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26 ноября 2001, 19:39

Football The sortition will take place without Russian national team coaches

On the sortition ceremony of the World Champions finals which is to take place in Pusan on Saturday Russia will be represented by RFS president Vyacheslav Koloskov, RFS general director Alexander Tukmanov and national team managers Alexander Hadji and Viktor Zinchenko, SE correspondent Alexander PROSVETOV reports.

Koloskov, who is going to take part in the meetings of different FIFA bodies, including Executive committee, went to Korea on Sunday. The rest of our representatives are going to Pusan via Tokio on Thursday. According to Alexander Hadji after the sortition together with Zinchenko he is going to look for a team base for the tournament - depending on the results of the sortitions in Korea and Japan.

The team's chief coach Oleg Romantsev wasn't initially going there, unlike chief coach Mikhail Gershkovich, who said today that he was not going to Pusan.