"Vanity disgrace": how famous football players rest after matches. How our snickering footballers celebrate failure Our footballers snickering
Most recently, the players of the Russian national team Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev celebrated the departure of the team from the European Championship in Monte Carlo, where they went to rest immediately after returning from the tournament. However, not only Russian football players able to rest wide leg. NTV recalls how individual players and entire national teams celebrated not only their own victories, but also defeats.
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Alexander Kokorin (Zenit) and Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar)
What's happened?
Footballers of the Russian national team Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev at the Twiga nightclub. A video of a fragment of this action appeared on the Instagram network.
The players bought about 500 bottles of expensive champagne, which the waiters brought into the hall to the sound of the Russian anthem, and treated everyone to them. According to media reports, they spent about 250 thousand euros on this. The recording also shows that the players smoked a hookah.
In addition, a video appeared on the Internet capturing how Mamaev's wife Alan and Kokorin's girlfriend Daria Valitova.
This behavior did not go unnoticed by the public, and the clubs decided to punish too cheerful players. After a noisy party Mamaev, and Kokorin . Both players will also be fined by their respective clubs.
In the Kremlin, the party of football players in Monaco was called "a conceited disgrace."
Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation: “Obviously, everyone, including the president, has heard about the excess. It received very wide media coverage, a wide public response. Here, probably, you still need to be very careful, and first decide whether this conceited disgrace was paid for by our players or someone else. Here, you see, it’s unfounded, just throwing stones is very easy.”
Sports Minister and President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko promised that the behavior of the players will be taken into account when forming the national team.
The State Duma called the incident defiant against the backdrop of "achievements" at the European Championships.
Real Madrid players
What's happened?
In 2015, Real Madrid players Sami Khedira and James Rodriguez were disciplined by the club's management for participating in a noisy party on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.
Participants of this party were fined large sums. In addition, Sami Khedira did not enter the field in the first team of the Spanish team, and Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said that the players risked exacerbating existing health problems.
Such a severe punishment followed due to the fact that the players began to have fun immediately after devastating defeat from the Spanish club "Atletico" in the championship of Spain (0:4). Then club president Perez said: “Stop doing nonsense! Don't forget that millions of people are rooting for you!"
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In addition, the behavior of the hero of the occasion was called categorically unacceptable and even threatened to next time tougher punishment.
It must be said that fans of the players also did not like their behavior. Soon the offended crowd went to the gates of the club base with a banner "Your laughter our shame."
Ukrainian national team at Euro 2016
What's happened?
After the match with Germany at Euro 2016, which is now taking place in France, the media reported that the Ukrainian national team made a mess in the locker room: they found not only a large number of cigarette butts, but also bottles of beer and wine.
“The players removed the bitterness of defeat quickly,” German journalists from Bild noted in the description of the photo.
However, no official comments followed.
Note that the Ukrainians were the first of the participants in Euro 2016. They failed to score points and took fourth place in the group, their defeat from Northern Ireland played a role. The Ukrainian national team lost in that match with a score of 0:2.
Photo: Reuters/Yves Herman
In addition, on July 5, 2016, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) launched an investigation into the Ukrainian national team. Football players are suspected of doping: hypodermic syringes were found in the hotel where they lived. This was reported by the Belgian edition of Nieuwsblad. According to preliminary information, the French experts did not reveal any violations.
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool)
What's happened?
Liverpool midfielder Raheem Sterling was convicted not only of smoking a hookah, but also of using the so-called laughing gas.
In April 2015, the corresponding photo appeared on the Internet just a couple of hours after the player in an interview with the BBC announced that he was refusing a new contract with a salary of 100 thousand pounds a week.
According to media reports, the photo was taken by someone from the company with which Raheem Sterling was vacationing in Liverpool. The inscription “1 down 3 to go” (“it’s over with one, there are three left”) means that the famous football player was not limited to one hookah.
It should be noted that the club's management was extremely dissatisfied with this behavior of their player, but no sanctions were applied to him.
Franck Ribery (Bayern) and Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
What's happened?
Famous football players of the French national team were suspected of using the sexual services of a minor Zahia Dehar. On the eve of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the girl made a sensational statement that she had a sexual relationship with national team players Karim Benzema and Franck Ribery. She was under 18 at the time of the connection.
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What discoveries are still ahead of this championship? Nightmare Russian football. Will we learn anything?
Russian fans began to leave the stadium in Toulouse before the end of the game. “There must be a desire to fight for the country. Just go out and fight like the French,” they said.
