What happened?
On July 25, in the popular football Telegram channel “Mutko vs.,” which is hosted by Baza journalist Gleb Trifonov, information appeared that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to extend Fan ID to Russian Cup matches. We’ll tell you how representatives of the RFU, the State Duma and football fans reacted to this information over the past 24 hours.
What do they think about this in the State Duma?
According to the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, Dmitry Svishchev, no one has come up with such an initiative. He also called this statement a chatterbox. RBC Sport reported this.
What did the RFU say?
The RFU also responded to the news about plans to introduce Fan ID for cup matches in Russia. According to the honorary president of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov, it is possible that a fan passport will need to be introduced at later stages of the Russian Football Cup. He noted that if this happens, there will be compelling reasons that he is not aware of. Here’s what he told Metaratings.ru:“Will the Ministry of Internal Affairs need to explain to the people on what grounds they took the initiative to introduce Fan ID into the Russian Cup? The law on fan passports was adopted, the Ministry of Internal Affairs simply does nothing, the law will have to be changed. This is not an easy procedure; you will need to contact the legislative authorities. It’s not just that Kolokoltsev took and signed some kind of decision.” .
Fans’ opinion
Fans of the St. Petersburg Zenit in the Russian Cup match, which took place on July 25, with the Grozny Akhmat, started chants in the stands in the first half: “Fan ID is the killer of football,” Sport24 reports.
Already at the match in Moscow, Lokomotiv fans during the railway workers’ game in the Russian Cup against Ural began chanting: “We don’t need Fan ID.” Sport24 writes about this.