The Minister of sports Vitaly Mutko was elected President of the Russian football Union (RFU). On Saturday, September 24, RIA Novosti reported.
He got 65,2% of the votes of the participants of the conference of the RFU in Moscow, former national team coach Valery Gazzaev voted 34.8 per cent of the delegates.
The functionary head of a sports Federation in 2015, in addition, he led the RAF from 2005 to 2009.
Initially, in the presidential elections, there were four party — Mutko, Gazzaev, President of Russian football Premier League (RFPL) Sergey Pryadkin and the President of the Football national League (FNL Igor Efremov. Pryadkin and Efremov withdrew their candidacies in favor of Mutko.
