MOSCOW, June 22 Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Pole Zbigniew Boniek said that the decision not to call Spartak Moscow defender Maciej Rybus to the Polish national team is populist. On Monday, the Polish Football Union announced that Rybus would not be called up to the national team after moving to Spartak Moscow. It was noted that the player will miss the World Cup in Qatar. «There is too much populism in all this. It was easy to make such a decision, because Rybus is inferior to Bereshinskiy, Pukhach or Zalevsky in the rating of left backs, he always has some kind of injury in the club. You can analyze the situation in different ways and come to different conclusions, but now it looks like whoever screams louder is right,» Polsatu Sport quotes Bonek. On June 11, Rybus signed a contract with the Red-Whites until the summer of 2024. The Pole began playing in the Russian Premier League (RPL) in 2012, when he moved from Legia Warsaw to Akhmat Grozny (then Terek). In 2016, he left Akhmat and became a player in the French Lyon, but returned to Russia a year later, signing a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow. The defender has played 66 matches for the Polish national team. The football player is 32 years old, in 2018 he married a Russian woman.
