As we reported earlier, the Czech embassy in Moscow refused to issue visas to five employees of the coaching staff of Dynamo Moscow with the wording "there are no confirmed grounds for entry to the Czech Republic." Visas were issued to only 12 members of our delegation out of 17. Thus, the decision of the Czech embassy forced our team to fly to the Champions League match with Dukla in the Czech Republic with an incomplete squad - without a senior coach, a statistics coach, a warm-up coach, a massage therapist, a doctor.
Our club informed the European Volleyball Confederation that it could not fly to the game on Tuesday with an incomplete squad due to the decision of the Czech embassy, and asked for assistance in issuing visas or in transferring this match to another country or to a later date in the Czech Republic.
In response to requests to assist our club, the CEV replied that the match with Dukla would not be postponed. Dynamo will be credited with a technical defeat for not showing up for the game on February 2.
Dynamo CEO Vladimir Zinichev in an interview with Match TV in detail about - https://matchtv.ru/volleyball/matchtvnews_NI1478516_Vopijushhij_fakt_nesportivnogo_otnoshenija_k_rossijskoj_komande__Zinichev_o_situacii_s_vizami_dla_Dinamo
