“Russia torn away the American power to seize the fields. The player trains later on a quarter of the field, and we wonder why he can’t find a chance, ”says the Director of the RFU Mitrofanov – Football
The RFU called the colossal problem of youth football in Russia.
“The colossal problem of youth football is infrastructure. There are only two academies in Russia that have a decent infrastructure – these are the football academies of Krasnodar and Zenit.
The rest of the schools in the country, even such eminent ones as Spartak, Dynamo and Lokomotiv, are simply not equipped with football fields. We cannot talk about other schools where there is one full-sized field in terms of training football players.
The football player then trains in the quarter of the field, and we wonder why he cannot find his mistake. We are simply behind the European football powers in terms of the number of football grounds per capita.
In England, one field per 1 thousand people, in Italy – for 2-2.5 people. There are 11,000 football pitches in Russia, not pitches, according to this standard, one pitch per 5,000 Russians, but we use all the pitches, and they are only full-size pitches.
Of course, there is no need to create conditions for 2,255 schools, but the substitutes for 100 schools, on the basis of which the interests of RFU centers and children’s football schools are pursued, must definitely be constantly provided with excellent infrastructure,” said Maxim Mitrofanov, General Director for Development of the RFU.