MOSCOW, Sep 2, Andrey Mikhailov. In replacing the portrait of the former CSKA football player Mario Fernandez at the club's stadium should not look for a double meaning, Kirill Breido, director of communications for the army team, told reporters.
Earlier, CSKA removed the portrait of Fernandez from the under-tribune room at the home stadium. On Sunday, the team will play at home with Zenit in the seventh round of the Russian championship.
“I, like you, saw this for the first time today. But you definitely shouldn’t look for double meanings behind this, because if this was the message of the club, then it would probably be reflected in the graffiti under discussion. This corridor is just one from the premises of the stadium, which is not yet visible to the fans. Changes of this kind are constant, some photographs are changing throughout the stadium, at the base, because the composition and status of the players are changing, various shootings are being carried out,» Breido said.
“Now the stadium workers have updated several walls, including this one. I repeat, if there was a message in this, it would have been done differently,” Breido answered the question of whether this was done on purpose before the match with Zenit. “Only journalists see this corridor on way from the press bar to the mix. With all due respect to you, fellow journalists, this image was not changed for you. Although we understand and see the popularity of such changes.»
In mid-July, CSKA fans launched a petition demanding the removal of graffiti depicting Fernandez from the army stadium.
«»As for painting over the graffiti of Mario Fernandez, as we said before, it will be up to the fans to decide. Many people say that the fans have decided, look at the petition. We see that many fans are in favor of painting over, we see a large number of signatures, we appreciate every comment on this topic, but if we proceed from the emotional impulse that the fans and all of us at the club had, to make a survey, then, of course, the answer will be unequivocal, but we want to make a balanced decision, correct, thoughtful. they constantly meet with the club’s management, since then there have been no meetings, for sure this issue will be raised, some decision will be made. But today this is not what we want to put on the agenda on the eve of the match from the side of the club, «concluded Breido.< br>