Near-football "feeder" of Kamancha. The main fan was detained by riot police at the RFU elections Head of the All-Russian Association of WOB Fans Alexander Shprygin

ALEXANDER SHPRYGIN. On his business card below his last name there is the impressive word “president”, in his email address instead of his name there is the nickname boss, on the windshield of the car there is a State Duma pass for travel where others are not allowed. A big man, in a word. Leader of the VOB - All-Russian Fans' Association, member of the executive committee of the RFU - Russian Football Union. This is the place to be on the VIP podium - for especially important guests...

PERSONAL

LEATHER LOCKS

– Is life good, Alexander? Watch football from the executive box - blankets, free drinks, snacks... Not like in the fan sectors under the supervision of evil cops.

– By the way, I’m going to write an extensive article on this topic in LiveJournal, the Internet LiveJournal. I haven’t really understood the behind-the-scenes environment for the elite yet, but it’s interesting to watch what’s happening. Now, according to my status, I am entitled to free tickets and invitations to all matches, it would be stupid not to take advantage. Although I got into VIP for the first time four years ago at the Lokomotiv stadium.

- Exotic?

“I was struck by a fashionably dressed lady who, during a match, chirped loudly to someone on the phone: “Darling, I’m at the football game. It's so weird and cool here! Boys in colorful T-shirts are running around, everyone is shouting and waving flags.” Then I learned that there are different lodges, there is a kind of division. The coolest ones, of course, are government ones. And the so-called red VIP is considered ordinary. This includes a seat in the stands and a buffet after the game.

Of course, watching football with a blanket and hot food is more comfortable and enjoyable than freezing outside the goal. People with money are used to living comfortably, so they want to have all the amenities at the stadium. For example, there was none of this at Dynamo in Petrovsky Park. Zero service! And in Khimki, where the team is moving during the reconstruction of the old arena, it will appear. Rich fans will be able to buy an annual subscription for one hundred thousand rubles and enjoy the game from the business box and have fun.

– How much will a ticket to the match cost?

- Five thousand rubles. For a serious person - pennies. It's like going to a restaurant once. But everything will be familiar, familiar. You can even watch a rerun on TV while you have a drink and a snack. Of course, the atmosphere in VIP is unique, intimate and bohemian. It takes time to get comfortable. On March 7, I was at Luzhniki for the Russian Super Cup. The audience around was entirely respectable: club leaders, sponsors, coaches, honored people - Cherchesov, Simonyan, hockey Tikhonov... No one really shouted or jumped up and down. Everything is quiet, sedate, calm. I won’t say that I felt out of place, but it was uncomfortable. I’m used to going to football to relax, unwind, and show off. So you hit the nail on the head with your question; I am having a deep philosophical discussion on this topic within myself.

– Isn’t the caliper offended that they exchanged it for leather stocks?

- There is nothing like it even close. I am still accessible, everyone knows my mobile phone number, the Internet is full of sites through which you can communicate with me directly. Now we are opening an office in Tovarishchesky Lane on Taganka, anyone is free to come there. I get into the VIP box a couple of times a year, and I regularly attend games of the Russian Championship, in almost every round. So consider...

It’s easier for me behind the gate with the fans. On March 28, the national team will play against Azerbaijan, and I will go to the “B” stand with the guys. Even at the Super Cup between CSKA and Rubin, I looked at the field, followed the stands, and read the banners.

– Have you seen the “message” to the Minister of Defense?

– Fans expressed their attitude towards the idea of disbanding the army club. It turned out, maybe, a little rough, but it was specific.

– The question is not to cross the line of what is permissible. As happened with Zenit fans at last year’s match with Dynamo Moscow.

“The people of St. Petersburg acted extremely harshly with people who dared to insult the memory of the great Yashin. According to the club's decision, thugs will no longer appear at the stadium; they simply will not be sold tickets. Believe me, for those who cannot live without football, it is difficult to come up with a more severe punishment.

– How long have you been a fan, Alexander?

– I first went to football in 1989, for some reason at the match between Spartak and Yerevan Ararat, although I had been a Dynamo fan since I was five years old. At first I went with children’s tickets, but they weren’t allowed into the stadium without an adult, so I chose a more decent guy and asked: “Uncle, tell the controller that you are my dad.” I went to every game with a new “father”. At one time I kept a diary where I wrote down how many matches I attended during the season and what trips I went on. Becoming Russian football happened before my eyes. As is the development of the fan movement in the country. We were once considered rabble-rousers, but today they recognize that this is a powerful and well-organized movement.

RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS

– You can move in different directions. For example, along the path of extremism and nationalism.

“It’s not our choice, that’s for sure.” For some reason, fans continue to be stubbornly portrayed as a violent, always drunk and poorly controlled crowd, recalling fights between various factions, clashes with the police, plastic seats in the stands torn out with “meat” and especially the pogrom at Manezhnaya Square after the 2002 World Cup match between Russia and Japan. But then there was a drunken crowd, over which law enforcement officers lost control; this was not a planned action. Fan associations for last years have changed a lot. Today, fans have direct contact with clubs, and in a certain sense even influence their policies. For example, “Phratria” ensured that the leadership of “Spartak” took into account its demands, and moved from confrontation to close cooperation. Dynamo fans have strong ties with the team, the army team, Lokomotiv and Zenit fans...

– Is VOB officially registered?

- Certainly. As an all-Russian social movement, uniting 53 regional branches. There are seven people on the board, five of them represent the country's leading fan organizations. We are part of the RFU, we have the right to vote at conferences, and I am now also a member of the executive committee, I am the plenipotentiary representative of fans in the Russian Football Union.

– If I’m not mistaken, there are 31 people in the executive committee. What can a lone fan voice change in this harmonious chorus? Who will hear him?

– Today it is important for us to state our position, to indicate our presence. And this is already a lot. Not all at once! VOB is less than two years old. For now I’m keeping quiet, delving into it, listening, learning, but I’m sure, if necessary, I’ll be able to prove and defend the fans’ position. With the active participation of the VOB, the rules adopted back in 2002 regulating the behavior of spectators at sporting events. The procedure for carrying banners into the stands, agreeing on their content, and requirements for sound-amplifying equipment will be more clearly defined. The document is currently being approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs; if it is accepted, it will be our major achievement. Although, I will not hide, the struggle is tough, the police, of course, are trying to tighten the rules as much as possible, limit any actions, but we believe that everything should be balanced, without excesses.

– Fans themselves often give reasons not to be mean to themselves.

“But this is not yet a reason to introduce draconian measures against everyone. If you follow this logic, Russia has long needed prohibition. How else? There are so many alcoholics here! It’s easier than ever to impose bans, but it’s much more difficult to make sure that every match turns into a truly interesting spectacle. At the Super Cup, three quarters of the seats in Luzhniki were empty. In my opinion, this is terrible. Is it normal that fans didn’t come to watch two best teams last season? In England or Spain, people would be flocking to see such a game, but in our country, I’m sure many didn’t even know who was dating, with whom, when and where. People need to be attracted, find non-standard forms that can arouse interest. Let's say, what's scary about an organized fan performance? It's part of the show after all.

Take the same banners: they can be witty, bright, and expressive. And sometimes sad - depending on the situation. In any case, this is not a reason to ban them, which the police regularly try to do. At the match with Rubin, army fans were not allowed to carry a banner dedicated to the memory of their fallen comrade. They say it’s a holiday for people, there’s no need to spoil the mood. Who would the banner harm? This only causes irritation, a desire to do something out of spite. Moreover, in the cold season it is not difficult to drag any banner onto the podium by wrapping it around the body. Who knows! You can’t strip everyone down to their underpants.

Rather than waste energy on a “who will win” fight, it is better, I repeat, to try to come to an agreement by spelling out all the details in the law. In the end, you can attract not only lawyers, but also linguists. Let them give an expert assessment of the content of the banners.

“But when the stands start hooting like monkeys at the sight of black players, I’m afraid no amount of expertise will help.” This sounds like a diagnosis.

– I look at the situation differently. What you are talking about is the result of buying cheap foreign players, which undermines the level of Russian football as a whole. We need to raise our own students, and not bring here a bunch of random people. Agents, trying to line their pockets, sell third-rate goods, but you can’t fool a fan with chaff. People have learned to figure out what's what. I assure you, no one will holler at a strong player. Skin color does not matter in this situation.

FAT GREASY HANDS

- In a word, Alexander, everything is fine, don’t you see any problems with manifestations of racism in the stands?

