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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 by "respected people."
While Kapkov was expected to offer a genuine challenge to Fursenko, the majority of experts believe that nothing now stands in the way of his victory in Wednesday"s polls.
Former Spartak player Yevgeny Lovchev suggested to RIA Novosti that Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, both St. Petersburg natives, were strongly in favor of Fursenko.
"We have a vertical power structure and the authorities appoint
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