“I saw how Smolov ran after Bale. The farther Bale ran to our gates, the quieter Smolov ran. And in the end he stopped. Russian athlete- said Evgeny Lovchev, sports columnist, in 1972-1975 - defender of the USSR national football team, master of sports of the USSR international class. “Today they are spoiled, snickering, exorbitantly paid, showing us on Instagram what kind of Mercedes they drive. And I'm interested in them showing how well they play at the European Championship, they score goals. There was an indicative moment when Roman Shirokov was replaced, he handed over the captain's armband. And Golovin gave a pass. Ignashevich refused. They didn't know who to give. A nightmare!"
Nevertheless, after the match, only Igor Akinfeev found the strength to approach the fans and apologize.
“I often quote Nikolai Petrovich Starostin, with whom I worked for many years at Spartak. He said: “If a fan sees that a player has given himself completely to the game, the fight, but has not won, he will forgive, but will not forgive indifference,” Nikita emphasized Simonyan, First Vice-President of the RFU, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
The stadium in Toulouse was the last place where the Russian national team played at Euro 2016. The football festival continues, but without us. After another failure, there is a lot of talk about what needs to be changed in domestic football, especially since in two years Russia will have the World Cup - a grand event where it is so important not to lose face.
Leonid Slutsky left the post of head coach of the national team. After a disastrous match, he, like a man, took full responsibility for himself. But specialists have the least complaints about the coach.
"After 2008, we are playing worse with each major tournament. It is obvious that this is a movement by inertia, a movement that is fading. We have structural problems in football," said Vladimir Stognienko, a sports commentator.
"If we have Russian championship you can play 5-6 games in a season, then in England or Spain or Germany you have to prove every game that you are the best, "said Andrey Kanchelskis, international class master of sports of the USSR, in 1989-1991 - midfielder of the USSR national team, in 1991-1995 - Manchester United midfielder.
The distant 1960, when the USSR national team became the winner of the European championship. The ball is received by Mikhail Meskhi. He beats the defender, an accurate cross on the goal, and Monday heads the second goal. This is the decisive goal that brought our team the European Cup. The winners were greeted by Paris.
After that, the Soviet Union team won silver three more times: in 1964, 1972 and 1988. In addition, the USSR national team became the champion Olympic Games in 1956 and 1988 and three times - bronze medalist Olympics. And the Soviet championship was completely different. Dozens of brilliant teams! Quite a different situation today.
“Where is the support, where is the youth?! Youth have no place in the teams of the main clubs. We basically have a bunch of legionnaires - these are consumer goods, people who have not found work in the West or in Eastern Europe. Where to go? To Russia. In Russia they pay money to the right and to the left, they are thrown," says Valery Reingold, football expert, master of sports of the USSR.
A vivid example of what is happening in domestic football is the legendary Dynamo club, for the first time in its history, was relegated from the Premier League. A real drama for fans and veterans.
“For all the players or Dynamo Moscow players of my generation, maybe older, it’s emptiness when you lose something close, dear. I still can’t believe that this happened. Of course, this is a tragedy,” Vladimir sighs Pilgui, in 1971-1980 - the goalkeeper of the USSR national team, master of sports of the USSR of international class.
The Dynamo stadium will soon look completely different. Construction is in full swing. But will he be able to shine on this site famous club, question.
"The team plays poorly, but they get big money. I think it's unfair: they either have to play well, or they have to get paid less," said Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Board of PJSC VTB Bank.
The main question is the level children's football, because in the same USSR hundreds of teams competed all over the country! Suffice it to recall at least the same "Leather Ball" and dozens of other tournaments.
Of course, even now with large and ambitious clubs football schools exist and even develop - say, in Krasnodar - but there are frankly few such examples.
“We need to return the children so that they play street to street in the village, then village to village, then district to district, region to region. It is necessary to create a whole system. The main thing is to football the country, make it fall in love with football,” Evgeny Lovchev is sure.
It is hardly possible to out-football the country in two years, but if nothing changes again during this time, it will be another powerful goal against us.
Jabar Askerov. / Photo: Viktor Sokolov
The strongest Russian welterweight kickboxer Dzhabar Askerov, in an exclusive interview with Sportbox.ru correspondent Ilya Buyaev, named the second Fedor Emelianenko, criticized the performance of the Russian team at the 2014 World Cup, and also told if he would agree to motivate our players with the help of fists.
- In your last fight, you took revenge on the Australian Steve Moxon. Can we now say that you have fully recovered from the defeat to the Dutchman Martell Groenhart and when should we expect your next meeting?
There will definitely be a rematch with Gron, I don’t know exactly when. Probably the end of this year, the beginning of next.
- When asked about your debut in MMA, you answer that you want to go into mixed martial arts on a positive note. How many victories do you still intend to win before this step?
