Chechen leader offers to buy footballer in Putin T-shirt row
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MOSCOWFeb 22, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Feb 22, 2016 12:00 am
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Sunday offered to buy Russian footballer Dmitry Tarasov for the Terek Grozny club after UEFA charged the player for wearing a pro-Putin T-shirt.
Kadyrov, who boasts of his devotion to President Vladimir Putin and himself wears similar T-shirts, wrote on Instagram that "Terek is ready to buy the player." He said that if Tarasov did not want to join, the Chechen club was also willing to pay off the fine - reportedly of 300,0000 euros - slapped on Tarasov by his Lokomotiv Moscow club.
Tarasov's gesture was criticised by many sports figures and politicians in Russia, particularly since his team had just lost the match with Turkish giants Fenerbahçe.
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