«Exhibition invitation»: Khusainov — on the appointment of Mazhic in the ESC RFU

MOSCOW, September 9, Vasily Bogdanov.Former FIFA referee Sergey Khusainov, in a conversation with, called the invitation to the Expert Referee Commission (ESC) under the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Serbian Milorad Mazhic an exhibition and said that, in his opinion, the appointment would not solve the problem of training high-level referees. On Friday, the RFU announced that the former FIFA referee Mazhic joined the ESC RFU. Serb is 49 years old, he received the FIFA category in 2009 and worked at two world championships (2014, 2018), the Champions League final (2018), the UEFA Super Cup match (2016). The Serb ended his professional career in 2019. «For me, this is a new person. In my time, he was still a boy, so we did not intersect. I did not have the opportunity to follow his career, but I must have seen some matches. Usually, you pay attention to the referee «when he makes a puncture. For me, this exhibition appointment is like the invitation of Ravshan Irmatov. You can at least collect the entire commission from judges known in the recent past. But this will not solve the main problem of the judiciary — the training of high-level referees, who must be recognized as piece goods. They appear after many years of theoretical and mostly practical activity,» Khusainov said. «Mazhich and Irmatov are good guys who have reached a high level in the profession. But this does not mean that they will come and overnight change the entire corps beyond recognition. So I suppose that these appointments are needed in order to show the football community what kind of authoritative people they invite. considering all recent events. And in general, I am ambivalent about inviting foreign experts to the judiciary. We ourselves need to change the policy in this matter,» the source added.