Azerbaijani elected member of RFU Executive Committee

Baku. 24 September. REPORT.AZ/ New composition of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union has been named.

Report informs, the election was carried out within the union's extraordinary conference.

Emil Aliyev, Azerbaijani origin President of the Russian Mini-Football Association, is also among 21 members. The 38-year-old official will be firstly represented in the governing body.

E.Aliyev was born in Baku in 1978. He graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation in 2011 and was elected president of the Russian Mini-Football Association on August 3, 2011.

Notably, Executive Committee Chairman will be Vitaly Mutko, who re-elected to the post RFU president. Nikita Simonyan will act as a first vice president, Sergey Pryadkin and Anatoly Turchak as vice presidents, Alexander Mirzoyan as an adviser to V.Mutko. Earlier, the RFU Executive Committee consisted of 33 members.