– Of course, the culture of fan behavior needs to be improved. The VOB is also involved in this. We are currently developing a procedure for joining the organization. This is not about drying everything up and putting it on bureaucratic lines. We don’t want to trivially hand out membership cards and then walk around high offices, trumping the number of people covered. It won’t be difficult for us, as they say, to put half a million people in the country under arms, but that’s not the goal. We plan that those who are members of our organization will be able to receive some benefits; for example, a leading mobile operator has already offered a special tariff for VOB members. In addition, we are thinking of introducing modern interactive forms that will allow us to record and track information about each fan in a special database.

- Meaning? Is it easier to manage?

– Similar electronic cards have existed for a long time, for example, in England and Holland, and you can immediately see from them how regularly a fan attends matches. If, for example, there is an important game coming up, for which there are more applications than there are seats in the stadium, the most active ones will have an advantage. Vitaly Mutko liked our proposals; he said that he was ready to transfer to the VOB all issues related to the distribution of tickets for the national team’s matches, leaving for himself only those matters related to VIP guests. But we cannot yet take on such responsibility.

-What are you afraid of?

– The question is double-edged. It is necessary to create a transparent system that will exclude any fraud. There are plenty of people who like to speculate and make an extra penny. I will not hide that, as the president who has a significant quota for tickets, various businessmen periodically approach me with “interesting” offers.

- You, of course, are not corruptible?

“I’m smart enough to understand that attracting fans to our side will bring the organization much more dividends than momentary profit.” Ticket distribution companies think differently. They take advantage of the shortage and make the most of it. To break this bad practice, we want to introduce an electronic registration system. Then it won’t be difficult to track where and in what quantity the tickets went. These are obvious things, another question is that corruption has penetrated deeply into our football, affecting almost all structures. I don’t want to say anything bad about the RFU, but...

– You should try to criticize the organization of which you are a member of the executive committee!

– That’s not the point. The union itself does not sell tickets; it does not have a license. Previously, the RFU delegated rights to someone, but now, thank God, it has decided to create its own agency that will keep order. Today we can already predict that the match with Germany will cause a stir no less than the game with England a year and a half ago. VOB then passed the test with dignity, we had about 20 thousand tickets, they were distributed to organized fan clubs and were sold under strict control. In this sense, you won’t be spoiled at VOB.

– Do you know what they say in Ukraine? The one who holds lard always has greasy hands...

- Right. But I don’t forget for a minute that today you can earn a certain amount of money by chasing the jackpot, and tomorrow you can lose your good name and never get it back. I’m not ready to answer for others, but I will say about myself: there is no amount for which I would put my reputation on the line. Chairman board of trustees The VOB is Sergei Lipatov, president of the TTK company, which hosted the Russian Super Cup. It was he who helped us organize three free charters for the match with Germany. The trip was free for the fans, but in fact the pleasure cost almost four hundred thousand dollars, which Sergei Vladimirovich entrusted to the VOB. This attitude should be valued, and we understand this very well. Believe me, this is not Shura Balaganov from The Golden Calf, who is capable of stealing a wallet on a tram, forgetting about fifty thousand in his pocket. I’m fine – both mentally and financially.

– What do you earn from?

– My personal assets are well distributed. I am the founder of several companies, I am engaged in car service and cargo transportation, I have a share in a fashionable sports cafe, and I own land plots in the Pskov region.

- Did you buy the collective farm?

- Something like that. Broke, driven to bankruptcy by the previous careless owners.

- What is the name of? Something like “Testaments of Ilyich”?

– Agricultural cooperative “Pukhnovo”.

– What are you producing?

– We are currently looking for investors. The most valuable thing in Pukhnovo is land; it will always be profitable. I think that in Russia in a couple of years an agricultural boom will begin, people from cities will flock to the villages. But we seem to have digressed from the topic?

SPIDERS IN A JAR

- Why? The President of the VOB is a public figure, people should know how the leader of the fans lives. And there are still dark pages in your biography.

– Which ones, for example?

– In 2003, you were accused of robbery and attack on the leader of the Metal Corrosion group, Spider. How did it end?

– The prosecutor's office dropped all charges against me, admitting that they had gone too far. Today I am clean before the law and people. The story dragged on for five years, during which time the case was returned four times to clarify the charges, but in the end they could not incriminate me with anything. We couldn’t find anything to cling to.

-Have you made peace with Spider?