I want to devote another year to K-1, and then you can move on to MMA. I can guess, but a lot depends on my promoter, the organizer of the fights. Wait and see. Most likely within the next six months.
- In the UFC, the main promotion of the world in mixed martial arts, several of your countrymen from Dagestan are performing at once - Khabib Nurmagomedov, Rustam Khabilov, Ali Bagautinov, Rashid Magomedov, Ruslan Magomedov, Omari Akhmedov. Which of them do you care about the most, whose style appeals to you the most?
Of course, I am sick, I always wish victories to all my countrymen, to all our citizens who perform there. But I root for Rashid Magomedov the most, I really like his fighting style. And first of all, I would single out his human qualities, willpower, character in battle. For me, in Russian MMA, he is the second Fedor Emelianenko. What in behavior, what in battle. I wish him only victories.
- Not so long ago, Ali Bagautinov was caught doping. Has your attitude towards Ali changed after this story?
I cannot change my attitude towards Ali because he uses doping. I am sure that 90-95 percent, you can even say that all one hundred percent of fighters in the UFC are doping. Someone takes illegal drugs, but removes them on time. When you live in a fighting family, you know this cuisine, you come across such things. Almost all fighters take chemo. Some are allowed, some are prohibited. But what they accept, I'm sure. The same Demetrius Johnson. He also gives such interviews: “Here I won on pure will and spirit, no matter how much Ali took doping.” Of course, this is all for PR, of course, he needs to give such interviews, but I would not make such statements. If you yourself are sitting on doping, you would keep quiet, well, the guy got caught, it happens that you can do it. And to say that I'm all so clean, and he's dirty - it's impossible.
- What is your relationship with the "Legend"? Has Ruslan Suleymanov already discussed with you the next fight under the auspices of the organization?
No, we didn't talk about the next show. But Ruslan ( organizer and director of the show "Legend", - approx.Sportbox.ru) there were plans for my rematch with Gronhart. This revenge is reserved for "Legend". There are no plans for the next show yet, but I hope that the organizers have plans for me as one of the top fighters in Russia. Athletes must be on the show high level. Everything, of course, depends on the promoters, but I will gladly accept the offer.
Where and with whom are you currently training?
At ArmaS.M.C. under the direction of Ruslan Krivusha. It so happened that my coach is now working here. Where am I without him? For the sake of Ruslan, he came to Moscow, he is a very talented specialist. And so I represent Fight Club Kuwait. I train there, most likely we will already hold training camps in Kuwait, I agreed with the club about this. But at this stage I am training at Arma club, here in Moscow.
- Recently, the Russian national football team failed at the World Cup in Brazil. Did you watch the tournament, what teams, besides ours, did you support?
Supported Brazil, Argentina, I have German friends, so a little for Germany. But after the recent events in the international political arena, when Europe follows the lead of the United States and imposes sanctions, I was more rooting for the countries of Latin America, I wanted them to win. Although I understand that it is wrong to mix sports and politics. He especially supported Argentina and Brazil. I was very worried about the team of Alejandro Sabella, because my favorite player is Lionel Messi. But, to my great regret, Germany won. What to do, it's a sport.
As for Russia, they lost. Many argue that they spend a lot of money on football, that it’s impossible to do this, we still don’t win. But you need to understand that a lot of money for football is not only money for players. Some of our players need to cut salaries. To be honest, I think they screwed up. Our, Russian footballers should reduce salaries. But you can not allocate less money for the development of football. This is a mass sport, football is played in every yard. Children take their cue from football players. In this sense, funding should not be reduced. Sometimes in the game something really works out, something doesn't work out. But you can't play like that for your team, for your country. They play well for their clubs. From there they can be kicked out, their salaries can be cut. And playing for the national team, they understand that they will be paid everything. I think that such an attitude is meanness. You need to control such players with a hard hand. As Stalin said: "Whoever cannot win gold in the world, he will go to mine it in the North."
- If you were offered to become a coach-motivator of the Russian national football team with the ability to influence the players not only with words, would you agree?
Motivator? Don't even know. You can't motivate by beating. You need to get to the brain. Of course, you can get through with your fists, but it’s better with a word. And to the brains, and to the hearts. I believe that the motivation in our team should be of a sincere and patriotic nature. The motivation is such that it will make you fight, fight, literally cling to the match with your teeth, like Suarez. So I shouldn't be the motivator.
Our football players Mamaev and Kokorin had a lot of fun in cool club Monte Carlo. And, having smelt 250 thousand euros, they again provoked a wave of popular hatred. The Russian anthem became the soundtrack of the bohat bacchanalia, which is symbolic.
