Following the football clubs of North Ossetia and Dagestan, the football club of Kabardino-Balkaria, Spartak-Nalchik, today lost its funding. The CEO of the club, Victor Shekemov, stated that Spartak-Nalchik is bankrupt and all the players will be dismissed.The editor-in-chief of Vestnik Kavkaza, Alexei Vlasov, said that football officials had been aware of the problems of the team of Kabardino-Balkaria as well as its fans. Vlasov said that the bankruptcy of Spartak-Nalchik is part of a larger crisis of football in the Caucasus. "On January 12 the fate of another flagship of the North Caucasus football, Alanya, will be decided. Anzhi is almost out, it had zero victories in major games, its budget has been cut, all the football stars left. Terek is generating one scandal after another," Vlasov said.In Vlasov's opinion, there is nothing surprising in this tendency. In regions with bad economic situations there are no political benefits in hiring football stars who cannot play reliably well. He added that if Moscow had not helped the clubs in their financial troubles, it means it had decided that politically they have no future.Following the football clubs of North Ossetia and Dagestan, the football club of Kabardino-Balkaria, Spartak-Nalchik, today lost its funding. The CEO of the club, Victor Shekemov, stated that Spartak-Nalchik is bankrupt and all the players will be dismissed.
The editor-in-chief of Vestnik Kavkaza, Alexei Vlasov, said that football officials had been aware of the problems of the team of Kabardino-Balkaria as well as its fans.
Vlasov said that the bankruptcy of Spartak-Nalchik is part of a larger crisis of football in the Caucasus. "On January 12 the fate of another flagship of the North Caucasus football, Alanya, will be decided. Anzhi is almost out, it had zero victories in major games, its budget has been cut, all the football stars left. Terek is generating one scandal after another," Vlasov said.
In Vlasov's opinion, there is nothing surprising in this tendency. In regions with bad economic situations there are no political benefits in hiring football stars who cannot play reliably well. He added that if Moscow had not helped the clubs in their financial troubles, it means it had decided that politically they have no future.
