Ninth day after ... Victory

Anton Oresh in a column on the site of the "Daily Journal" expresses confidence that they do not know how to be happy. We decided to note the victory of hockey players at the World Cup. Hockey players, by the way, are well done. We played well. Worthy of awards and honors. Many citizens after the victory in the final spontaneously ran out into the streets. And since these festivities were “without hints”, the complaints of residents of the surrounding houses were not accepted, and 20 million were not stolen about landscaping.

But the sovereign comrades decided to celebrate the victory somehow more attempted and sipriotic. In principle, this idea is not new. The tradition of street parades of the Champions was born behind the ocean, where buses with teams pass through the central streets of their native cities, and then the athletes themselves are sure to be accepted in the White House. And it’s funny that with the emphasized emphasizing our self (in hockey, this is especially elaborate in all the splendor of our complexes) “new folk tradition” was written off among the Americans ... but with our specifics.

For some reason, the celebrations were appointed on the ninth (!) The day after the victory. Which is also strange for the reason that the delight in the masses by that time has long subsided. Our country is not athletic and not fan. And the delight of victories is in many ways on the basis of great power. That is, they rejoiced not so much in the victory in hockey as the fact that Russia won something. But such emotions, as practice has shown, settle faster than nine days.

In addition, for some reason, the celebrations were appointed to the middle of the working day. So it turned out that a bus with magnificent champions, a valuable cup, but with the complete absence of jubilant crowds, sailed along the blocked Tverskaya. The people along the sidewalk stood, of course, but liquidly, and on the street it was possible not only to pass, but also to run. If, of course, you did not get into the police cordon. And there were a lot of police. And Cordon. What is the holiday without a cordon?

What a holiday without a VIP tribune for “cones” on Manezhnaya, to which the champion bus drove up. What a holiday without a stupid patriotic concert. Despite the fact that they promised a meeting of champions with children and young hockey players. Which were never allowed to the champions. Like ordinary fans.

However, the "simple fan" in the country, as you know, is one. And the national team eventually arrived. She listened to the attendant’s attendant, I gave a shirt, someone handed Putin a gold medal (!), Which, thank God, was enough not to accept the mind. In general, everything was pompous, tasteless, clumsy, susal-pathos. And on a very strange date.

And the explanation is simple. Previously, he did not have holes in the graph. So it’s not scary, which is ridiculous and not on time. But the chief coach of Russia was convenient.

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Alexander Gorbunov, on the website of the Sport Day after Day, believes that the match with Uruguay, the team, without a doubt, is not in a relaxed state, which is usually inherent in the money to make money, but on the move, since it has an important qualifying meeting for the World Cup, showed that the Russian national team is currently permissible.

These problems are football in nature, they are mainly related to the training process - both on the field and in the tactical room - and there probably still be time to eliminate them.

Maximum age

The youngest in the starting lineup for the match with Uruguay was 28 -year -old Igor Denisov. 28 Now Zhirkov and Bognyak, but 29 will be fulfilled this year. The average age of the Russian team goes off scale: 30.6 - the starting lineup in the game with Uruguayans. At the same time, Sharonov (almost 36 years), Semshov (34), Kerzhakov (30 will be this year) and Pavlyuchenko remained in the reserve (31 will celebrate in six months).

And the point is not even that the average age is so high (it may turn out that the Russian team will become the most age -related euro), but that the rate on the same football players, which continued for years, has completely nullified the concept of “age -related balance”. No one would have noticed for the first time, not against those who are 30 or 30, but very bad, in my opinion, when in the team - in this case, I talk about the starting lineup, about the skeleton - there are no players aged 24 to 28 years.

However, if you look at the application list, there are, but try to imagine the simultaneous appearance in the starting lineup of Kirill Nababkin (almost 26 years), Vladimir Granat, Denis Glushakov and Dmitry Kombarov (25) and Alexander Kokorin (21). This can happen, I believe, only in the case of injuries (do not bring Lord!) Anyukov, Berezutsky and Ignashevich (in this case, the pair of central defenders will consist of grenade and Sharonov), Denisov, Zhirkov and Kerzhakov.

In total, all the players declared at Euro -12 held (taking into account the meeting with Uruguay) 717 matches for the national team. Those who are 28 years old and above (including the most experienced Igor Akinfeev) played in 686 meetings, the rest - at 31 (moreover, Alan Dzagoev spent 18 matches from this group).

If Glushakov was played to some extent in the composition of the current team, then Nababkin, grenades, combarry and Kokorin are actual newcomers in it, and the lawyer, of course, is not an enemy to himself in the absence of force majeure circumstances to set so many debutants in the starting lineup.

The middle zone

The greatest fears at the moment causes, in my opinion, the game of the Russian team in the central defense zone. The injury of Vasily Berezutsky caused a serious damage to reliability in the actions of two central defenders. In a couple to Ignashevich, the lawyer is trying on Alexei Berezutsky and Roman Sharonov now. The first does not have so much experience in the game in this position, the second did not perform a thousand years as part of the national team. Both players are selfless, tough, but this is not enough for both of them, since both have difficulties with starting speed and ahead of the game, which can lead to undesirable fouls near the penalty area.

