KAZAN, August 12, Vadim Kuznetsov. Joined the coaching staff of the Russian national Football Yuri Nikiforov said that he could not refuse an unexpected but interesting offer to work in the national team. On Friday, the official website of the Russian Football Union (RFU) announced that the 51-year-old specialist had joined Valery Karpin's team as an assistant coach. Earlier, Karpin’s assistant Nikolai Pisarev received permission from the RFU to combine work in the national team and Khimki near Moscow, which he headed. “I am already in Moscow, I will work in Russia. My family reacted positively to this. This is the Russian team. the invitation came as a surprise to me, but I'm very interested. This is the national team, this is the highest level. They don't refuse such offers,» Nikiforov said. «Now the team has no official matches, but we don't know what will happen in a month. Maybe , everything will end, and maybe it will drag on for a couple of years,» the agency's interlocutor added.
