The failure of Russia to Euro 2016. Reactions

Vitaly Mutko, Leonid Slutsky and others - about the results of the championship

Russia flew out with Euro 2016, taking the last place in group V. In the first match, the Russians managed to draw a draw with England (1: 1), in the second they lost Slovakia (1: 2), and in the third Russians were defeated by the Welsh (0: 3). Immediately after departure from the tournament, the first persons of Russian sports and the players themselves told what was the case and what would happen now.

Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sports of Russia

We have such a level of football. We must work on it. We must admit this: that today we have such a level that there are no players of the highest level. The objective situation is this. You can’t do anything overnight - the championship should grow, players should appear. We must do this and not destroy each other. It seems to you that they have a normal physical level, but 6-7 players for the first time played at this level. For many, it may not be unwillingness to grow, move, improve, but here I need to go through.

Leonid Slutsky, head coach of the Russian national team

I believe that I lost my duties. I think that the tournament is a more fateful tournament for us ( the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in 2018 - approx. Medusa ) should prepare another person. I tried to do the maximum that I am capable of, but, alas, my maximum was not enough. But I do not regret anything. I would like to apologize to the fans for the football that we showed, in particular, today. Those people who were overlooking us did not deserve this level of game. I am ready to take all the blame on myself, I failed to cope with my duties.

Roman Shirokov, captain of the Russian national team

Were there any chances after the first half lost with a score of 0: 2? There are always chances. But the way we use them suggests that, by and large, they were not.

Vasily Berezutsky, player of the Russian national team

You need to apologize to the fans, football [game with the Welsh] is difficult to name, because they lost 0: 3, they played everything badly. Fans want to say encouraging words, you need to raise their youth. [We must] apologize for the fact that they arranged today, Wales beat us in all respects. We must grow young people, change the approach to football, what we lost today cannot be said that we did not try. Everything was on the case, we have no stars of our own, we must do something with Russian football. Probably, football players need to leave for Europe. The fact that we all play in the Premier League is introducing some limits, all this is not good. I must admit that we are not at a high level of football, and to change something. We were preparing to play attacking football, but it did not work out. We had one moment, Wales had ten.

Vyacheslav Koloskov, Honorary President of the Russian Football Union

The further the team went along the tournament, the worse she played. It is not clear what football was shown today and why the players were so lethargic and inert. The Russian team was simply not capable of anything. The Welships opened better, combined, played the pass and realized the moments. For more than 90 minutes there was only one blow to [Fedor] Smolov on the target of the gate. Otherwise, the matter did not get to the blows at all. The best players in Russia bring us 0: 3 in the match with Wales. This will go down in the history of world football. How can you play like that? I don't understand what the reason is.

Leonid Fedun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Spartak

In the Wild West there is such a phrase: "Do not shoot at the pianist, he plays as he can." So in our national team. Unfortunately, we saw that even the middle European team, albeit with one star, is better than our team. Ours looked uncompetitive, the speed of decision -making, the development of attacks, everything was not at the level. Now you do not need to shy away from side to side and bring down everything on the coach.

Dmitry Svishchev, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Sports and Youth Affairs

Now I have disappointment and a complete emptiness in my soul. It is not clear what our players do in general, I am ashamed of our football. The players stood and did not even walk around the field in the game with the Wales team. It turns out that the change of Capello on Slutsky did not justify itself. And the question here is not even in Capello, not in Hiddinka, and not even in our coaches. So far I do not see Russian football at all. We are among beginners, catching up. I am not a specialist, but I judge as a fan, I received continuous depression. It happens when they play, lose, but there was a struggle. But when ours are not even trying to break on the goal, but they throw off each other a pass, as if shifting responsibility to each other.