After Capello

Fabio Capello leaves the Russian football team

The Russian Football Union officially announced the termination of the contract with the head coach of the Russian national team Fabio Capello. This was reported on the official website of the organization .

The RFU announced that "sincerely thanks Fabio Capello for the work done as the head coach and wishes him success in further professional activity." "Fabio Capello, in turn, is grateful to the RFU for the help and support that he felt throughout the years of work. He is also grateful to the players for their collaboration, and the fans - for the sincere support of the national team," the message said.

You can say, it happened. The RFU - and in fact, certain much higher instances - a strong -willed decision ceased a rather awkward combination with the participation of an Italian specialist. You can discuss as much as you like, in the name of which it was done, but the fact remains - Capello's career in Russian football has come to an end.

First of all, it is worth recalling that Capello in world football is known for the most part as a club coach. In his club coaching work in 16 seasons, he won the country's champion 7 times. This is amazing, but in every country where Capello coined any club, he became the winner of the national championship. It was in Italy - with Milan, Roma and Juventus, as well as in Spain - with Real Madrid. Capello of the Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup won, admitted the best coach of the year in Italy. That is, he has enough club achievements.

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But there are several circumstances that cause some doubts about his wonderful career. First of all, his teams very rarely played bright, attacking and spectacular football. He used to be fired, despite the won championship, because the game, say, Real Madrid looked rather pale. And the second circumstance - Capello never showed himself as a bright coach at the level of prefabricated. Actually, he led only two national teams-England and Russia. From the first he left the scandal, breaking the contract after the football federation of England deprived John Terry of the Captain's bandage, while Capello believed that this could not be done without his knowledge. After that, he accepted the proposal of the Russian football union and headed the Russian team.

With her, he also did not gain any special success. Yes, the Russians under his leadership were able to reach the final part of the World Cup - but it would be better if they did not do it! The Russian team in 2014 in Brazil spoke frankly weakly, if not a failure , could not get out of the far from the strongest group and ingloriously left the mundial. But the focus was that Capello was traveling to this tournament with an already signed new contract, according to which he was supposed to head the Russian team to the 2018 World Cup ! The then President of the RFU, Nikolai Tolstoy, did not want to sign the contract quite reasonably, and was right - in the end, it was worth doing this after the World Cup, according to its results. But the Tolstoye twisted their hands, promised to find money (the RFU did not have such an amount), and in the end, Capello could feel calmly, regardless of the results of the game of his team.

But during the year after Brazil, the Russian team played worse and worse. The started chapel of the generation of generations led to big problems in the qualifying group of the European Championship of 2016, from which the successor of Capello is now by hook and by crook to get out. At the same time, the Russian team has not shown high -quality football for a long time , and at one time it seemed that it would not be possible to eliminate the catastrophic position - after all, the penalty, which was due to Capello in the event of a boat break of the contract, seemed completely unbearable for the RFU.

Fabio Capello (left) and Vice President of the RFU Nikita Simonyan

But in Russia, such problems have long been learned to solve, and now Don Fabio persuaded - the contract was torn, the penalty was paid (probably in a smaller amount than it could, but also considerable), and now Capello can relax, and the RFU - is restless to look for a replacement for the Italian master. The amount of Capello compensation for the early termination of the contract is about 930 million rubles . And in total, according to the calculations of one of the largest sports newspapers in Russia , he earned about 40 million euros! I somehow don’t want to comment on such numbers-it’s just unpleasant ...

There are stubborn rumors that the mentor of CSKA Leonid Slutsky (without interruption from work in the army club), who has just fired from Dynamo, Stanislav Cherchesov, or someone else, can lead the Russian national team. Now it is important to think carefully why it was needed financially and meaningless in relation to the football scam - you won’t say otherwise! - With the renewal of the contract with Capello on the eve of the World Cup. Each time you believe that such madness will not be repeated. But each time, Russian football has to heroically overcome the obstacles that he himself erects for himself.

Capello in Russia, after the unsuccessful world championship, became only a toy in the hands of mysterious functionaries, who with its help replaced Nikolai Tolstoy from the RFU . But isn't the price great? The national team is left in a critical situation, it remains to be hoped that for Russian football it is, in general, a familiar state.

And one more thing: few people now understand that the main question of Russian football is not at all the presence or absence of a class coach of the national team, whether it be Capello or someone else. The problem is that the structure of Russian football itself does not contribute to its development, because it is not aimed at a long and painstaking reproduction of talented players. The limit on legionnaires adopted by the RFU contributes to the fact that the very fact of Russian citizenship will guarantee a Russian football player a place in the composition, and this is the right road to decline, the lack of professional growth, if you want, football stagnation. And no, at least seven spans in the forehead, the coach will not pull out football Russia out of the swamp, in which she drives herself - in fact completely independently ...