Fifth title "Zenit"

"Zenit" from St. Petersburg for the fourth time won the title of champion of the country

The Russian football calendar presented a surprise to the fans: almost at the same time the fate of the two main trophies of Russian football is decided - the champion of the country is determined, the owner of the Russian Cup will be known in the next Thursday, when Lokomotiv and Kuban will converge in Astrakhan.

Zenit for the fifth time in his history won the title of champion of the country in football. Now many sports analysts are scrupulously determine and calculate the factors that allowed the St. Petersburg football club to support the sport of the Russian Northern capital - following the hockey SKA who won the Gagarin Cup . They talk about the unconditional talent of the Portuguese coach Andre Villasha-Boisha. About the leadership of the Brazilian striker Hulk, the record holder in the amount that Zenit "dumped" for him at one time. About the confident game "Zenith" with direct competitors (only two points are lost in matches with them). About the resolved problems in the defense line. On the eradication from the team of "squabbles" - Shirokov (in "Krasnodar"), Denisov (in "Dynamo"), Kerzhakov and Arshavin (they are in an arc). Even the arrival in the team next season, known for his difficult character of the Spartak striker Artem Dziuba, is now being considered as an unconditional achievement of Zenith, although it is not yet clear whether the forward will be able to play in the championship as he, of course, can.

The plans of Zenit for next year are also clear. The championship in the Russian championship in Zenit has not been perceived for a long time as a fairly high goal. This season, many said that the main goal is to win in the European Cup - at first La League of the Champions even waved, and after departure from it, Zenit was seriously considered a potential favorite in the Europa League. The reality slightly remembered the ambitions of the St. Petersburg: the “Seville” entered the Europa League , just and that knocked out “Zenith” from the tournament. “Seville” won this tournament last year under the leadership of Unai Emery, “Coaching”, as one of the Russian players contemptuously called him at a time when the Spaniard was coincided with the Moscow “Spartak”. And the second finalist of the Europa League became - as if in a mockery of Zenit and all Russian football - the Ukrainian club "Dnipro" from Dnepropetrovsk. Of course, Zenit is obliged to consider a priority victory for himself in the Europa League, because, even having won a place in the Champions League, in St. Petersburg they cannot but understand the futility of hopes for victory in the main European competition. But while completely different favorites will fight for the Europa League.

This season, many said that the main goal is to win in the European Cup - at first La Liga Champions even waved, and after departure from it, Zenit was seriously considered a potential favorite in the Europa League

Studying the roots of the Victory of Zenit in the RFPL championship, one of those that belongs to the main Russian corporation - Gazprom cannot be called one of the fact that Zenit. This is not bad and not good. The question is in the methods. "Pouring money" of any specific football problem , of course, allows Zenit to be in the leaders. But, frankly, this local and very effective way is unlikely to benefit Russian football, even if it lies in the “trend” of the world's football. The rapid fall in the level of the game of the Russian national team, of course, is far from last to be connected with the Italian coach Fabio Capello. But it not only depends on the coaching miscalculations - it is largely due to the fact that cool players in the Russian championship are becoming less and less. Are there any guilt of the personnel policy of Zenit? This is a very difficult question: any football club solves local problems, and if the club is rich, it certainly prefers to buy a strong player from abroad to achieve a quick result and will not invest in the development of a young, albeit promising Russian football player, not being confident in his football fate.

“Having increased the degree of the conversation, we note that the current line of attack, say,“ Barcelona ”is almost the strongest in the world! - Not at all Spanish or even Catalan. It is Brazilian Neymar, Argentine Messi and Uruguayan Suarez. It is clear that this is not a plus for the Spanish national team. But, firstly, in Barcelona many future football talents are brought up, and secondly, Bars and such teams earn enough game enough to invest in one and other directions of their development: in legionnaires and young Spanish players. “Zenith” loses against the backdrop of the Grands of world football: he has, of course, his own football school, but in the main composition of the club there are practically no students.

In other words, Zenit, like many other Russian clubs, have to rush between two statuses: a full participant in a large football show and a personnel supplier to the Russian team. The show from Russian football turns out to be mediocre, they don’t even want to buy it on television because of a low rating. I don’t want to talk about the level of the Russian national team. What to do to clubs, how to get out of such a difficult situation? Alas, neither the president of the Russian Football Union Nikolai Tolstykh, whose chair under it, has now swayed , nor the Russian football Premier League, does not know the answer to this question. Her actions, judging by the actions of the most powerful presidents of clubs, for example, the head of Gazprom and Zenit, Alexei Miller, gravitate towards financial methods for solving all problems. He says that he “knows how it should,” Valery Gazzaev, a player and coach known at one time, but since the Vladikavkaz “Alania” recently ceased to exist, the president of which he has recently been, and the project of the Russian-Ukrainian football association has lost all relevance, the faith in his abilities gradually faded. Well, the Zenit methods at least give Russia some successes.

True, the last championship is slightly overshadowed by the result of the match with the Ufa, in which it was officially designed. The fact is that the match was supposed to be held in Ufa, but Zenit agreed on holding a game in his field - with the condition that the entire collection will be received by the nominal owners, that is, the Ufa residents. The result of the match - a draw 1: 1, which provided Zenit's championship - became a reason for suspicions of a dishonest game. The sediment, which remained after this dubious result, however, does not give the right to doubt the Honored Championship of Zenit. Of course, the St. Petersburg team earned the title with all its performance in the championship, the separation from the rivals before the match with Ufa was very large, and it seems that Zenit should not have resorted to "safety" measures. But it turned out as it turned out, and now the St. Petersburg club will have to prove their ambitions in the next season primarily a high level of game. Without it, it is impossible to achieve tasks at the European level.