"Dumbed down": Russian Olympic champion invented a Russian boycott of the Champions League and became a laughingstock

Russian soccer fans allegedly do not want to watch international tournaments without the participation of teams from the aggressor country, and interest in the sport in Russia has fallen. Fans have abandoned the Champions League and other European tournaments "out of patriotic feelings."

This opinion was expressed by Olympic champion and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova in an interview with the RB Sport portal. These words caused laughter among the fans.

"Russians don't want to watch European football out of patriotic feelings. If people used to watch UEFA tournaments even if Russian teams didn't play there, now they don't see the point. And you will remember how many people loved and supported football in 2018, when we had the World Cup. If we hold the same tournament in a number of years, interest in football will grow again," Zhurova said.

Readers of the Sports.ru portal made a real laughingstock out of the former ice skater. They noted that she does not understand anything about what is happening in football.

"And deputies, out of patriotic feelings, drive foreign cars, use American gadgets, wear European and American clothes and use their cosmetics," "Who told her they don't want to watch European football? Valuev and Rodnina?", "This lady brings such a dagger every time," "Zhurova, who has dumbed down, will lie to us that we allegedly don't watch European football," "Some other universe this person has," they wrote in the comments.

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