A sensational statement was made by the former Manchester United striker, and now the sports commentator Erik Cantona. In a joke clip posted in the Twitter Eurosport microblog, he stated that the hand of the Kremlin was implicated in the victory of the Russian national team over the Spanish team. In the video, Cantona reads an allegedly intercepted transcript of a conversation from the Kremlin - an overheard conversation by a certain Vladimir P.

After the game by Gerard Piquet and the appointment of a penalty, the mysterious interlocutor says: "It's all right, you can let go of Shakira". I'm not sure what that means, but the victory over Spain has become Russia's greatest international achievement since the last US elections, with a mysterious airshot pronounced Cantona. Russians beat Spain 4: 3 in Luzhniki on July 1. In the main and extra time the match ended in a draw, the victory was won by the Russian team after a penalty shootout.