SYKTYVKAR, April 1, Sergey Fuchs. Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said, that the International Football Federation (FIFA) understands the importance of Russian football, since it recognized the Russian language as the official language in the organization. On Thursday, at a meeting of the FIFA Congress, a decision was made to approve the Russian language as the official language in the organization. «I wonder, frankly, why is it so late for Russian the language became the official language of FIFA.I think, as soon as Russia received the right to host the World Cup, there was already a need to include it.But better late than never.The signal is good, positive.It means that FIFA understands the importance of Russian football, I would say so I hope that this will be confirmed not only by the recognition of the Russian language as the official language, but also by further actions, the removal of all restrictions for our clubs and national teams,” said Matytsin. FIFA's decision to the RFU and Alexander Dyukov is respectful. Russia did its best to host the World Cup (2018), it was recognized as the best in history. In addition, we hosted matches of the Confederations Cup and the 2020 European Championship. It is a sin not to use such wealth as the infrastructure in Russia,» Matytsin added. According to FIFA's statutes, its official languages are also English, Spanish, French and German.
