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Daily magazine: A-Capello
I continue to insist on a repeated thesis that sport is a concentrated illustration of our life. Let and specific. Well, here is the story of Fabio Capello - is she talking about football? She is about us and our country with you.
The Russian team plays the devil knows how. This is its only stable quality. In our national team there is not a single world -class football player. Several guys are drawn to the European level, but in total this is the average team of medium -sized performers, which gives the same average quality the product. However, we require this team of conquering the highest heights. Why? Just because it is our team. And our team should be the first. Because Russia. We so want, we decided so. And very at one time they were offended when the football player Arshavin responded to the claims of a walking deputy with gold, one hundred percent correct words, they say, "your expectations are your problems."
And for our average team of average players, not just a coach is hired, but a legend man. What the hell is we legend, if there is no one to train him? If you put the “viburnum” of Sebastian Vettel behind the wheel, “Kalina” will still not go like “Mercedes”. But we did not just hire the famous coach, we put him a fantastic size salary.
However, frankly, Fabio Capello had already entered the circulation. He went into circulation even before he accepted our team. He would agree to work here, I think, and a million in three. But ours generously laid him either eight, or nine. According to our good tradition, the salary of the Russian national team coach is a secret. As a secret, who and from which sources finances it. And it is not even clear who signed these papers there.
At that moment, in the summer of 2012, there was not only a coach at the national team, but also the president of the RFU. The coach was looking for Minister Mutko. Somewhere he found sources of financing a fabulous contract that made Capello either the most highly paid coach in the world, or in the first three. But, one way or another, obviously overestimated in the literal sense of the word.
Then the national team without much brilliance passed the selection for the World Cup, where Portugal was its only serious rival. We really went around Portugal, although, as time showed, this team is much stronger by names than in practice. Russia played boring already then. But the euphoria from the first in 12 years of hiding on the “Mir” swept over officials, and, without waiting for the world championship itself, the Capello contract was extended to the 2018 World Cup, which will be held in Russia. This is a record in our history contract for duration. And by the amount of the salary of the coach. And most importantly - according to the amount of the penalty for the breakdown of the contract. Simply put, it is impossible to break the contract-unless you have a desire to pay a ten to four million euros to the coach at a time.
Capello is already under seventy. At this age, people can look great, be energetic, but, as a rule, they no longer change. And they do not have any new ideas. The nasty features of character are only aggravated. And the character traits of Fabio Capello and in their young years were nasty. And with this elderly coach, we sign a record for the amount and duration of an indistinguishable contract. By which today we have not paid him a salary for five months!
With such a game and the results that everyone and passionately wish to dismiss Capello. But then you have to pay compensation. And what are the compensation, if we simply are not able to pay salaries!
They blame the non -payment of the employer, that is, the President of the RFU Nikolai Tolstoy. This is logical. But it is logical in the normal state of things. And our country - it has a special logic and the state of things traditionally upside down. Tolstoy had nothing to do with the hiring of Capello - the Tolstoy at that moment had not even chosen.
Tolstoy is reproached for the fact that the RFU in debt and in loans, as in boys and silk. Mutko says that with him the treasury of the Union was breaking from banknotes. And that is true. But between Mutko and the Tolstoy RFU, another gentleman - Fursenko led. Fursenko is ... Putin, “Lake” ... Well, you understand. And he led Fursenko so that it was with him that the profitable organization was overgrown with debts and loans, as the Christmas tree was overgrown with toys in the New Year. The bloated states, some kind of sorcerers and numerologists literally-who just did not work for the extremely weak president and extremely strange person Fursenko and what kind of bizarre full-time units with wonderful salaries in the RFU did not appear.
Tolstoy received a disorganized structure, which should everyone around. And on the balance sheet is a gigantic contract of the coach, whom he did not even hire. They say that Tolstoy was at least not happy to extend the contract with Capello for five years, without waiting for the results of at least the first major tournament. But the Tolstoy, as I understand it, did not particularly ask. But they ask today. Having imposed an unnecessary employee to him for unusual money, the payment of which was guaranteed and which actually do not pay. Excurative that since the signature on behalf of the RFU is under the contract, let the RFU be removed.
The situation became even more stupid in these months, until the salary was paid. The salary in the euro! And over the reporting period, the euro spent almost one and a half times. The current dollar is more expensive than the then euro. The current euro is more expensive than the then pound. The current debt in five months is like the previous pay of months in seven to eight!
Tolstoy calls to spend money received from FIFA for participation in the World Championships on debt. Like, the national team earned them, and spend them on the national team. But having spent everything on debt repayment, the RFU will not be able to finance, apparently, no other activity.
And most importantly, having paid with debts and without the sources of stable budget replenishment, in a month the union will again have nothing to pay an ill -fated gloomy Italian. And tell me now that this is a story about football ...