MOSCOW, Jan 26 Former midfielder of the Russian national football team Alexander Mostovoy spoke about financing of e-sports.» Before, football was in the first place. And now it is in third or fourth place. First, personal interests, a contract, and then football. And money … now they have come not only to football! First of all, we are talking about CS and Dota 2. I read about the amounts that are spinning in these “sports” in Russia, they are quite comparable to football… Hundreds of millions! Komsomolets». The football player also said that other sports disciplines are suffering due to the growing popularity of e-sports and accused Russian football players of being too fond of computer games. «Who in our world gets better from the fact that children sit at computers from morning to evening and press buttons And then sit all day long yat in social networks and discuss it. And the sports fields are empty at this time. Why support it? To get fools and dystrophics who don't know how to talk to people normally? I'm not talking about women … As an obvious result — look at the level of our players, the RPL is based on foreigners. Everyone plays DotA, aspires to become cybersportsmen…» Mostovoy added.
