Emmanuel Adebayor

Togolese football player and former Real Madrid player Emmanuel Adebayor gave an interview to Sport24. In an interview, Adebayor talked about the banning of Russian football players from international tournaments, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Russian colleagues: Adebayor played with Andrei Arshavin in the English football club Arsenal and Roman Pavlyuchenko in the English club Tottenham Hotspur. He also noted that he would love to work as a coach in Russia, although he had never played in Russian clubs.

Adebayor praised Andrey Arshavin’s abilities and called him “a great football player”. At the same time, Adebayor added that Arshavin plays at half strength because he “doesn’t like to do anything”.

Andrey Arshavin

The football player recalled that Arshavin was able to watch porn videos between training sessions.

The Russian football player has not yet commented on this news.

Adebayor also recalled the story of how Pavlyuchenko once came to drunken training. said.

Roman Pavlyuchenko

Pavlyuchenko told his own version of this story, calling Adebayor the “storyteller”.

Adebayor said that despite the bad attitude towards Russia in the West, he felt comfortable during his visit to the country – the football player came to Russia for the “RB Award 2022” (an international award in the field of sports and betting), which took place on June 30. At the same time, Adebayor admitted that he had previously turned down offers from Russian clubs because he did not want to play in Russia. Now the football player does not exclude that he can accept if he is called to the Russian club as a coach.

He added that he did not find it fair to exclude Russian teams from international tournaments due to Russian military special operations in Ukraine.

Emmanuel Adebayor also spoke about his attitude towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and noted that he was a “man of his word”.

Emmanuel Adebayor retired two years ago.