Russian football is sorely let down by the quality of the pitches, Anzhi director Roberto Carlos told RIA Novosti.
A host of the country's football stars slammed the muddy, sleety surfaces they were forced to play on when the Premier League season resumed on March 3.
Lokomotiv striker Roman Pavlyuchenko complained they were fit only for rugby.
"The infrastructure that lots of clubs have right now, of course, is deserving of better pitches, just as footballers have earned the chance to play on good-quality surfaces," Roberto Carlos told RIA Novosti in an interview this week.
"The quality of the field of play has a huge effect on the quality of the game. It's not enough to have a nice big stadium, like Dynamo Moscow have, if the quality of the turf is such that it's impossible to show what the team's capable of," he said.
"Technical players, footballing artists, just can't work with the ball on bad pitches," he said.
Rubin's Russian Cup quarterfinal against Lokomotiv Moscow on March 21 moved to the Chechen capital Grozny due to the worn out playing surface in Kazan.
Anzhi face CSKA Moscow in the Russian Premier League later Saturday.
