The disappointment is huge, as a fan not dispose ever. An avid tournament for national teams like myself, a World Cup fanatic since he was a child can not follow another World Cup without Russia, the second row. Elimination inexplicable, that I would not have even remotely imagined. Football is only a sport, for heaven's sake, there are undoubtedly more important things in the life of a man, but would not wish even to my worst enemy to suffer a defeat this sport.
I try my simple but to write a version of what happened yesterday evening, and in general in the play-off against Slovenia in a post of journalism (or pseudo-such) obviously will not have anything. A simple outburst of a bitter fan than ever.
On the way there was no game: who saw the race knows, chickens and especially not close to us to be damn late goals (risk that this could be achieved at 90 '+4). E 'was that goal that we have random Pecnik eliminated.
Yesterday the team was not mentally right, it came to the village. I had already guessed by the national anthems: a more worried about the other, the same Hiddink HE WAS DOING THE BOTTOM. To think that pre-match statements portend a very different performance: "We will attack them, we are Russia, will play the attack as we have always done." We have seen. The
first half was pathetic: we can not do an action worthy of note, not even two steps in a row; ALL PLAYERS LEGS tremble visibly. The Slovenes, however, were loaded to a thousand, and have created a lot of opportunities, legitimate their advantage, even deserved to be ahead by two goals. In the second half
hoped for a turning point, which never happened. We created some opportunities (in the final two resounding with Zhirkov and V. Berezutskiy), but the maneuver was always confused, devoid of ideas, and clarity had already gone to hell. We could have scored one and only thanks to an episode or to any staff that FUORICLASSE named Yuri Zhirkov. Then came
stage the referee, the bad Hauge (always put a wrong refereeing northern Russia, but I do not want to hold on to these things too), who ejected with a red direct Kerzhakov, just entered the field. Expulsion right? Absolutely not. Sasha could pull back the leg, but the replay you can see how well intended attempt to take the ball to divert it over the network. Kerzhakov who was also hit by two players punched Slovenian (Handanovic is a tiny little man). Horned and clubs, in fact.
Kerzhakov out crying when I saw the field I knew we'd never gone (despite still missing half an hour). Everything was already written: my idol, who he brought me to this movement, kicked off in a crucial match like this, especially for the generation of those players who impressed me so much in 2002 but most likely no longer participate in the World Cup. Again, everything was already written. We believed
little, too little, seems to play with one player (Zhirkov), which despite being theoretically less fit (because an injury has never played for Chelsea!) Was the only one trying. We inevitably unbalanced and we were even graced by our opponents.
Hiddink? We got nothing. Since the initial training, the exchange rate (ritardatissimo to Pogrebnyak, we played per un quarto d'ora con Bilyaletdinov centravanti!!!) e soprattutto a livello psicologico non è riuscito minimamente a caricare i giocatori. Aveva più paura lui di loro . E' il più grande fallimento della sua carriera, questo è poco ma sicuro.
Resterà? No. Innanzitutto credo che sia lui stesso a non voler rinnovare, ma anche se decidesse di restare per prendersi una rivincita personale, sarebbe la stessa Federazione Russa (immagino furente) a cacciarlo, visto anche il lauto stipendio che percepisce.
Che cosa e quanto avrebbe potuto dare la Russia al Mondiale sudafricano? Tanto. Se fosse arrivata in forma, avrebbe potuto benissimo essere una delle principali outsider, avrebbe potuto fare way short. And above all to entertain the public, including the neutral, with its fast and offensive game. But with the right and but if you do not go anywhere, and South Africa will go the insipid Slovenia, which will be eliminated in the first round.
Personally, at least let me say that I am "rosicare" not just see skilled teams like Italy (which has always played badly), and especially Argentina, two teams during the qualifiers have won almost entirely favorable to the episodes. Here, in this respect, yesterday Russia has played like Maradona's Argentina in the last group matches . The same tension, same fear. But the episode is not favorable to us happened. Russia, which has, remember, he played on the whole a good qualifying campaign, not difficult, it is true, but always winning and authorities except against Germany came down on the floor of the game both on the back. All the German media, players, coach Low, had declared that Russia would be the team to be feared more in the playoffs, the one to be avoided at all costs. And rather sadly came out against the objectively weaker opponent.
Individual? All evil, apart from the only two samples of the rose, Akinfeev and Zhirkov. Arshavin, sorry to say, but it has not proved to be a champion, making it the worst field in the outward che al ritorno. Ieri sembrava dovesse spaccare il mondo, ma ha giocato peggio che all'andata. Se siamo stati eliminati, però, gran parte del "merito" è da attribuire all'unico vero CANCRO della nostra squadra, i difensori centrali. Incommentabili Ignashevich e Vasily Berezutskiy. Ecco, l'unica notiza positiva dell'eliminazione è forse proprio questa: difficilmente vestiranno ancora la maglia della 'Sbornaya'. Peccato però che in quel ruolo di alternative valide non ce ne siano, neanche tra i giovanissimi.
Tutti gli altri dei fantasmi che vagavano per il campo, perforabili in fase difensiva, innocui in quella offensiva. Gente senza palle insomma, senza personalità .
La mentalità, psychological fragility has always been the main limitation of Russian football, this is known. Hopefully, with the landing of one of the best coaches in the world for things to change, the players become more confident that I was wrong, as demonstrated by the defeat in Tel Aviv, following the company home against England. Even then, in short, we had committed suicide alone and without the sportiness of Croatia would have stayed at home.
Later, however, 'we played a great European, playing wonderful football at times (counted on the fingers of one hand the national who played better in a great demonstration of Russia against Sweden and especially admired the Netherlands). We looked intended to (re) enter between the major national, we were back to being respected and feared by all as the days of the USSR. In short, in my heart I hoped that the national had forgotten those psychological problems and mental paid a heavy price in the past. And instead ... and instead, here we are, eliminated from the next World Cup from Slovenia, a country smaller than the St. Petersburg region alone, so to speak. Humiliation unprecedented, totally unexpected.
What will happen in the future? I do not know and do not want to think about.
Several players will come out of the loop (I think the over-30 as Semak, Zyryanov and Semshov), some will abandon the (fear Arshavin, who could not recover from this devastating blow), they will confess the many useless and stupid. There will be fresh air, you'll want to change everything. All bull (pardon the French, however, granted in an outburst like this), because that Russia - a bit like England's McClaren (who was still at the level of even stronger) - is not a team to re-establish. Technically, there has bases, is a team of thickness (defense aside), that in a World Cup would not have made their appearance.
yet ... and yet, here is the second consecutive elimination.
Since I follow the Russian national team, which I've always favored the national football team than the club, me during the World Cup impazzisco nel vero senso del termine (nel senso che mi estraneo da tutto, per me esiste solo quel torneo), non ho mai visto la Russia partecipare ad una fase finale della ex Coppa Rimet. Che tristezza.
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