Translated material
The code must be respected
The RFU is going to live according to the new laws
The President of the Russian Football Union, Sergei Fursenko, has become incredibly active in recent days. In the executive committee of the organization entrusted to him, he nominated Deputy Prime Ministers Viktor Zubkov and Sergei Ivanov, Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom OJSC Alexei Miller and Head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin. Now the meetings of the RFU executive committee in the House of Football under the leadership of Sergei Fursenko will be no less representative than government meetings. And, it is possible that the first thing the renewed executive committee will do is adopt the code of honor of Russian football, recently drawn up by the head of the RFU. The developed document, similar to the pioneer oath, has 12 points. Almost all of them were violated during the next round of the national championship.The first paragraph of the document states that a player, coach, referee, fan, governor, owner, member of the executive committee, etc. “must understand the importance of football as a developing, improving human personality sports game.” It was not possible to thoroughly check, but there seemed to be no problems with this. But with the second paragraph, where it states “knows and accepts the laws and rules of Fair Play,” problems arose again. The head coach of Alania, after the defeat from CSKA (1:3), threatened to watch the episode in which a penalty was awarded against his team. “Today, when in front of 30 thousand fans the score became 1:2 and some kind of intrigue appeared, the referee simply removed it,” said the coach of the Vladikavkaz team. Every second coach in any round will be ready to repeat similar words.
In Khimki, where Dynamo hosted Tom, the head coach of the “blue and white” Andrei Kobelev probably had questions for his players on point 3 (“realizes responsibility to the country, city, team, family for his work, level of dedication, dedication to the most beautiful and intelligent game"). Dynamo once again played an inexpressive goalless draw, and Kobelev hinted that he was dissatisfied with the performance of the team's main acquisition, forward Andrei Voronin.
Violation of point 4 (“respects the opponent, wins nobly, suffers defeat with dignity”) could, if desired, be found in all stadiums. And position 5 (“honors the traditions of his country, studies the culture of his people, observes the laws of hospitality in relation to an opponent, a representative of a different culture and country, a fan from another city”), for example, was maliciously violated in Vladikavkaz - by CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev with the stands launched various objects, and one of them flew to the addressee.
It was not possible to check the fulfillment of point 6 (“loves his family, city, team, remembers his first mentor, teacher, school”) in such a short time. But, for example, Zenit head coach Luciano Spalletti, an Italian by nationality, managed to notice that the fans’ attitude towards one player of his team was clearly not indifferent. Speaking about the atmosphere at the Petrovsky Stadium, Spalletti noted after the match with Lokomotiv: “The players feel truly at home here. But the warmth of home extends to ten. Bystrov always plays away."
“Bystrov away” was productive. Not paying attention to the traditional shouts from the stands addressed to him, the Zenit midfielder often found himself in striking positions and in the end became the author of the only goal in the match. Having missed him, Lokomotiv was never able to establish a creative game, and even Semin’s team was not enough for the final pileup.
Point 7 (“complies with traditional Russian laws of community: mutual assistance, support, compassion, purity of thoughts and actions”) turned out to be unclaimed. It turned out to be inconvenient with the laws. The other day, Lokomotiv re-issued Russian citizenship to its newcomer Alexander Aliyev, which he had previously refused when receiving a Ukrainian passport. Dual citizenship is not allowed by both Russian and Ukrainian laws, and now the Ukrainian national team is seriously considering refusing the services of the midfielder.
The only thing that was observed was point 8 (“knows and respects the history of Russian football, participates in charity events, pays attention to football veterans”). During the break of the match, the Dynamo club congratulated the glorious club defender Vladimir Kesarev on his 80th birthday. At the same time, paragraph 9 (“rejects any manifestation of rudeness, rudeness, verbal hooliganism on the football field and beyond, strictly monitors compliance with speech norms”) was violated by everyone and willingly. For example, Spartak head coach Valery Karpin had some strong words for the first half of the match with Terek, and it’s good that his players pulled themselves together and after the break, increasing their speed, snatched victory.
Point 10 (“cooperates with the media, shows a sense of tact and respect for the work of a journalist”) some football players habitually ignored. And a violation of Article 11 (“disdains and denies dishonest methods of competition: match-fixing, bribery of judges, the use of intimidation methods against the judge and opponent, the use of prohibited drugs”), even if it took place, no one will prove anything. By the way, most likely now the former President of Chechnya Alu Alkhanov will monitor compliance with this clause. It is he who Sergei Fursenko proposes to appoint as the head of the ethics commission, which should look at how the norms of the code work.
The last paragraph 12 states: “In matches, the Russian team demonstrates high spirit, patriotism, and full dedication; deserves to bear the title of citizen of a great country and believes in victories.” But the chance to check its implementation will only present itself in six months: the Russian national team, which never received a new head coach and had not fully calculated the old one, for some reason refused even friendly matches for this period.
Results of the 5th round matches. "Siberia" - "Anzhi" - 2:4 (Medvedev 58, Astafiev 60 - Tsoraev 21, 90, Golenda 34, 47) , "Zenit" - "Lokomotiv" - 1:0 (Bystrov 54) , "Alania" - CSKA - 1:3 (Kuznetsov 57 - Guilherme 6, Krasic 45, Dzagoev 70 from pen.) , "Wings of the Soviets" - "Saturn" - 2:1 (Bober 10, Djordjevic 80 - - Nemov 85) , "Spartak" - "Terek" - 2:1 (Ferreira 59 own goal, Welliton 88 - Asildarov 15) , "Dynamo" - "Tom" - 0:0, "Rostov" - "Amkar" - 2:1 (Akhmetovich 14, Anzhelkovich 84 - Sokolov 51) .
Russian Championship
| 1. "Spartak" N | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9--3 | 10 |
| 2. CSKA | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6--2 | 10 |
| 3. Zenit | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5--2 | 10 |
| 4. "Ruby" | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3--0 | 8 |
| 5. Spartak M | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7--6 | 8 |
| 6. "Terek" | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6--3 | 8 |
| 7. "Tom" | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7--5 | 8 |
| 8. Anji | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7--5 | 7 |
| 9. "Amkar" | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5--4 | 7 |
| 10. "Rostov" | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6--9 | 7 |
| 11. "Lokomotiv" | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7--7 | 6 |
| 12. Dynamo | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4--5 | 5 |
| 13. “Wings of the Soviets” | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4--10 | 3 |
| 14. "Saturn" | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3--5 | 3 |
| 15. "Alania" | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3--8 | 2 |
| 16. "Siberia" | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4--12 | 1 |