“A year ago we were supposed to meet and discuss everything in private, but, to be honest, I have no desire to see this person. When, because of a banal quarrel, one friend is ready to ruin the life of another, this, you see, is not normal. If I happen to meet Spider somewhere, I’ll shake his hand, no problem, but I’ll probably no longer be able to be friends and communicate as before.

– You spent a year in a pre-trial detention center?

- In “Matrosskaya Tishina”. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but I’ll just say: the pre-trial detention center is not a test for the weak. I instantly matured, became tougher, more decisive, learned to stand up for my rights and say the word “no.” Now it’s useless to try to bend me or break me - it won’t work. Of course, prison is a powerful school of life, but I don’t advise anyone to rush to sit at this desk. In the detention center, by the way, they say that they have never had such a unique prisoner before, since I still maintain relations with the management of the pre-trial detention center and go there from time to time.

- Are you bored?

“Matrosskaya Tishina is undergoing renovations, and I want to negotiate with the local authorities to remove the unique Dynamo panels that have been preserved from the thirties of the last century. They hang on the walls in the administrative building of the pre-trial detention center and are in no way inferior to those that decorate the lobby of the Dynamo metro station. It's a shame if such good things go to waste. Just imagine how many people looked at these panels, what kind of energy comes from them... For almost two years I convinced the head of “Matrosskaya Tishina” Fikret Tagiyev and, it seems, he persuaded him. We have a good relationship, sometimes I even help the pre-trial detention center staff with football tickets. Do you know that the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yuri Kalinin, recently signed an order awarding me the medal “For Strengthening the Penitentiary System”? We do a lot of work with convicts, regularly take teams of fans to colonies, play with prisoners...

– The fact that the president of the VOB was imprisoned certainly adds weight to you in the eyes of ordinary fans? Like an authoritative guy.

– I never trumped with such things. If it were up to me, I would erase this page from my life. There's nothing to be proud of. The famous chanson group “Vorovaiki” wrote a song that they dedicated to me, and shot a video based on it, where this whole story is played out in an artistic form. A presentation is due to take place soon, I hope it will be the final chord, I will put an end to it and will no longer think about the Spider or anything connected with him.

Cheap thieves romance has never attracted me. So that your fingers fan out and snot bubbles. Not my style. And the fan world is far from the criminal one, they are like two poles. Another thing is that sometimes they try to force us into different stories.

- That is?

– Let me remind you of the sensitive issue of tickets. When the VOB took away twenty thousand tickets to England, we ruined someone's business. If the tickets went to the box office, they would inevitably end up in the hands of speculators, who, according to the most conservative estimates, would make a million dollars. People from law enforcement. Having lost their money, they had a big grudge against us and began to settle scores. They went home to the leader of the Spartak "Phratria" Ivan Katanaev, known to many as a Battalion Combatant, and were drafted into the army, although Vanya was already 26 years old. I am not against defending the Motherland with a machine gun in my hands, but everything looked defiantly provocative, as if it were a measure of punishment, and not the fulfillment of a sacred duty.

-Did you interfere?

- Of course. Vanya served in the garrison for six months, and then we achieved his transfer to internal troops, and now he is engaged in performance at national team matches. By the way, the police tried to put pressure on Maxim Korotin from the army fan club after England, they put pressure on him in every possible way. And they didn’t give him any offense, they beat him back.

FACE WITH A SCAR

- Well, I see you have a scar on your nose...

“I’ve been boxing for three years.

– Do you want to say that you were injured in the ring?

- No, my nose was broken in a street fight, but that was a long time ago. In his youth, he sometimes got excited and got into trouble unnecessarily. Now I try to avoid conflict situations, although it doesn’t always work out. IN last time The fight happened in 2006 in Kyiv, when our Dynamo played there with a local one.

- Who will win?

– On the football field, the Ukrainians turned out to be stronger, and off it, we were stronger.

– It seems that later you and the Caucasians waved in Petrovsky Park.

– This is already without my participation. Our guys didn’t share something with amateur team“Vainakh”, I came to resolve the situation. We parted ways.

– Why did they threaten Igor Rabiner?

– Again you attribute the merits of others. My close friend and namesake turned to Rabiner when he drove into Dynamo for something unrelated, and offered to talk like a man. The letter was supported by many fans, but the journalist went to America instead of answering... Then the meeting did take place, and the conflict was settled. As with Vasya Utkin, who initially had a misunderstanding with Vanya-Kombat. In the end, we also got along.

