The value of the Cup of Russia as a serious tournament is rapidly devaluing. Schedule a match at 2 p.m. on Monday (not to mention the date - February 26) - this is no way. It is interesting that the representatives of Moscow and Amkar were extremely dissatisfied with the situation, but they did not even think of agreeing to play at least the day before, on Sunday, so that there would be more than 250 people in the stands.
Employees of the Perm club, by the way, were very nervous, waiting for the team. 40 minutes were left before the match, but there were no players.
“Stuck somewhere in traffic jams,” Permyaks worried. - The driver recently called from Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
- From which Kutuzovsky? This is not the way from the hotel to the stadium!
- Yes? We don’t know why he brought him there.
There was a time to ask the Amkar residents why they signed the broken-broken Spaniard Antonio Soldeville.
- The decision was made by the president and head coach. Nobody else.
“Will you hire a translator for him?” No one speaks Spanish in the team.
- Rakhimov owns. He will talk to him.
They said this, by the way, somehow evil, with sarcasm.
Finally, the bus arrived. One of the first came defender Alexei Popov. He was talking peacefully with acquaintances about something, while his comrades ran headlong into the locker room in order to have time to warm up at least a little before the match.
- Alexei, why don’t you rush?
- But it turns out I can’t play. The bus announced that I was disqualified. It seems to be. No one has accurate information. You have?
Popov, by the way, waited for the starting protocol and carefully studied it - all of a sudden, they nevertheless made it to the application. They didn’t.
The freshman Soldeville did not play because he simply did not have time to declare - there are not all documents. He paced along the corridor, carefully examined the walls and tried to understand where he was. Judging by his face, knowledge was given to him in agony.
Football performed by teams left a little sad impression. Especially, in the first half when practically nothing happened. There were only screams after the falls, and the fans of Moscow, who at one time were more than fans of rivals, joyfully lit.
Pablo Barrientos, scoring a goal, jumped into a snowdrift.
- He promised to do it! - said the press attache of "Moscow". - He said that when he scored, he would fall in the snow.
The first to congratulate the partner ran Hector Bracamonte. Seeing that the countryman was lying in a snowdrift, he began to shower him with snow. Barrientos didn't like it anymore. He already accomplished a feat.
“I don’t know what happened to us,” said Rashid Rakhimov, trainer of the losers, at a press conference. - The judge, of course, could put up a penalty a couple of times ...
Russian football is back, comrades!
Alexey Shevchenko