Olga Smorodskaya, the former president of the Moscow football club Lokomotiv, said she did not want to apologize for the words about “racists” in Spartak. RIA Novosti reports her words.
“I did not offend or offend anyone. What interests should I defend? For what am I, as they say in “Spartacus”, to answer according to the law? I didn’t accuse anyone of racism. I said that the behavior of the Spartak team is a manifestation of disrespect for the supporters of the action. No accusations of racism followed from me, ”Smorodskaya said.
Earlier, the ex-president of Lokomotiv in an interview with Sport24 called Spartak a “racist club” after the club’s players refused to kneel down and support the Black Lives Matter campaign (BLM, “Black Lives Are Important”) before the start of the match of the 4th round of the League group round Europe with English Leicester City. Later, the press service of “Spartak” considered Smorodskaya’s statement “too serious an accusation, for which they will have to answer within the framework of the law.”
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