The news of who will lead the country's main national football team has been perhaps the most anticipated in the Russian sports world in the past few weeks. Finally, the whole country learned the name of the person who will have to prepare Russian footballers for the UEFA EURO 2016.
On July 14, 2015, the Russian Football Union (RFU) officially confirmed the resignation of Fabio Capello as head coach of the national football team. The reason for this was the depressing results shown by the Russian national team both at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and in the current qualifying tournament for EURO 2016.
The last few weeks, the RFU has been silent about the specific appointment of the head coach, Vitaly Mutko named only a few candidates for such an important position for the football national team. Finally, on Friday 7th August 2015, Vitaly Mutko announced such a long-awaited name. As expected by many sports experts and journalists, Leonid Slutsky took over as head coach of the Russian national football team. This information has already been published on the official website of the RFU.
The contract with Leonid Slutsky was signed for a relatively short time - until the end of the qualifying matches for UEFA EURO 2016. At the same time, many were interested in the question: will Slutsky remain the head coach of CSKA Moscow. Vitaly Mutko replied in the affirmative, without depriving the fans of the “army team” of the head coach before the important CSKA qualifiers in the playoff round before the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2015-2016.
Leonid Slutsky is an honored coach of Russia, has extensive experience in various football clubs in our country. Slutsky was twice recognized as the best coach of the Russian Football Premier League (when he was a CSKA coach in 2013 and 2014).
The Russian national football team has four matches left in the qualifying tournament for UEFA EURO 2016. At the moment, the Russian national team is in third place in its qualifying group, significantly inferior to the team of Austria (by 8) and Sweden (by 4) in terms of points scored. Very soon - on September 5, the Russian national team will have a home match with the Swedish team, and on the 8th of the same month Liechtenstein will be the rivals of the national team. After that, the wards of Leonid Slutsky will remain to play matches with the national teams of Montenegro and Moldova.
