Guus Hiddink will meet with the new president...
was earlier offered a new contract up until Euro 2012. His current deal runs out this summer.The previous RFU head, Vitaly Mutko, stepped down late last year after President Dmitry Medvedev said that the organization should not be headed by a political figure. Mutko has served as sport, tourism and youth minister in the government since May 2008.
If Fursenko comes out on top in Wednesday"s vote by RFU delegates, his links with Gazprom mean the energy giant is likely to take over from billionaire Roman Abramovich as the main source of funding for Russia"s top football body. Abramovich"s National Football Academy stopped paying Hiddink"s wages at the beginning of this year.
Fursenko"s rivals are Sergei Kuzmin, the vice-president of lower-league club Volga FK, and the chief of the fund for the development of football, Alisher Aminiov.
National Football Academy head Sergei Kapkov earlier pulled out of the race, saying he had been told to withdraw
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