According to Victor Monday:

Flying with the Rostov SKA on a tour of Africa. One of the matches was played against the national team of Mali. The goalkeeper went out with the monkey on a chain, placed it on the fence. It is like a talisman. And here I beat from a distance, I get into the curtain, this martyrdom falls deadly.
What started! The goalkeeper takes her on his hands, the whole team stops. They shout, shake their hands and leave the field. The spectators also shook. The translator says: “A scandal! If she dies, we will not leave.”
But the monkey woke up and the match continued. They played 1:1. A correspondent of the French "Team" transmitted on the phone about the case. But the connection was bad, or the translation was confused.
In general, our newspapers wrote that Monday killed a monkey at the gate of the Mali national team by a strike of terrible force.