Arbitration and Inspection Department of the Russian Football Federation (RFU) demonstrated that the referee Egor Egorov did not affect the results of matches involving Moscow Torpedo. The head of RFU Alexander Diukov.

“The investigation is ongoing and until it is completed we cannot make any comments. I am not familiar with Egorov’s statements. Our refereeing and inspection department analyzed the Torpedo matches refereed by Egorov. In these matches, our experts did not find any incorrect decisions of the referee that could have influenced the result,” Dyukov said.

Previously, the referee’s father, Igor Egorov, in an interview with Sport Express, denied that his son was in custody due to suspicion of involvement in the Torpedo case. Subsequently, in a conversation with the RB Sport portal, Igor Egorov said that his son was involved in a related criminal case.

On July 10, Torpedo was expelled from the Russian World Premier League for the 2025/26 season and fined 5 million rubles. Former chairman of the board of directors Leonid Sobolev and former general director Valery Skorodumov were suspended from all football-related activities for attempting to organize match-fixing for 5 and 10 years respectively. On July 11, the office of the executive committee of the Russian Football Federation decided that Torpedo would compete in the second strongest division of the national championship.

Russian Football Federation (RFU) is interested in making use of the experience of foreign trainers by national specialists. The president told reporters RFU Alexander Diukov.

“If we talk about approaches to the work of coaches, including foreign ones, we see advantages in attracting strong foreign specialists to work in clubs and academies. At the same time, we are interested in having domestic specialists work alongside them, adopt their experience and develop professionally,” Dyukov said.

“If at some point we see that this model does not work, that only foreign coaches work with Russian players, and Russian ones do not, then, of course, we will have to make decisions on regulation,” the boss added. RFU.

Former assistant coach of the French national football team Jean-Louis Gasset he died at the age of 73. This was reported by the press service of Marseille, whose coach the specialist worked in 2024.

The cause of death was not specified.

Gasse led Marseille to the semi-finals of the Europa League, in which the team lost on aggregate to Italy’s Atalanta. The specialist worked for the French national team from 2010 to 2012 as assistant to coach Laurent Blanc. During his career, Gasse was also the manager of French clubs Montpellier, Caen, Istras, Saint-Etienne and Bordeaux.

From 2022 to 2024, Gasse led the Ivory Coast national team. He was sacked during the 2024 home Africa Cup of Nations after the group stage. The Ivorians entered the playoffs from 3rd place in the quartet and won the tournament under current coach Emer Fae.