Having escaped to PITTSBURG, Evgeni Malkin framed a huge number of people, both close to him and completely unfamiliar. The new head coach of the Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov, who planned to create the first five around Malkin. Vladislav Tretyak, who now needs to say something and do something. The general director of Metallurg Gennady Velichkin, who, using the example of Malkin, decided to educate the entire NHL and, it turns out, brought up himself. Finally, all the Russian fans who dreamed, exhausted simply from the desire for another season to enjoy the game of the delightfully talented center forward. In Internet forums, which are a very accurate (do not go to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center) projection of the most diverse mindsets, the word "bastard" has already flickered, they have already remembered the similar escape of Alexander Mogilny in 1989, they have already rattled kvass: we educated him, we taught him to play, and he betrayed-sold. Well, is it not a scoundrel?
Now, when I, who is seated in letters with a white quark sheet, is separated from you who read at least four days, the whereabouts of Yevgeny Malkin is unknown ( This column was written before Malkin was discovered in the USA. Editor’s Note ), as well as the circumstances that forced the hockey player to sign a new one contract with Metallurg . . This ill-fated contract, mentioned with surprise (why did I sign it, since I firmly decided to leave for the NHL) in almost every commentary, together with the circumstances of the escape, no matter what Velichkin says every day, there is only one evidence. If in 2006 one of the best hockey players in the world disappears at the airport, like some Rudolf Nuriev, then he was forced to sign a contract with Metallurg. And somehow they forced me to say that Malkin was either afraid or no longer wanted to talk to these people. Judging by the garden that the metallurgical general director carries, it is really impossible to listen to it for a long time.
The current strangeness of this story is not at all in the escape committed after Malkin received guarantees of some record-high sum from Metallurg. It is surprising that all these experienced adult people sincerely believe that Malkin owes them something. The main task of the hockey player Malkin is not to be the leader of the Russian national team at the World Cup and thereby help Tretyak to fulfill the promise made to Putin to win medals. Not to please the eyes of the inhabitants of Magnitogorsk with their game. These are all consequences. And even more so, Malkin does not live and score so that, with his example, bidding with the NHL would be conducted. Hockey player Malkin is primarily responsible for not spoiling his huge talent. And the only league today that will allow him to do this without losing years and opportunities is the NHL. Point.
TWO THOUSANDS that rely on the NHL for a Russian club even for Malkin, even for Chalkin, even for Zalkind, look, of course, offensive and almost gnawed by a bone. Why - in fact - if the MLS club wants to buy, for example, Kerzhakov, then it will be forced to forget about the Labor Code and pay the market price, but there is no market for the NHL club, but only the Labor Code? Very simple - why. In football, there is FIFA, which establishes its own internal rules, and without regard to the US and the American market as not too significant. In hockey, the NHL is essentially a monopolist who is imposing more convenient orders on the rest of the world. But this is how all monopolists seem to behave - as far as the law allows them, they are so crushing.
Only now there is no Law on Sport in Russia. A law that would separate athletes from journalists or plumbers, since indeed professional sport in its internal structure is very different from the media or DEZ. A law that would help professional leagues and clubs be market structures, rather than pocket theaters or social projects. And there is absolutely no one to develop such a law in the country. And even more so - to accept it with a well-rehearsed Duma whistle: a couple of hours.
This is not Gennady Velichkin working for a person with a fortune of $ 5.4 billion. This is not the Minister of Sports, Vyacheslav Fetisov, is friends with Shoigu, God already knows how many years he is a ministry player and he is a former hockey player. This is not Vladislav Tretyak sitting in the State Duma from the "United Russia". It’s not Vitaliy Mutko who poses to lead football on a team from the Kremlin’s office. This is not the president of the FSB Patrushev creates a multi-million dollar sports empire (Dynamo teams will soon begin investing dollars in programs from redundancy). It was not Alexander Karelin who helped some Gryzlov from the “bears” to get out of people. It's Malkin's fault. It was he who sold his homeland for dollars.
Text: Stanislav GRIDASOV
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