For people who were forced to root for the proud Vikings, this turned out to be the last straw. Even kind Moraine freaked out and erupted in indignation on her FB. People want to ban this kind of football and punish the assholes.
Their attitude annoys me. After the failure with Wales, Mamaev posted a photo on Instagram with a completely indifferent caption:
Against the background of this picture, I recall another frame from the 2002 World Cup. He pulled me out of my summer vacation. I bought soda in tin cans, which depicted our football players - Mostovoy, Beschastnykh ... Remember the finale? Brazil-Germany. Oliver Kahn conceded two goals. The photo where he sits in collars has spread all over the world. How much despair was on his face! I think he was crying. And I wanted to cry with him, although I never rooted for german football. But such tears cost a lot. And a football player who fights for the country, for football, for the fans, is worth a lot.
I am not opposed to the Kokorins and Mamaevs earning millions of euros. The market itself dictates wages. Since the clubs pay them such crazy money, it means that they consider it logical. Another thing is that the players should not forget for whom they enter the field. Not for the sake of officials from the RFU or the Ministry of Sports, who report for the work done to the first person of the country. Not for the sake of top managers of oil and gas corporations pouring billions of people's dough into the most popular view sports on the planet. And for you and me. Those who are waiting for matches at the TV screens or go to stadiums. Without the end consumer, footballers are meaningless.
From time immemorial, professional sports in our country have been performing two tasks: entertaining and distracting from pressing problems. We are winning the Dutch - the electorate thinks how strong Rosseyushka has become, since we have gone over them like a skating rink. Loses with a bang to Wales - and there are thousands of dissatisfied comments. From the series: in our country, everything is a complete mess. Naturally, everything is not all right in football.
And since the national team has such an important mission, then the assholes kicking the ball should return to the ground. Do not cry and live in misery, no. And just fight on the field and be less impudent. And to become that team for which you want to fly to the other side of the globe, get sick, tear your throat and not sleep at night. And do not feel spat after that.
Now let's talk about football. As you know, I am rather indifferent to football, and I consider professional sport in its current form to be harmful and dangerous. Some kind of medieval barbarism - to watch how the crowd is entertained in the arena by a couple of dozen people who are faced with a choice: either become heroes or die. Of course, in modern world they do not die physically: in the worst case, they remain invalids without education and prospects. While you are just starting a career at 30, professional sportsman with a load of illnesses and injuries, he thinks how to build a life from scratch, when you don’t know how and nobody needs you. Units are knocked out. The rest are burned down so that you can talk about how to play, how to run, jump and win while drinking beer near the TV.
So that the sacrifice of the players was not in vain, let's talk about how to play football. I asked my good friend Sergei Kanashevich to tell me what the problem is and what to do about it all. Read and express your opinion. I heard that among my readers every second is a football expert!
“The last two days, the Runet has looked like a hornet’s nest, into which a village kid launched a stone from a slingshot. All, of course, because of the “failure” of the Russian national football team at the Euro. Varlamov yesterday wrote an emotional post about. Today we will continue the topic.
The standard accusation against our players from the fans is as follows: "These snickering millionaires don't know how and don't want to play football. We believe, we hope, we suffer, but they don't care".
Let's figure out how we should be now.
Firstly, no failure, of course, happened, but a quite expected event happened, demonstrating real level development of football in the country. Secondly, Russian teams play football not at all as badly as it might seem during the match with Wales. Moreover, I will say a blasphemous thing: they play football well. They just got out of the habit of full-fledged competition.
For some reason, it is customary for us to scold football players for abnormally high salaries and fees, although this is just a by-product of the system built by our sports functionaries. But it's not only that. There are cosmic salaries in decaying Europe, and in the USA, and in China, and in Turkey, and in India, and in the Arab countries. It's just that they get players of a different caliber there.
Modern football is the sport of professionals. Football players get paid a lot of money for risking their health every day on the field and in training. A very very big money is a common thing for top clubs or medium championships that need to attract superstars. What are superstars for? Ideally, to earn money from them.
When a real master comes to the club, albeit on a huge salary, the club's opportunities grow. With the help of a world-class football player, you can earn on the growth of stadium attendance, the sale of T-shirts with his name, the sale of television rights (if an adequate distribution system is in place) and on high results. Yes, yes, the budget of a normal club consists not only of oil and gas bubbles, but also of bonuses for winning the national championship, successful performance in the Champions League, and so on.
