Weekend Medusa

What should we do with football for the next month

Hello, there are three days left before the World Cup. It will be exciting and inspiring, exhausting and exhausting, it will make us freeze in front of the screens, and in the end we will definitely get bored. On the eve of the championship, we decided to tell the readers of "Evening Medusa" what our editorial board is going to do in connection with this.

The World Cup is an amazing phenomenon: the very time when millions of people around the world suddenly start to get sick of football; really worry about strange teams, and not necessarily from their own country; argue who is better - Costa Rica or Uruguay. These same people in the interval between the championships may never appear at the stadium, not watch a single match - and in general it is difficult to imagine what position Paul Pogba plays. They sincerely and sincerely support the Icelandic national team, but do not know a single player in this team. There are many such people among our readers; Yes, and in the editorial office, of course, a lot.

It's these same people - occasional fans who watch football only at the World Cup - that journalists usually pay almost no attention to. There are specialized sports media - and there will be tactical analysis, analytics, goals, points and betting rates; there are state TV channels that for some reason speak to us in the language of newspaper stamps; there are tabloids that will follow Ronaldo's hairstyle and how many condoms the Nigerian national team has bought.

We at Meduza decided to take care of non-professional fans, those who want to know something about football but who are bored or have no time to sit in front of a screen for 90 minutes. Throughout the month, we will be talking about the most outstanding heroes and dramatic stories of the current championship - in a variety of genres. There will be long texts (for example, such ), and podcasts (one has already been released ), and the shortest retellings, and a big top. We will share our emotions about the most outstanding matches in the Meduza-LIVE telegram channel (it's time to subscribe to it !), and you can compete with other readers using our games (for example, these ).

We will try to make sure that you don’t get tired of the championship - but at the same time you don’t miss anything important, you find your own story in this championship that you would remember for a lifetime, or a football player you can’t help but fall in love with. We promise not to overwhelm you with push notifications - although, hell, there is a danger of getting carried away.

And the last. Like every time Russia hosts a big sporting event, there is a lot of skepticism around. Stadiums were built expensive and in the wrong place; the most football city in the country (Krasnodar) was deprived of the championship; in the cities take prohibitive security measures; the daily life of Russians was once again sacrificed in order to throw dust in the eyes of foreigners; finally, we have the weakest team and the odious coach (perfect for the Chapiteau column).

As practice shows, all this will be forgotten with the very first whistle of the judge, and Russia will be a model of hospitality , civilization, and most importantly, adequacy for the whole month. That is, it will be a country that we lack so much in normal times.

Let's spend this month together. Your (non-)football editorial