Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, who has been banned for life from the Olympic Games over doping, on Wednesday stepped down as the head of the country’s football federation.
The move was widely expected after Mutko announced last year he would temporarily step back from the Russian Football Union to concentrate on his role in government.
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“Vitaly Mutko is leaving his post as president of the Russian Football Union,” the organisation said in a tweet on its official account.
The position will be temporarily filled by Sergei Pryadkin, the head of the Russian Premier League, RFU committee member Igor Lebedev said on Twitter.
A permanent president will be chosen at a meeting of the RFU in February, he added.
Mutko in December last year also left his position as chairman of Russia’s 2018 World Cup organising committee, in the wake of his Olympic ban.
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