- Why, by the way, are you Kamancha? Were there Indians in your family?

Remember the old Soviet film “The Leader of the Redskins” based on the stories of O’Henry? In 1993, we went on an away trip with Dynamo, and one of the guys called me Kamancha. Apparently, I was somewhat like the eccentric and restless boy from the movies. So the nickname stuck...

– Is it true that you are an assistant to State Duma deputy Abeltsev? The one who sometimes backs up his verbal arguments with his fists?

– This is the fourth convocation in a row. Sergei Nikolaevich is a serious man... I have been a member of the LDPR since 1998, and am listed as Vladimir Volfovich’s adviser on sports. He and I even have the same football preferences. Zhirinovsky has been a Dynamo fan since childhood; his entire office in the Duma is painted blue and white. But his son Igor Lebedev is an ardent Lokomotiv fan. And, by the way, largely thanks to the VIP boxes at the stadium in Cherkizovo. The first time Igor got there by accident, but then he became addicted and began going regularly. I was so carried away by the game that last season I sent a deputy request to the head coach why he did not release a player as a starter.

On the morning of June 14, French security services detained a bus with a group of Russian citizens belonging to the organization “All-Russian Social Movement All-Russian Association of Fans - Russia Forward” or abbreviated as “VOB”. Previously, the largest international sporting event attracted the attention of the press and public not so much sporting achievements, as much as reports from police chronicles, in some places reminiscent of reports from the theater of military operations. The main “heroes” of the news were Russians football fans. Today the leader of these “fans” is a certain Alexander Shprygin with the speed of a machine gun scribbling from the police station desperate posts on Twitter, indignant at the actions of the French security forces, who “out of lawlessness” detained peaceful Russian ball game lovers.

However, before you begin to sympathize with the victim of tyranny, it is worth getting acquainted with what the “All-Russian public movement All-Russian Association of Fans - Russia Forward” is and who its permanent leader is.

Society learned about aggressive “near-football” in the first half of the 90s. Copying the behavior of their English “colleagues,” Russian fans united into “firms” and fought, and for many, football was more of a reason for a fight than a sporting hobby. All-Russian fame for “near-football” came after “Manezhka” - a mass pogrom that occurred in 2002 on Manezh Square during the broadcast of the Russia-Japan match. Then 47 people were injured, one died in the hospital. It’s worth noting here that Manezhka became the convenient occasion thanks to which the Russian State Duma was able to toughen punishment for extremism. Around the same period, publications began to appear in the press about successful and mutually beneficial cooperation between the authorities and fan “firms.” According to the opinion, the current Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin’s former colleague at the St. Petersburg mayor’s office, Vitaly Mutko, played a key role in this.

“Gladiators “Roma Prickly and Vasya Killer”

The cooperation consisted of the following: the authorities used fans as militants who could be set against representatives of the opposition. In turn, the “fans” received funding and protection, as well as a lenient attitude towards criminal activity on a fan basis (which, according to various sources, included racketeering, raider takeovers and protection of the drug business). Therefore, by the end of the first half of the 2000s, the Nashi movement, patronized by Vladislav Surkov, had its own controlled, well-prepared and “sharpened” under street fighting fan "firms" - "Gallant Steeds" and "Gladiators". However, their activity faded over time. A different fate awaited another structure created around the same years called VOB (All-Russian Association of Fans). It turned out to be the most successful of all the others due to the fact that it was initiated directly by the then head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vitaly Mutko. It is characteristic that from the very beginning the VOB was called “Mutko’s personal army.”

However, everything is in order:

Also typical is the case of an attack on activists near the Tagansky District Court, which was attended by representatives of another pro-Kremlin movement, “Local,” which also used fan “firms” for violent actions against the opposition. Roman Popkov, a participant in these events, writes:

We fought back and handed all these comrades over to the police. An obvious act of aggression, we are the victims, the defending party, everything was recorded by surveillance cameras near the court. They come out in a few hours, and a month later we are all arrested. Head of the Lyubertsy cell of the “Locals” Leonid Simunin– a participant in a violent provocation against the opposition, he also emerges as a person collaborating with the presidential administration in the case of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” and does not even particularly try to hide his closeness to the Kremlin. Alexey Mitryushin, who was one of the leaders of the Gallant Steeds group and participated in the attacks, is now posing as one of the Moscow region officials (Mitryushin is the chairman of the Council of Deputies of the Vidnoye urban settlement. - Ed.) in front of news agency cameras and feels comfortable.

