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In that distant summer night on 21 June 2008, the city was shaking until morning. Strangers hugged each other, shouting “Russia, forward!”, waving tricolors, launched firecrackers, and even the Russian-speaking segment were United in their rejoicing: our did the Dutch themselves! Long live our national team and its coach, the Dutchman Guus Hiddink. In the weeks that followed the name of the Dutch coach has even given to babies,
and no one cared that the Netherlands is a NATO member and there what the hell do sexual minorities.
As well as anybody in a head did not come first to inquire met on the street in a joyful night of a man whose Crimea, and only then congratulate him on his long-awaited, alas, for our team breakthrough.
The current Euro is played simultaneously in multiple parallel universes, and in football many of them have only indirect relevance.
Texture yet is this: our team stands not brilliant (yet we played two games: a draw against England and lost to Slovakia 1:2), while our fans have had to fight with the British, for which, in case of repetition of the incident, the Russian team disqualifiziert.
But how different these simple, seemingly, the events are perceived in different segments, depending on political views.
In Ukrainian social networks special personal Board of Vladimir Putin on Euro imports of Russian armed militants who need to arrange a mass brawl and genocide. For this, Russia will respond with new sanctions.
In moderately-Patriotic social networks our fans, as always, are victims of heinous provocation and only defended by the British committed atrocities outside the field (in the words of the great Dmitry Kiselev — “Englishwoman shits”),
while on the field, our team has again become the victim of lawn, judges, stadium, weather and ball.
In the ultra-Patriotic networks our guys came to defend the country from all sorts of garapati and generally remind them what it’s like to be a real man. Well, that seemingly is not required to send troops.
In a moderately liberal social networks to discuss what level of training the team has fallen and can’t all be blamed on the pitch, the ball and the referees, and the fans need to behave decently. In the end, the image of the host country of world Cup 18. In the ultra-social networks wish the national team the defeat, as it can have a negative impact on Putin’s rating, and the behavior of fans is because the behavior of the children of the guard or sitting, other categories in our country and no.
For completeness, in case our current March on the Euro on the field will not turn in the arc (which I want), representatives of the opposing camps must submit each other to court because someone is not hurts so much or not loud enough on Twitter singing the national anthem.
The patriots will accuse liberals that they are not well rooted for the team or, on the contrary, rooting for the national team and thereby put a curse on her,
the liberals will accuse the patriots that the country has no money for a good foreign specialists. The team will blame everyone but yourself. Maybe I’ll change the coach.
In recent years, it does not matter already what is really going on and what we’re playing: football, soccer, Rugby, chess or Darts. Each of the segments depending on their own views perceives reality exclusively through its paradigm: the ultra will not have the idea that our fans are not started first, ultrapatriot — what is happening — not part of a well-drafted NATO’s plan to humiliate Russia.
Young Russian columnist residing in Washington, do not write in social networks, “Okay, for a week hammering on the differences, our cheer”, and a veteran of the Pro-Kremlin sites will not devote a column to what the fans-the ultras now provide a very bad service.
From 2008 until 2016, it’s only been eight years old, one Euro championship, but the world in which and for which they play, has shrunk to a series of two-dimensional corridors, totally predictable and also boring.
It is not clear another.
If suddenly, our team did not show the will and in the end will not leave the group and go home, usually Willy-nilly start rooting for another team. Previously it was chosen just on the basis of purely personal sympathies (my friends popular were always Germany and England, many of the girls are rooting for Portugal because Cristiano Ronaldo is cute, for whatever team he played). If now the choice will have to do based on the rules of a closed two-dimensional space, what would it be?
Is it possible to ultrapatriot will be rooting for Germany against England? Because they are the same for the sanctions. Can the ultra be rooting against Ukrainians?
Assuming a two-dimensional corridors and different worlds in which misunderstanding is played one championship, the ultra-patriots may choose Ireland as a non-NATO member. Moderate should be pretty Switzerland with its neutrality. Liberals — the leading countries of the unit.
And actually really want to see football is still made now for all of us it is the right thing.
To the quarterfinals, and the semifinals and in the finals we are all together cheered for our team. Well, if the miracle did not happen — for the love of the game, the will to win but at least nice players, but not only geopolitical considerations, divided into a conspiracy theory in a single world. And together with those who cheer for football, not for his own concept of world order.
