An hour of staying on the website of the Russian Football Union with in-depth reading of news worthy of the attention of this organization allows us to state: in the two weeks that have passed since the day the Russian youth team played the last match of the qualifying tournament with the Hungarian team, there were no explanations on the situation with the main the coach of our team.
WHAT WE ARE CLEAR WITH THE WATERMAN ....
I remind you: during the preparatory training camp for the qualifying matches, it suddenly turned out that the youth team was actually left without a mentor; Guus Hiddink constantly needed the help of Alexander Borodyuk as a second coach. And then, recognizing the absurdity of the situation, Vitaly Mutko at a press conference in Bor promised that after the game with the Hungarians the necessary decisions would be made and the “youth team” would have a full-fledged coach.
After that, a lot of words were said at the opening of artificial fields, which the National Football Academy does not tire of building in Nalchik, Makhachkala and Vladimir; benefited veterans; congratulated the student team, whose players have become either the best students among mini-football players, or vice versa. For these urgent matters, who would argue, there was no time to clarify anything about the youth team.
That is, it is already clear in an explicit order that Alexander Borodyuk is in charge of it. But it is not clear how. Playoff matches with the Portuguese (quote from Borodyuk’s interview: “We got a difficult opponent” - and this, of course, is true) again coincide in time with the games of the national team, the difference is one day. Well, I fly to Portugal for five hours, just in case.
If the situation can be called clear, then I would like for the person who realized this to be found too. So he went to the journalists, laughed right in their face and said: yes, everything is clear right there!
CHERKIZOVSKY LAWN ...
Other managerial decisions of the RFU, which became known this week, are no less surprising. To begin with, through the mouth of Vitaly Mutko, the national team refused to play the next two games at Lokomotiv. Reason: the lawn needs to be put in order. Is everything clear again? The lawn is really unimportant ...
But what’s interesting: Vitaly Mutko said these words at a meeting with the directors of the country's stadiums and sports facilities, where, in particular, Evgeny Giner was present. Let me remind you, the president of the Premier League and CSKA. What do you think: is it possible for Giner not to watch the match between the national teams of Russia and Croatia? So that the whole discussion about the locomotive lawn, which has been exaggerated by the press for almost a week, has passed this attentive manager? It seems that neither one nor the other is possible.
Attention: question! And why Yevgeny Giner does not take measures to transfer matches of his CSKA in the Champions League from Lokomotiv stadium to Dynamo? Moreover, for his team, unlike the national team, the stadium in Petrovsky Park is basically home. You don’t even need to get used to it. And certainly matches in the Champions League for the club owner mean, I think, no less than for the president of the RFU the game of the national team.
I have my own version of events.
First: I think Evgeny Giner understands perfectly the exaggeration of the problem.
Second: he analyzes the situation as a whole. There is a lawn, which, incidentally, is not bad at all in principle - but we just knew the best times at this stadium. But there is an audience that has the right to a certain comfort. There is a quality television picture. There are revenues from the sale of tickets - at Lokomotiv they are higher than at any other stadium in the country, because there is a VIP that brings the most significant percentage.
... AND PRIORITIES OF THE PRESIDENT RFU?
Vitaly Leontyevich circumvented all these problems, although they are no less important for the national team - the team simply got used to Lokomotiv. Read the interview of the players - they have repeatedly talked about the special atmosphere of this stadium and how the support of fans works on it in various situations. Habits are both the comfort of locker rooms and a lot of little things ...
But instead, we hear more than once heard: now, look, the women's world championship, at the stadium. Streltsov played eight matches in general - and nothing. As if on East Street at least two of them played in a row and in the rain, and even with the award ceremony. Of course, you cannot personally keep track of everything in the world. But didn’t the most different people express the most serious concern when they saw with what creak the new president of the RFU forms his team? I mean the management team, of course. Here it is, the work of this team - there is no one to warn about obvious things. No one to figure out. There is no one to warn against new mistakes ...
I’m talking about Vitaliy Mutko’s great initiative to play the second match of the game session with Estonia in St. Petersburg. No, it’s great that they could root for the national team in different cities of the country. But, by the way, our team is still a completely new team, and in its current composition every hour of training work is dear to her. Little things in life, so what? We will spend time moving from city to city - we’ll not get away from training, but from rest?
But what a gift to the fans!
Well yes. And if the team loses points in the match with the Estonians, this “gift” will not outweigh?
And Borodyuk has already been completely forgotten, to whom he must make an extra hook, hastening from Portugal to St. Petersburg. Well, yes, he is still a young man, athletic.
Vanity.