Soccer Football - Europa Conference League - Play Off Second Leg - Vitesse Arnhem v SK Rapid Wien - GelreDome, Arnhem, Netherlands - February 24, 2022 Vitesse Arnhem players acknowledges their fans after the match REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Russian man who owns a controlling stake in Dutch football club Vitesse Arnhem will sell his shares and quit the club's corporate board, he said on Friday.
"It does me much pain to leave Vitesse in this way, but in the current situation I am taking this difficult decision in the interest of the club, employees, supporters, sponsors and other stakeholders," Valeriy Oyf said in a statement on the club's website.