Leonid Simunin “DPR” summer 2014

It is also interesting that the above-mentioned Leonid Simunin, according to Novaya Gazeta, was the curator of the nationalist organization “Russian Image” and terrorists from the so-called. BORN, who is responsible for many murders, the most famous of which are the murder of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov. In this regard, no one should be surprised by the fact that Leonid Simunin surfaced in 2014 as one of the curators of the so-called militants. "LPR-DPR".

Now let's move on to our hero of the day - Alexander Shprygin, known in narrow circles under the nickname "Kamancha". This former leader Dynamo fan movement (Moscow), now a member of the RFU executive committee, head of the All-Russian Fans Association. An interesting fact is that Shprygin’s business took a sharp turn after Vitaly Mutko was elected president of the RFU, who immediately held a meeting with the leaders of the main fan groups, including the already mentioned “Gallant Steeds” and “Gladiators”. The then head of the Dynamo fan club (Moscow), Shprygin, also took part in the meeting.

Shprygin himself talks about his career rise as follows:

Vladimir Putin and Shprygin (Comanche)

“When the MOB emerged, we met with the president of the RFU, Vitaly Mutko. He immediately gave us amazing discounts on tickets and a task: to create an all-Russian fan club called “Forward, Russia!” He promised to give the right to vote in the RFU. And then we will create a federal association, with local representatives. We are now out of politics, but closer to the elections we will change this position. The condition for cooperation so far is this: our representatives must be on the lists of parties in passing seats. So that laws are not passed without us.”

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After a massive brawl with English fans. Among them was the head of the All-Russian Fans Association (VOB), Alexander “Kamancha” Shprygin. The fans are in a deportation center and will be expelled from the country within five days.

Alexander Shprygin. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vitaly Bezrukikh

“The French authorities said that they made this decision for security reasons, as they see a potential threat from the deported fans. No other reasons were announced,” said a statement on the VOB website.

AiF.ru talks about what is known about Alexander “Kamancha” Shprygin.

Alexander Igorevich Shprygin born September 18, 1977. He first came to the stadium in 1989. In his own words, he has been a fan of Dynamo since he was 5 years old. In his youth, he practiced boxing for 3 years. He was a member of the Blue-White Dynamite (BWD) fan group and organized bus rides. Wherein vehicles sometimes they broke down on the way and fans could not get home.

In 1998 he joined the LDPR and became an adviser Zhirinovsky in sports and assistant Deputy Sergei Abeltsev. By the way, it was Abeltsev who introduced Kamancha to Viktor Baturin, who became the link between fans and Yuri Luzhkov during the organization of MOB - the Moscow Association of Fans.

In prison

In 2006, for a fight in the apartment of the leader of the group “Metal Corrosion” Sergei "Spider" Troitsky, with whom Kamancha could not share the money, was arrested and spent a year in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. As a result, the prosecutor's office was never able to prove the accusation - the case was finally closed in 2008.

Business

According to various sources, Kamancha may own the Gol cafe, a car service and cargo transportation company, and 300 hectares of land in the Pskov region on the site of the Pukhnovo cooperative.

Kamancha is actively involved in sales of Dynamo paraphernalia: he is the general director of FC Dynamo-Moscow Fan Club LLC (revenue in 2009 for SPARK - 8.2 million rubles) and Dynamo Fan Club LLC (revenue in 2009 for SPARK - 19.6 million rubles). The first company belongs to the club itself, the second to Shprygin.

Kamancha is interested in the work of the chanson group “Vorovaiki” and even acted as a producer of one of their videos, playing the main role in the video.

In September 2012, a council of all significant associations of the Dynamo fan movement was held, as a result of which the following decision was made: Alexander Shprygin, due to loss of trust, no longer has the right to represent the interests of Dynamo fans. As the General Director of Fan Club LLC football club"Dynamo Moscow", he represents only himself and his personal interests.

All-Russian public movement “All-Russian Association of Fans” is a Russian public organization uniting sports fans, mostly football. However, the organization includes fans of hockey, basketball, volleyball, bandy and other team sports.

