Zenit midfielder Zelimkhan Bakaev admitted that his first goal for the club was marked by another “tunnel” in the team, which was probably the most difficult for the player.
The midfielder, who transferred from Spartak in the summer, scored the first goal for the team against Lokomotiv in the third round of the WORLD RPL (5: 0).
– You scored the first goal in official matches for Zenit. Did you get it after that? Was there another “tunnel”?
– I’m probably the champion in the “tunnels”. Enough, yes. And, I think, this was the hardest “tunnel” – they hit hard!
– Having already adapted in St. Petersburg, can you say how it differs from Moscow?
– It differs, but I feel very calm in St. Petersburg and calmly do my job. I will continue in the same spirit,” Bakaev told Match TV.
Zenit is in first place with 7 points in the WORLD RPL table. As part of the 4th round, the Blue-White-Blues will play in Grozny on Saturday with the local Akhmat. The meeting starts at 20:00 (Moscow time).
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino He commented on World Cup ticket prices, saying they reflected “absolutely insane” demand for next summer’s tournament:
“We have six to seven million tickets and in 15 days we received 150 million ticket requests. So every day we have 10 million requests. This shows how strong the World Cup is.”
FIFA has sold just 44 million tickets in almost 100 years of the World Cup. So we were able to sell tickets for the 300th anniversary of the World Cup in two weeks. Just imagine. “This is absolutely crazy.”
Infantino also noted that funds from ticket sales would be reinvested into world football, but did not specify a specific amount:
“The important thing is that the revenue from this goes back into football around the world. If it weren’t for FIFA, there would be no football in 150 countries of the world. Football exists thanks to the revenues we get from the World Cup, and we reinvest that into football around the world.”
Previously, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on FIFA to further reduce 2026 World Cup ticket prices.
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The Ukrainian Football Federation has determined the top scorer of the national team in 2025.
This status was given to Polesie’s winger Alexey Gutsulyak, who scored 5 goals and made 3 assists.
Gutsulyak’s assistance became important in the decisive matches of the autumn, when the player scored a goal and made an assist in the match against Azerbaijan, and also scored and assisted in the match against Iceland.
This helped the Ukraine national team reach the 2026 World Cup qualifying play-offs against Sweden in March.
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Fly CSKA extended the contract with the midfielder Ivan Oblyakov. This was reported by the army press service.
The new agreement will last until the end of the 2029/30 season.
Oblyakov is 27 years old, plays for CSKA since 2018. The footballer played 281 matches with the team in various tournaments, scoring 35 goals and 45 assists. As part of the army team, the midfielder won the Russian Cup twice (2023, 2025) and won the national Super Cup (2025).
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