As Octagon noted, he refuses to pay an elite sports clinic, and now the bailiffs in the capital are trying to recover this money. Savin himself appears in the case of discrediting the Russian army. The football player wants to distance himself from Russia so much that most of the legionnaires in his own new team in Cyprus are Ukrainians. With such a policy, it will not be easy for him to get sponsorship money from former partners – bookmakers.
Doctors and bailiffs are looking for a blogger
The Moscow sports medicine clinic Luzhniki (partly owned by the Moscow City Hall) filed a lawsuit in the summer of 2022 over 150,000 rubles owed to it by the amateur football club Krasava, owned by Yevgeny Savin, since spring. In October, the decision of the arbitration court was received, and in December, information about the outstanding debt of FC Krasava entered the database of the Federal Bailiff Service.
After completing his career in state football clubs, Savin began to build a media career on the state sports channel. Then he positioned himself on YouTube as an open, honest sports blogger – he talked about match-fixing, about how agents deceive football players, published information about the budget of the Krasava club.
After the start of the special military operation, Savin left Russia and in July 2022 registered the organization FC Krasava Ltd in Cyprus. Then the athlete stated that he had acquired the local Ypsonas club.
However, the rebranding of the new club did not work out right away. Firstly, it still does not have its own website – fckrasava.com is now opening as a “parking” plug with a mocking banner “If your business is not on the Internet, then you are not in business.”
In addition, while the project has a double name – FC KRASAVA ENI DIGENIS IPSONA. There are almost no Krasava clubs on various specialized sites – only Ypsonas is listed everywhere. And the emblem of the club has not yet been changed.
In addition to problems with branding, there are questions about the positioning of the new club.
The team currently plays in the second division of the Cypriot Championship and is at the bottom of the standings (“relegation group”). In the summer, Savin said that he would bring together talents “from all over the former CIS” in the club – as a result, in addition to the Cypriots, the team includes four Ukrainians (one of them later became a sports director), two Latvians, a Bosnian, a Slovak, a Dane, a Romanian, a Croat , Czech, Bulgarian and Portuguese. However, there is one player with a Russian passport – a pupil of FC Villarreal named Gleb Nesposudny. True, he also has a Greek passport, and in social networks he writes his name as Gkleb Nesposountnii.
Judging by data from open sources, this spelling is typical of the document on his Spanish residence permit.
How the new club will be able to gain a target audience is a question, because sport in general and football in particular are concepts closely related to loyalty to the club and the country, that is, to patriotism. And with him, the blogger started having problems last year. First, Savin who left in April was dedicated to one of the programs on Match TV, calling it Judas from YouTube. And then the outflow of viewers from the blogger’s private channel began – the number of video views on his YouTube channel (over 1 million subscribers) is declining: the latest videos lost in views to almost all videos of his “Russian period”. In addition, there is a constant decrease in the number of subscribers in the telegram channel of a football blogger.
Savin’s chance – in “agreements” and anti-Russian grants
It is known that the Premier League of the Cypriot championship includes two “Russian” clubs with Russian and Belarusian shareholders – “Aris” and “Paphos”. In Aris, for example, the famous ex-Dynamo player Alexander Kokorin plays.
It is not a fact that Savin’s club will live to see the release to the Major League planned in two or four years, because it is difficult for Savin abroad to find the same generous sponsors as in Russia. In April 2022, the betting company stopped funding his club. This happened after the release of anti-Russian videos. Now there are no indications of sponsors on the form of the players of Savin’s new club, although in August Savin assured that there were many of them, and on January 8, 2023, the blogger said that sponsors for the next season were only “appearing”. And now Savina’s club is directly accused of match-fixing.
However, Savin can apply to American or European funds for a grant to develop democracy and confront Russia in the field of football.
You can also ask for money from the Cypriot betting company with Kyiv roots Parimatch, which in 2022 pretended to leave Russia and created a fund to support Ukrainians, while continuing to finance the Torpedo Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod clubs. But this organization already contains several Cypriot football clubs.
In January 2023, it turned out that Savin had joined the SD Family “media” team from Kazakhstan, but this venture may not be successful if interest in the blogger from Russian law enforcement grows. The other day it became known about the initiation of a case against the athlete about discrediting the Russian army because of a selection of opinions of Ukrainian football players about a military special operation in Ukraine. So far, we are talking about a case of an administrative offense that provides for punishment in the form of a fine of up to 50 thousand rubles. In addition, the football player is threatened with the status of a foreign agent, which will also reduce his chances of finding a sponsor.
Upon learning of the initiation of a case against him for discrediting the army, Savin said that he was “proud of himself.”