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VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info correspondent Alexey Matveyev continues
a conversation with the famous football referee Sergey Khusainov about the uninterrupted chain of criminal events in big Russian football.
- Are you even a normal person? The mafiosi made it clear to you in plain text and by their
actions: either leave or we'll finish you off. But you stubbornly
bent on your line, continued to referee matches, and were not going to resign. So I have a question: are you "in your right mind", uncle, or is there something wrong with your head?
- By the way, I, and not only I, have an example of you before my eyes. He could have disappeared too, not reported to readers the "horror stories" from the world of
football, and prepared quite neutral reports from the matches. But you keep
"digging and digging". Are you crazy, or what? After all, you really were almost
killed...
- Well, sports journalism and the direct work in football of those same referees are still different professions. Here you should not compare. Although
the risk, yes, is quite comparable. If you are a normal, honest person.
Became a "persona non grata"
- I kept wanting to ask: you, however, ended your career as a football referee too early. You could have worked in your beloved
football for at least a couple more seasons. Why did you "run away"? Were you scared? Not in
the sense of condemnation, I would simply like to know and understand the reasons for
the "voluntary" resignation...
- Why, why... One of the officials of the football union called the
Moscow college of referees. Then, and even now, this is a common
phenomenon, "telephone law" has not been cancelled. The caller did not simply
request, but insisted not to include Khusainov in the list of referees for the season.
That's all.
- Did they give any reason, why, for what? After all, they were "removing" one of the best referees
from the profession.
- It's clear anyway. They were taking revenge for an independent position. I
later tried to make my colleagues independent from the influence of businessmen, of whom there are apparently countless in
big Russian football.
So, after finishing my career, as the head of the All-Russian Collegium
of Referees (VKS), I introduced a computer draw for appointing referees for championship
matches. Is that bad? Well, literally all the
"shadow players" who had long been accustomed to football-related relations turned against me!
- What exactly did you propose that was so revolutionary?
- Well, what do you mean, what? Thus, we, the judges, and I, as the leader, rejected the attempts of all sorts of "bugs" who were, and still are, behind many teams to "twist" us as they pleased. They really, really did not like our innovations. First of all, all sorts of crooks from big football.
- Can you be more specific? What, in your opinion, was the innovation in the work of football referees?
- For example, - and this is one of the main conditions, - we managed to find sponsors
for the salaries of my colleagues, football referees. We no longer depended on the whims of the football union. For example, the referees received their salaries at their place of work, in our college, and ceased to depend on the whims of
various "bugs" around football, all sorts of bigwigs in big football.
But soon my opponents managed to return the situation to normal, to the near-sports channel. And referees, my colleagues, began to be paid
money in the accounting department of the team hosting this or that opponent. There is nothing like this anywhere in the world! You could say that they have ruined domestic football at the root. All our innovations to clean up football have gone "down the drain".
- From the outside, to a simple fan, it is not clear where the frankly weak referees come from? Are they raised in special "nurseries", or what? And what kind of "nurseries" are these, in your opinion?
- But I have already partly told you. I will explain a little, if someone is still unclear. According to my many years of observation, a novice referee brings a bribe to the regional authorities, they send part of the money to the center. Already at the meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU), the interests of the new referee are lobbied. Then my young colleague butters up his superiors, who promoted him on a "very thorny" path...
- Excuse me, but do you think you never paid anyone anything, never "buttered up" anyone with money to work as a referee at football matches?
- It would be better to ask my colleagues, who worked with me in one way or another. In any case, there is no information in nature about me "merging" teams, "killing" anyone with unfair, biased refereeing. To put it mildly, I was terribly disliked by all sorts of people around football, who, for example, organized the attack with bats that I remember. I didn't owe anyone anything: neither Spartak nor CSKA, nor Lokomotiv nor Dynamo...
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