Inner fire

When Slutsky sprinkled his head with ashes, there were voices that he was not so bad. Like, the army coach literally dragged the Russian national team into the outgoing Euro 2016 train. For this alone, he supposedly "should erect a monument." So the commentators said in the studio. And I realized that Slutsky is oil, and the Russian team is actually Russia itself, which we remembered it in the fat Putin years ...

It’s somehow not to scold our national team. You might think that you do not love your homeland very well, and make seats. Today, the trend is meaningful thoughtfulness and moderate optimism. Still, 2 years still remained to the triumphal (not otherwise!) Speech by Russian leather balls at the 2018 Home World Cup.

Nevertheless, there are no careless languages, no, and Kramol flocked. Someone remembered how Artem our Dziuba once "did not understand humor" when he was asked about the desire to "play in one of the leading European cups." "Where am I playing?" - the athlete was surprised.

Judging by salary, the football player is right. When the pupils of Berdyev at the Rostov stadium carried a “zenith” into “one gate” (3: 0), Dziuba really received much more for his mediocre game than Vardi in “Leicester” (not to mention Rostovites!). Moreover, to make Dziube easier to play, Gazprom bought a Hulk and Witsel for Zenit. But it did not help ...

The drunken air of corruption played with our "owners of life" - from Putin to Dziuba - an angry joke: they sincerely believed in their exclusivity

The holy simplicity of Dziuba, who believes that the steep car, the Legionnaires and European Cups and European Cups once a year provide him with an honorary place "in the elite of football Europe"-this, of course, is ridiculous. But not funny than everything else in Putin's Russia. One and a half decades in the country accumulated confidence that the main thing is health. Because we will buy everything else. And after all it turned out a lot! Especially in the sport that is guided by smiling elders from the IOC and FIFA with pockets protruded from bribes. The drunken air of corruption played with our "owners of life" - from Putin to Dziuba - an evil joke: they sincerely believed in their exclusivity. And the fans believed. Because it hurts them so much when the sofa ended ...

Meanwhile, even the most heavy hangover has a huge plus - sobriety. Now, when the Morok was asleep, it's time to look at the “alien eyes” at the very football Europe in which there was no place for overfed “Gazproms” of the Russian “stars”. There today is a paradigm, which was considered unshakable, at least the last 20–25 years. If before Euro 2016 the early victory of the “low-budget“ club ”Lester in the richest European football league could be considered curilates, now you have to state-this is a pan-European one, if not a global trend. Suddenly, it turned out overnight that it was not the gods of pots that were burning, that football is a team game in which money is only one of the factors. And not necessarily positive. For example, superstars in the team is far from always good ...

The other day, the Russian commentator could not resist and called the current Italian team "Workers' and Peasants". Because among her field players there is not a single celebrity. But for the teams of the "great" Zlatan Ibrahimovich (Sweden) and the "Zenitts" of Witzel (Belgium) is a weak consolation! The same can be said about the team of Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), who tied with the “Curial team” Iceland and could not score Austria-which means that before the third round the same point as the Dziuba team.

When the group tournament ends, it will be very interesting to compare two digits: the total cost of players of different teams and the result that they showed. Of course, there was never a hundred percent correspondence. At all times, there were "dark horses." But today, a whole "dark herd" is having fun through the meadow of the pampered Akhalketians and the Oryol trotes!

All the trump cards of the "Grands" turned out to be bats. A smooth composition in which any player can replace any other is preferable to "star". After all, "stars" can easily "remove" injury, "personal guardian" or bad mood. And then the game built under them falls apart.

The recognizable style and worked out techniques, which at one time have provided the championship of Spain and Germany today, are powerless against well -motivated "weak" teams that are used to playing the "second number". Moreover, predictability becomes a common Achilles fifth of almost all “grades”.

A technicracy coach, whose “every fighter knows his maneuver,” today looks like a fossil against the backdrop of a psychologist, a restraint coach, whose motto can be the words of the Ranieri “inner fire” mentor, which each of his players must find in himself. As a result, yesterday's losers are smashed "Dream Tim" one after another, do not leave the lips of admiring fans and become live symbols of our time ...

All this would not be too interesting if only Europe and only football concerned. The same Ranieri said half a year ago: "In the world in which money is rule, the success of" Lester "gives hope to everyone." The opposite statement is also true: the success of the "Lester" is one consequences of a tectonic shift that has already touched everyone.

In the field of technology, Tesla and Ilon Musk, who would be considered just a funny madman, did not leave the mouth. Bernie Sanders, who has about $ 20, invaded the sphere of politics, “People’s Candidate” of the “People’s Candidate”. In Switzerland and Finland, the first attempts are made to save a person from the burden of forced labor, providing him with "unconditional income." This idea yesterday would be recognized as a "communist utopia" or just madness. Meanwhile, she did not appear out of the blue. It is enough to compare the effectiveness of volunteers, officials and employees of private companies in order to make sure the exclusive value of "internal fire". It is only necessary to help him to light up and maintain combustion.

The old world with the face of Donald Trump is still snapping, but it seems that he is doomed. It is no coincidence that the key players of Lester, invited to the best clubs in Europe, refused. He stopped negotiations on the transition to Arsenal and the main scorer of the team Jaime Vardi. Contrary to the fashionable saying, in England the "loot" could not "defeat evil" ...

By the way, the Rostov football club, which this year, only the lazy did not compare with the "Leicester", will also have to matches of the Champions League. Here we see, here we compare.

Vladimir Golyshev - Publicist and playwright

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