Krasnodar-Dinamo postponed by three positives for COVID-19

The Russian league match that was to face Krasnodar and Dinamo Moscow today has been postponed to July 19 due to three cases of coronavirus at the Moscow club., reported this Sunday the Russian Football Union (UFR).

The decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the Office of the Executive Committee of the UFR, as indicated in a statement published on its website.

Three players from Dinamo Moscow, Cameroonian Clinton N'Jie, Burkinabe Charles Kabore and Pole Sebastian Szymanski have contracted COVID-19 and are in quarantine.

Dynamo were to move to Krasnodar, but at the request of the Russian First Division League (RPL) the UFR finally made the decision to postpone the match for almost a month.

The UFR takes this step after the controversy that arose last Friday, when Rostov had to face Sochi with youths between 16 and 19 years old because the entire first team was quarantined for six positives for coronavirus.

Sochi, who had had a few weeks to train after lifting the restrictions on group practices, He refused to postpone the game until July 19.

The Rostov youth, by contrast, had not been able to train during the three months in which the league was suspended, so the position of Sochi was not only criticized for that, but also for putting health and condition at risk. physics of his rival.

The sports press and Russian and foreign commentators commented on what they consider a shame, which also damages the image of Russia and the Russian league.

Of course, the youth of Rostov became heroes despite losing 10-1 to Sochi.

To everyone's surprise, 47 seconds into the game, Román Románov, from Rostov and only 17 years old, scored a goal.

It was the first and last goal of the day for his club, but the player became the youngest person to score in Rostov's history and the three youngest in Russian league history to do so.

In addition, in the 27th minute Rostov goalkeeper Denis Popov, also 17, stopped a penalty by Antón Zabolotni, in what was only the beginning of his feat, given that in total he stopped 15 shots on his goal, a new record in the russian league ..

The 10-1 loss is the biggest in the history of the Russian championship since 2000, but Popov was recognized as the best player of the match, after “robbing everyone of the show,” Rostov said.