Akron Chief Executive Officer Alexei Vlasov announced the club’s intention to hold a match of the second stage of the Way of Regions of the Cup of Russia with Spartak Moscow at the Zhigulevsk stadium.
The draw for the next stage of the tournament has already taken place.
Super, just like you wanted! Yes, Spartak will go to Zhigulevsk. We don’t change anything away, only for the superfinal we will change the home stadium.
Is there any concern that the police will step in and ask for the match to be rescheduled for security reasons? We have already discussed this issue. There were a lot of fans at the match against Lokomotiv. It is clear that Spartak can raise much more, but so far there have been no concerns from the police.
We want to play Zhigulevsk. I think this is also a holiday for the local police. Although, perhaps, from the point of view of organizational issues, it is difficult.
Of course, Spartak is not a foreign club, many in the club and the team wanted Spartak. They must have been partly listened to. We corresponded with colleagues and friends, joked after the game that there would be a meeting. There was premonition on both sides.
The mood is to go ahead and win. We have a difficult path, many games have to be played to be in the main game.
We will raise the ticket prices, but they won’t be very pungent. As for the speculators, we understood the excitement in the last game, we have done several stages, now we are thinking about implementing it in the form of a loyalty program. The priority will be those who are with us in the snow, rain and heat. We award 10% to visitors, but we want our fans to fill up the stands as much as possible.
