Football is not bad from the point of view of studying geography. What kind of Wales? Many Russians, most likely, did not suspect about its existence. Now come to the political map of the world and try to find a territorial entity, barely visible to her naked eye. Fifty years of teams of the USSR and Russia has not lost the team Wales. Used to play in a draw, more likely to win. At the European championship 2016. – 0:3, the last place in the group and perhaps the most nondescript game among all participants of the tournament. Yes, it was 1:7 from Portugal, 1:4 from the Spanish giants of world football, but the team still was considered a good medium. After the defeat of Wales what next? The fight against San Marino and Liechtenstein?
On the basis of performance of the Russian team at the European championship left many thousands of comments. Many thousands of outraged and insulting remarks, which we have bad players, worthless coach. Why should it be otherwise? Why is a country that in the rankings of economic indicators, political freedoms, health of the nation. and is located in the second hundred must claim a leading position in a particular football? The last place in the final stage of the European championship is the real level of our team. No need to throw in coaches and players the stones, they play as best they can.
Yes, in our team there are no “stars”, the leader of the level of the Slovak hansika or Welshman Bale. But let’s look on the Russian political Olympus. Over two decades in the country there was not a single political figure. “Eternal” Zyuganov and Zhirinovsky are the same “eternal” Berezutski and Ignashevich on the football field. Well, there is no other!
Yes, no player of team Russia does not have any dribbling, not able to pass that two or three players, but even fear of confrontation, and never dares to beat one to one. So, there are some other advantages, for which children are paid millions in royalties. Some pop singers, for example, no voice, no hearing, and their merit were awarded medals. Why in a country where state awards received by the biker the Surgeon for “Patriotic education of youth” or 25-year-old son of the head of Rosneft for “many years of conscientious work”, blamed the football player only because he is not technical and he walks across the field on foot, in spite of their millions?
Yes, the Russian team lacks athletes, able to give sharp and accurate transmission. Why should they should be able to do it? If we have service housing erected from debris; on roads whose quality is controlled by all and Sundry, to pass in silence is impossible; taken by deputies to the laws, it seems, can live only the deputies themselves; the milk producers mixed with chalk, soda, acid and gypsum… we Will wait, when the team will have a naturalized “German settlement”, and the best – Brazilian. When I accidentally turned the stream from the European championship of Futsal, in which Russia was now the second, could not understand why the people, whose appearance and names are not even remotely remind Russian. It’s a way to win medals not to invest in children’s sports, and ready to buy foreigners.
Yes, none of the Russian players, the shots don’t work both strong and accurate. Either the ball whizzes well over the crossbar, or plops down in the arms of the goalkeeper. But otherwise, if all the time: filled at the pump increasingly expensive gasoline at all of falling oil prices – the car stalls; rusty water from pipes running everywhere, even in the home of the President; salary arrears reached 4bn.RUB. a “vanguard” talks about the possibility of introducing a tax on” social parasitism”; the rapidly growing minimum wage did not catch up diminishing the subsistence minimum; in the far East a free hectare of land, but without the infrastructure and of the slightest prospects for survival – crazy or what?
Do not you think that in current circumstances it would be strange to watch the spectacular victory of the Russian team. It would be somehow unpatriotic, not like everyone else.
