“If you don’t give back the money, he will come to you tomorrow.” The ex-player of “Zenith” spoke about the threats from the Cypriot mafia

Former Zenit striker Alexei Gasilin said he received threats after an unsuccessful game during the Cypriot part of his career in 2021.

– After the second league, I had offers from the FNL, but during the time at Zvezda I gained excess weight, so I decided to go to Ermis to get high on my career. I was given a contract for two years and with good, by the standards of Cyprus, money. Lifting – a dozen euros. The club rented luxurious apartments for me: a swimming pool, a bar counter, sunbeds, three minutes from the sea. Also got the car out! The club is owned and then owned by the local don Corleone, a mafia. Criminal schemes in the city passed through it. All the attributes of a criminal boss were with him – a huge house, a Rolls Royce and security guards.

We had a three-month training camp before the start of the championship. A week before the start of the season, we lose in a friendly game to our principal opponent. In a friendly! The owner here is already firing the head coach, the athletic director and disbanding the twelve players they brought in during the offseason. A sports director came to me: “We urgently need to give back the 10,000 lifting tickets that you were paid. You don’t understand what kind of person this is! If you don’t give it back, he will come to you tomorrow!” I went to the sea, swam, took tickets for the next flight to Russia and flew away (laughs), Sport24 quotes Gasilin.