The President of the Russian Football Union, Alexander Dyukov, believes that players who have passed through the Youth Football League quickly get into the teams of the Russian Premier League.
The final meeting of the RFU executive committee in 2025 was held on Friday in Moscow.
— This year, the main stars of the Premier League were young football players who went through the UFL system. How do you assess the results of the YFL work and the development of the project this year?
— The Youth Football League is an excellent project, the decision to launch which we made back in 2019. If we take the 2025 season, more than 7 thousand players from 238 teams representing 90 leading football schools in Russia received playing experience in both the federal and interregional Southern Football Leagues.
When we made the decision to create the UFL, the main goal was to provide regular competitive practice to young football players. It is important for the development of athletes. They need to not only train, but also play – preferably with an opponent of comparable strength. If you play against an opponent who is noticeably inferior or superior in strength, such a game will give nothing to either the winner or the loser.
The creation of both the federal UFL in the existing format and interregional leagues allows 90 football schools and their teams to receive competitive gaming practice and develop faster. As a result, we see that players who have gone through this school quickly get into the main squads of teams, including the RPL, and become players in the starting lineup.
YFL is a very important project. I regularly communicate with coaches – both children’s and those working with professional teams. During this time, I have not heard a single word of criticism or regret about the creation of this tournament. A consolidated opinion has formed in the football community that the tournament is necessary and it is important not only to preserve it, but also to continue its development,” the Match TV correspondent reports Dyukov’s words.
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Former coach of the Ukrainian national team Jozsef Szabo Meta.ua has exclusively chosen the version of the three best Ukrainian football players of this season for its website.
“In the first row, Ilya Zabarny is almost out of the competition,” Sabo said. – As far as I remember, there has been no regression in the game yet. Yes, the defender had unimpressive tackles, but these were isolated cases. But he’s only 23 years old. The contract with Paris Saint-Germain shows that this football player is currently one of the best in Europe. And do not forget that at that age he played 55 matches for the Ukrainian national team.
I will give second place to Ruslan Malinovsky, who seems to have found a second youth after being injured. This guy’s head is clear, making great passes is not difficult for a midfielder. Largely thanks to Malinovsky’s effective play, the Ukrainian national team managed to qualify for the play-offs in the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament.
The third will be Everton’s left back Vitaly Mikolenko. He is a consistent starter for his team. And no matter what position the team is in, the English league is still the strongest league in Europe. He is an irreplaceable football player in the national team.
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Forward from Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba he wants to play as a goalkeeper for the rest of his career.
“I would be interested in trying to play in goal at least once. I would like to do it in the match,” Dzyuba said.
Dzyuba is the best scorer in the history of Russian football.
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Leonid Slutsky last year he performed well as coach of the Shanghai Shenhua football team. This opinion was expressed by the striker of Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba.
Last season, Slutsky took second place in the Chinese league with Shanghai Shenhua and led the club to the Asian Champions League playoffs for the first time. The team also won the Chinese Super Cup.
“He’s doing well in China, the only thing he was missing was a championship, everything was leading to that,” Dziuba said. “But it’s tough for a team that’s been in fifth place all their life, they don’t have that winning mentality.”
Slutsky is 54 years old and has been at the helm of the Chinese club since December 2023. In his career he has coached Rubin Kazan, Uralan Elista, Mosca, Krylya Sovetov Samara, CSKAEnglish “Hull” and Dutch “Vitesse”. Together with CSKA the specialist became champion of Russia three times, won the Russian Cup and the Super Cup twice.
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