Two more candidates were officially nominated for the vacant post of Russian FA president Monday, including the first former players to enter the race, officials said Monday.
Soviet international defender Evgeny Lovchev has joined the running, alongside former Dynamo Moscow player and current Russian Olympic Committee executive director Nikolai Tolstykh.
Lovchev and Tolstykh join Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, Russian Premier League chief Sergei Pryadkin and politician Igor Lebedev as nominees.
The FA, known officially as the Russian Football Union, has been without a president since Sergei Fursenko resigned in the wake of Russia's Euro 2012 group stage exit.
The union is to elect a new president by secret ballot on September 3.
Lovchev, 63, spent most of his playing career in Spartak Moscow, making 249 appearances and scoring 30 goals. He currently works a a football exptert for several Russian top media.
He was nominated by the lower-level All-Russian Association of Football, whose manager Anzor Kavanashvili told R-Sport of the move.
Tolstykh, 56, has devoted much of his time to management roles at Dynamo since ending his playing career in 1983, and is a former president of Russia's Professional Football League, a now-defunct body which used to organize the country's top divisions.