The other day, a council of all significant associations of the Dynamo fan movement was held, as a result of which the following decision was made:

From this day on, Alexander Shprygin, due to loss of trust, no longer has the right to represent the interests of Dynamo fans. As the general director of Dynamo Moscow Football Club Fan Club LLC, he represents only himself and his personal interests.

For this reason, the Dynamo fan movement does not want to have anything to do with this person and leaves all organizations headed by him.

Dynamo movement: 9, Patriots, Capitals, OTF, Ultra, Internet, Old West.

Shprygin: An Extraordinary PSB Conference may be convened in the near future:

Today it became known that the Dynamo fan club announced its withdrawal from the All-Russian Fans Association. The head of the VOB, Alexander Shprygin, spoke about this in a conversation with a correspondent, “ Soviet sports" Official statement.

“Today at the Dynamo office there was a meeting of the leaders of all the main groups of blue and white fans,” says Shprygin. – At the meeting, the issue of the further functioning of the Dynamo fans club was discussed. Since 2008, I have not been a representative of the executive management body of the fans club. However, until the last moment I remain a guide in the dialogue between fans and the club’s management. On February 20, the Founding Conference of the Dynamo Fan Club MOO was held, the president of which was elected Sergei Drozdov, who is a representative of the Dynamo movement in the VOB. Unfortunately, in my opinion, Sergei did not cope with his task - neither as the head of the Dynamo Design Bureau, nor as a representative of the movement in the VOB. The founding documents were not submitted to the Ministry of Justice; the club does not have a legal entity. All collegial governing bodies today are conceptual. I respect the opinion of Dynamo fans, I come from the club, it is dear to me. I have been an active participant in the Dynamo fan movement for more than 20 years. From 2002 to 2008 he was the head of KB Dynamo. And the way the question was raised, when colleagues expressed distrust, is a personal tragedy for me. During the 5 years of my presidency in the VOB, the issue of a vote of no confidence was raised many times, but from a legal point of view, the Conference elected me as leader. And as in the case of the so-called VOB revolution, it still did not become clear to me how I deceived the hopes of Dynamo fans.

“Nevertheless,” Shprygin continues, “if the decision on a vote of no confidence is made by a majority of votes, then as a self-respecting person I cannot but agree with it.” And I don’t see any further point in my participation in the governing bodies of the Dynamo fan movement. At the same time, I will always remain a devoted fan of the club and am ready to fully help by passing on my experience. I really hope that in the near future the movement of Dynamo fans will take into account the mistakes, form a single organization, register it legally in order to conduct a dialogue with the official bodies, and elect a worthy leader. A little time will pass and some nuances will appear decision taken will float up. I can’t comment in detail, but I regret what happened.

— In addition to KB Dynamo, where I was employed, there is VOB, which is a very powerful organization in its structure, has a wide network of regional offices, is part of the RFU, has a voice at the Conference, and a place on the executive committee. VOB is an organization supported by the state; since 2007 we have been registered with the Ministry of Justice. According to the results of the meeting of fans with the then Prime Minister of the country V.V. Putin, representatives of the VOB in those cities where the 2018 World Cup will be held are involved in the work of regional organizing committees, and the VOB is a partner of the organizing committee of the 2018 World Cup. This is an established organization that is part of the country's football system. But when the VOB leaves the movement of my native Dynamo, which has been my stronghold all these years, I don’t see it possible for myself to count on the fact that I will continue to be the president of the organization for a long time. But I will in no way let down the people with whom I have worked all this time. All current activities of the VOB will continue in full, but I do not rule out that in the near future an Extraordinary Conference of the movement will be convened, which will attract fans from all over the country and where I will most likely announce my resignation from the post of president of the VOB. I would like for the VOB to become in the future what it is according to its Charter - a trade union that unites all fans of the country. I hope that in this case, representatives of fans of Spartak, CSKA and Zenit will restore their membership in the organization. The elections, like the last presidential elections of the RFU, will be held openly and democratically. Wherein I would not like people with extremist sentiments to take power in the organization in the future. I have always defended the interests of the fans more than ordinary fans. But I wouldn’t want people with extreme views to stand at the head of the movement and defend these views at the official level. I hope that in the future the organization will also defend the interests of ordinary fans. VOB has a great future, I hope that at the two October matches of the national team the fans will rally around national team. The RFU is ready to cooperate with fan associations to attract fans to the national team’s matches, as Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstykh stated at a meeting with the leaders of fan movements shortly after his election.