In the management of football club “Zenit” changes happened. Deputy General Director of “Gazprom oil” Elena Ilyukhina became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the club, and the new President appointed the former head of the Continental hockey League Alexander Medvedev. In these positions they changed Alexander Dyukov, the President-elect of the Russian football Union, Sergei Fursenko, who will continue as Vice-President of “Gazprombank”.

  • Alexander Medvedev
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In one of the leading football clubs of Russia, Saint-Petersburg “Zenit”, the changes happened on the main leadership positions. The new Chairman of the Board of Directors is Alexander Dyukov was elected Elena Ilyukhin and Alexander Medvedev replaced Sergei Fursenko on a post of the President of the club.

Care dyukova from Zenit, also from 2008 through 2017 has held the position of President, were to be expected. 22 February, he was elected as the new President of the Russian football Union (RFU), after which the CEO and the Chairman of the Board of “Gazprom Neft” was to break their ties with the club.

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Reshuffle in the post of President — General Director of “Zenit” is a surprise. Fursenko has joined Gazprombank as Vice President of the company, retaining only the status of a member of the Board of Directors of “Zenith”, in which he is the representative of the Bank. He was replaced by Vice-Chairman of the Board “Gazprom” Alexander Medvedev.

The approval of Illinoi for the position of head of the Board of Directors include Medvedev will soon be considered by the shareholders ‘ meeting of “Zenit”. The meeting also will consider a number of amendments to the Charter of the club, aimed at increasing the efficiency of the Board of Directors.

Ilyukhin in the last ten years working as a Deputy General Director of “Gazprom oil” for legal and corporate Affairs, as a matter of fact one of the Trustees dyukova, which he decided to transfer in “Zenith”. Previously, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the club.

Alexander Medvedev is well known in sporting circles primarily as hockey and tennis functionary. He is the first President of the Continental hockey League, which he led for eight years prior to the transfer of powers of Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Now Medvedev is on the Board of Directors of hockey SKA St. Petersburg, which, like the “Zenit” football is one of the top teams in the country.

63-year-old Manager is the CEO of St.Petersburg Ladies Trophy — the Women’s tennis Association tournament, held annually in St. Petersburg.

In his first comments after his appointment as the President “Zenith” Medvedev said that he intends in the near future to lead the club to victory in the championship of Russia, and also in the European cups.

“The goal is one “Zenith” — the champion. In the Russian championship and in the Europa League. And, of course, a return to the Champions League. The recent match against Fenerbahce showed that the team has potential. Sardar Azmoun has confirmed the correctness of the transfer policy. He scored three points, as they say in hockey, two scored, one gave”, — Medvedev said “Sport-Express”.

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Before Medvedev was not related to football, but he is sure that the experience in hockey will allow him to quickly join in the work.

“Despite the specificity of each sport there are General principles and rules of the club management and the team. With my experience and SKA in the KHL I will be able to work on this post and in “Zenith” — said Medvedev.

In this season “Zenith” has headed the championship of Russia on football at the end of 17 rounds out of 30. Wards Sergei Semak ahead by one point “Krasnodar” and four — CSKA Moscow. Saint-Petersburgers have resticky stock in relation to the “Spartak” and “locomotive”, aspiring to get into the Champions League zone. The upcoming match in the RPL, Zenit will hold on March 2 with the “Ural” in Yekaterinburg.

In this season’s Europa League blue-white-blue reached the 1/8 finals, where 7 and 14 March, will play with the Spanish “Villarreal”. In the Cup of Russia “Zenit” his speech has already completed in the 1/8 finals, having lost to “Rostov” in last November.