Russian football federation votes out its president over financial dispute

By: The Associated Press Posted: 8:31 AM CDT Sunday, May. 31, 2015 Last Modified: 8:36 AM CDT Sunday, May. 31, 2015

MOSCOW - The Russian Football Union has voted out president Nikolai Tolstykh in the culmination of long-running tensions over how the game is run in the 2018 World Cup host nation.

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MOSCOW - The Russian Football Union has voted out president Nikolai Tolstykh in the culmination of long-running tensions over how the game is run in the 2018 World Cup host nation.

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MOSCOW – The Russian Football Union has voted out president Nikolai Tolstykh in the culmination of long-running tensions over how the game is run in the 2018 World Cup host nation.

Tolstykh’s three years in charge of Russian football were marked by a crackdown on fan racism which saw some of the country’s biggest clubs punished, but his time in office was also blighted by financial problems.

Tolstykh came under particular fire for his role in signing national team coach Fabio Capello to a new contract worth a reported 7 million euros a year in January 2014, and his removal as president calls into question the Italian coach’s future in Russia.

The RFU’s long-running financial difficulties led to Capello going unpaid for seven months until February.