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Once again, this is ideal. Whether the club guessed with the purchase of such a player or not is a question for the management and the coach. Even the best of the best make mistakes. Not to mention the fact that in a number of countries (including ours) football as a business system simply does not work. The general opinion is that in Russia only the owner of CSKA Giner and the owner of Krasnodar Galitsky can make money on football (although it will take a long time to figure out the details).
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But there is one more important point, which applies equally to clubs and national teams. When there is a constant influx of superstars and just strong players into the championship, the level of competition inevitably grows. Young guys, who yesterday stared with their mouths open at the conditional Ronaldinho or Ibrahimovic on TV, today play with him in a pass in training. Or, on the contrary, they go out to defend against him for the opposing team. They look at him, learn and gradually understand that somewhere they can play just as well, somewhere they can stop him, and somewhere they can make a more appropriate decision than this very star.
It's all about competition.
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And what is happening with Russia? Yesterday and today, all experts, all famous coaches and the most respected players of the national team suddenly remembered that the main problem of our football is the limit on foreign players.
Vasily Berezutsky, defender of the Russian national team and CSKA:
It is necessary to raise young people, to change the approach to football. Today we tried, but everything is on the case. We don't have stars. Something needs to be done with Russian football. We need to leave for Europe. We do not benefit from the fact that we play in the Premier League, with a limit.
Roman Shirokov, midfielder of the Russian national team and CSKA:
It is definitely necessary to cancel the limit. But I don't think that all of our young players are directly in demand in Europe. They probably won't take everyone. To leave, you need to somehow show yourself on such forums as this one, or in the Champions League. But, unfortunately, not everything is so rosy.
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Stanislav Cherchesov, a likely candidate for the post of coach of the Russian national team:
I would like the limit on legionnaires to generally allow 11 foreigners. To Russian players went to serious foreign championships.
Vladislav Radimov, Main coach"Zenith-2":
Slutsky is not the problem, because he is the most successful coach in our country - he has won everything in Russia. An alternative to him, perhaps, can be found, but he led the team absolutely deservedly.<...>Remove this limit to hell! If this is not done, in two years we will get the same thing as today. Please, cry from the heart: please remove the limit on legionnaires! If we tighten the limit again, then in two years the national team can not even participate anywhere.
The notorious limit is when more than one cannot appear on the field and in the team’s application at the same time a certain amount foreign footballers. Now we have a formula "6 + 5", that is, out of 11 players on the field, a maximum of 6 can be foreigners, the rest must be citizens of the Russian Federation. Clubs are punished for exceeding the limit.
Hulk in Zenit, Promes in Spartak, Musa and Wernbloom in CSKA, Karadeniz in Rubin, Joaozinho and Kabor in Krasnodar, Navas and Azmun in Rostov - these are the people who have become the decoration of the Russian championship. But for competition to appear, there should be no prohibitions. Then there will be twice as many strong players. This means that the number of Russian children will also grow, who from a young age will begin to follow the leaders and work on themselves. Those who, for one reason or another, failed to break into the squad, will leave for the European championships to gain experience in the fight against monsters.
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The limit has been in effect for several years. Previously, it was a little more democratic ("7 + 4"), but the fruits - here they are, please. When state regulation comes to the sphere where the best must break through the crucible of competition, it turns out the performance of the Russian team at Euro 2016.
Young Russian footballers are not rushing to the strongest championships, they are fine at home. Why work off pennies in Portuguese League and rush to Real Madrid through the Benfica double, if you can play Dynamo somewhere for an impressive fee, knowing that you will still get into the squad, because there is simply no one to oust you? Why ruin your health English Premier League, where every day they hurt their legs and shove them with their elbows, if you can selflessly polish the bench in the conditional "Mordovia"?
Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation:
It is necessary to raise the level of the championship itself, it is necessary that the players leave to play abroad. Otherwise, the Welsh have three players, and you can't do anything with them. He out in the middle of the field beat ours - and that's it. We don't have such a player.
Now Mutko says that it would be nice if our players went to Europe... Well, cancel the limit! Athletes should not be brought up in greenhouse conditions. If Russian football players want to be pros and win the Euros, then they should take the competition not as a personal insult, but as an opportunity to constantly improve. So, they must be taught to compete from childhood.
So, the main problem of Russian football is the limit? But no! The main problem of our football is the officials who accepted this limit.
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Our sports functionaries are usually very old, and they sincerely yearn for the scoop. They want the factory teams to compete with each other in the championship, like Kassil had in the "Goalkeeper of the Republic". So that from the Yashins and Mondays it was possible to assemble an ideologically correct and all-conquering team.
But the days of amateur sports are over. Everyone - not only athletes, but also these very officials - want to earn money. Don't you think there's a contradiction here?"
