MOSCOW: CSKA Moscow’s Brazilian right-back Mario Fernandes will be able to play for Russia after he was just the latest foreign player to be granted citizenship, a presidential decree published on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) said.

The 25-year-old defender, who has won three Russian Premier League titles, is the third foreign-born football player to receive Russian citizenship over the past year.

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