Youngsters wearing mixed martial arts gloves are seen with bloody faces as they batter each other at training camps
FEARED Russian hooligan gangs are training up KIDS as young as 13 to help them take on rival fans at the World Cup.
Capos – or leaders – of ultras from top teams in Moscow and St Petersburg organise fights between groups of schoolboys from rival firms.
They are set to unleash the toughest lads from each group at the World Cup – and they have Three Lions fans at the top of their hit list.
A yob from top side Zenit St Petersburg revealed: “Some of these young ultras are ready to kill. They’ll be tough enough to fight any English supporter.
“They are ready to bring hell to the World Cup. The young boys are trained by the capos from the main gangs and the best ones will be chosen to join the adult ultras. Some are only 13.”
The lads do battle in organised fights with equal numbers from each team pitted against one another.
Some even wear shirts with numbers on the back so they can be identified in melees. Many wear mixed martial arts gloves.
The brutal fights are filmed by older members of their hooligan outfits and uploaded to YouTube and fan sites dedicated to football violence.
They have names like Kinder Team CSKA and Young Horses CSKA – after the top Moscow side – and Young Zenit (Zenit St Petersburg) and the Puppeteers (Spartak Moscow).
Last month it was revealed that female ultras were also set to be unleashed at the World Cup.
Disturbing footage was revealed showing the women thugs doing battle with female counterparts in organised fights.
And some of the women also join forces with male firms of yobs in mass brawls arranged in woods and industrial estates away from the reach of security forces.
Russian ultras have been threatening violence at the World Cup for months.
A rampaging mob of Russian fans attacked Three Lions supporters on the streets of Marseille and in the stadium during the nations’ Euro 2016 match.
And a senior cop has predicted more mayhem at this summer’s World Cup.
Police in the UK expect around 10,000 England fans to go to the World Cup, as opposed to the estimated 500,000 supporters from across the UK who attended Euro 2016.
Britain’s most senior football police officer has warned England fans travelling to the World Cup they are in danger of being subjected to an “extreme level of violence” at the hands of Russian hooligans.
Deputy chief constable Mark Roberts, the National Police Chiefs’ Council football policing lead who co-ordinated Britain’s policing operation at Euro 2016 and will do so again at the World Cup, said: “There are risks, because if you look back to what happened in Marseille, there were Russian supporters there intent on causing significant disorder and causing significant injury
“You only have to go on YouTube to see that there is an active hooligan issue in Russia and it generally operates at a pretty extreme level of violence. There clearly is a potential issue.”
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