Last week, the occupation “media” began to complain about the fact that in occupied Crimea such a “football club” as Yalta-located “Rubin” (“Rubin Yalta”) was “on the verge of closure”.
Statements of the “president of the football club” Kirill Shaposhnikov are quoted that “over the past months, the football club “Rubin Yalta” has encountered financial difficulties that threaten the further participation of our beloved football club in competitions. Despite all the efforts that are currently being made, the situation remains difficult.”
Against the background of Shaposhnikov’s statements about “support from the city administration” and “negotiations with potential investors”, “Rubin” fans even tried to hold a performance with “blood donation” to raise money for “support of the club”, but even such “radical measures” clearly did not affect the situation.
The occupiers do not advertise the reasons for the “temporary troubles”, but their roots go back to 2023, when the former “president” of Yalta’s “Rubin”, local collaborator Sergei Gardok, after the “clearly rigged” loss of his team to the “government” Simferopol “Tavria”, publicly “broke pots” with the criminal “sports minister” of the occupiers, Olga Torubarova from Kaluga.
Then the “government reaction” was lightning fast – Gardok himself was immediately sent to jail for several days as an “organizer of the riots”, and a “ministerial inspection” was immediately sent to Yalta.
Then Gardok was predictably “removed from office” in favor of the former “deputy for security”, that is, the FSB overseer of the football players, the aforementioned Shaposhnikov. And immediately after that, “Rubin Yalta”, together with the “football club” “Sevastopol”, was brought by the aggressor to the “second Russian division”, where they played their first matches on July 16, 2023.
Then this became a demonstrative violation by the aggressor of the 2014 UEFA decisions on Crimean football, which caused a statement by the Ukrainian Football Association to FIFA and UEFA.
However, “it was smooth on paper”, and none of the Russian football investors wanted to deal with “Rubin” in the future – not just as a Crimean team, but also as a violator of UEFA prohibitions.
And if the aforementioned “state-owned” “Sevastopol” began to launder hundreds of millions of “budget” money from the entourage of gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhaev, then the “private” Yalta club was advised by the local “administration” to “have a good mood and hold on”; therefore, the annual expenses of half a million dollars on “expensive and long trips” to Russia quickly destroyed the “financial reserve” of the Yalta “football players”.
In this whole story, the most remarkable thing is that “Rubin Yalta”, which had been worked on by the propaganda and special services of the aggressor to “overcome the football blockade”, turned into a worked-out and useless “consumable” in two years.