Everything would be fine, but the game of midfielders of the Russian team immediately before the central defenders is built in such a way that the only actual football player with good defensive skills is Denisov. With all due respect to Shirokov and Denisov (according to the match with Uruguay), skilled, technical players, they still make the main emphasis on attacking actions, and in defensive ones they do not succeed.

Probably, we can still say that the Russian team plays with three supporting midfielders. With transformations, of course, depending on the account and behavior of the opponent. If we proceed from this assumption, then, in my opinion, it is worth recognizing that there are not two (a total of a total of one and a half-Denisov plus Shirokov and Zyryanov a little.

The left flank

In the match with Uruguay, the game of the national team on the left flank left several questions.

Why, in particular, Zhirkov is still used in the position of the left defender? For a long time, in my opinion, it is clear to everyone that this footballer is a player of the middle of the field, a player, I must say, universal, skillfully acting both on the left flank (a number of matches for “Anji” once again confirmed this) and in the center. Justifying the appearance of Zhirkov in the place of the left defender, they usually refer to two points. No, they say, in Russia, qualified left -wing defenders are first, and, secondly, if Girkov is transferred to the left flank to the central zone, he will “support” Arshavin, and he will be forced to look for other zones.

There are no qualified left -wing defenders for only one reason - they are not engaged in the national team, remembering that there are fats, their searches. As for Arshavin, then under Zhirko on the left flank of midfield to the captain of the national team, it is not so difficult to find another place in which he could demonstrate everything he can.

With the scheme that the lawyer uses for the most part, the bunch of fats - Arshavin looks somewhat one -sided, with roll to the attack, since in defensive actions Arshavin is not an assistant. This creates certain difficulties at the time of the attacks of rivals. Even the active game of one of the three supporting midfielders does not always save (in the match with Uruguay, Zyryanov was in this zone).

Spaces are noticeable in command actions. First of all, that is related to command speeds. At the speed of individual, one of the players has no problems (Denisov, Izmailov, Anyukov ...), someone has (Zhirkov, Zyryanov, Arshavin ...), and there are no coordinated command speeds. This affects, first of all, at the level of transition from one game stage to another and on the quality of positional attacks.

It is noticeable that a small number of players take part in collective actions (it is especially noticeable by attack), at the same time in these promotions involved.

Handsome Dick

"Dick is handsome!" - Sergey Fursenko praised after the match Russia - Uruguay Dick a lawyer, his employee hired, hired, two years ago and hoped that the contract with him will be extended to Euro -12. But Fursenko pointed out to his handsome a month ago in his place, saying that we were talking about a new agreement only after the continent championship, depending on the results shown on it.

The President of the RFU, who continues to play the role of the partisan and answers directly the questions, even does not always understand phrases, is still silent when it comes to who will be the next "handsome" as the head coach of the national team. It seems that in the current situation, Fursenko has only the right of an advisory voice. The successor of the lawyer will certainly put himself in relations with the continuing to lead the RFU by the person in such a way that he will call him “handsome” - for the most part on the sidelines - players who score goals, goalkeepers, reflecting the blows from the “point” and a personal driver who had managed to deliver the chef to the airport on time.

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Blogger "Five-Two Two" on the Sports website. RU ironically represents a picture of the final formation of the composition of the Russian football team.

A sleepless night at the headquarters of the Russian national team was saturated with stress. The final decision on the composition on Euro 2012 was developed, but Dick the lawyer continued to sit in thought, tapping his fingers on the table.

- Well, what are you, Dick, really? - Borodyuk shrugged. -It seems that everyone weighed, discussed ... Well, what are you, you are afraid of injuries with Uruguayans or force majeure, like with Shishkin? So you can't keep it from everything?

“That's the point, Sasha,” the Dutchman answered. - You see, there are no trifles in tournaments such as the euro. Everything should be in place. What leg to get up, how to get on the bus, what is before which game is for breakfast ...

“So we have already discussed it,” Van Lingen shook his head, “and even decided that Ozdoev was better than Dziuba when seedlings.” That is why we send Dziubu, but we leave Ozdoyev ...

“No,” the head coach sighed, “something is still missing.” Some little things, insignificant details, inconspicuous. Which, perhaps, will not be visible at the tournament, but which will become a decisive circumstance in the eyes of a football fortune ...

- Maybe write "Russia - The Best" by bus? - Borodyuk suggested, but the little general only dismissed. His gaze fell onto the TV screen, on which peppy old women in folk costumes famously annealed in the light of laser rays.

- Who is this? The lawyer asked melancholy.

- Ah, this ... these are "Buranovsky grandmothers", they were sent to Eurovision for the sake of jokes from Russia. So you figure out, Dick, they went to the final! - Borodyuk answered with a laugh.

“Grandmothers for the sake of jokes ... in the final ... grandmothers, grandmas ... went to the final,” the head coach repeated thoughtfully. Suddenly his eyes sparkled.

- Understood! Here it is, the missing inconspicuous link in success. Grandmas!

“Dick, so we agreed on the budget,” Van Lingen said in surprise.

- What does the money have to do with it? - the lawyer was indignant, - you didn’t grasp? Grandmas for jokes - in the finale! Cross out Ozdoev, and Nababkin urgently in the application!

The little general sighed in relief. The last link was found.

He no longer doubted that Russia will play in the final.