highest possible level, as it was with FIFA Confederations Cup 2017. Those who had come to FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 to find our shortcomings, said that everything was ideal. We are doing a great job inside – it relates to training of referees, development of regulations and many other things. We are looking forward to the Russian Championship kick-off and competition in every match».

RFPL Commercial Director Pavel Suvorov presented a new match from technical sponsor Nike.

After that the speakers replied to numerous questions of media representatives.