Most recently, the players of the Russian national team Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev celebrated the departure of the team from the European Championship in Monte Carlo, where they went to rest immediately after returning from the tournament. However, not only Russian football players know how to relax in a big way. NTV recalls how individual players and entire national teams celebrated not only their own victories, but also defeats.
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Alexander Kokorin (Zenit) and Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar)
What's happened?
Footballers of the Russian national team Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev at the Twiga nightclub. A video of a fragment of this action appeared on the Instagram network.
The players bought about 500 bottles of expensive champagne, which the waiters brought into the hall to the sound of the Russian anthem, and treated everyone to them. According to media reports, they spent about 250 thousand euros on this. The recording also shows that the players smoked a hookah.
In addition, a video appeared on the Internet capturing how Mamaev's wife Alan and Kokorin's girlfriend Daria Valitova.
This behavior did not go unnoticed by the public, and the clubs decided to punish too cheerful players. After a noisy party Mamaev, and Kokorin . Both players will also be fined by their respective clubs.
In the Kremlin, the party of football players in Monaco was called "a conceited disgrace."
Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation: “Obviously, everyone, including the president, has heard about the excess. It received very wide media coverage, a wide public response. Here, probably, you still need to be very careful, and first decide whether this conceited disgrace was paid for by our players or someone else. Here, you see, it’s unfounded, just throwing stones is very easy.”
Sports Minister and President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko promised that the behavior of the players will be taken into account when forming the national team.
The State Duma called the incident defiant against the backdrop of "achievements" at the European Championships.
Real Madrid players
What's happened?
In 2015, Real Madrid players Sami Khedira and James Rodriguez were disciplined by the club's management for participating in a noisy party on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.
Participants of this party were fined large sums. In addition, Sami Khedira did not enter the field in the first team of the Spanish team, and Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said that the players risked exacerbating existing health problems.
Such a severe punishment followed due to the fact that the players began to have fun immediately after the devastating defeat from the Spanish club Atlético in the Spanish Championship (0:4). Then club president Perez said: “Stop doing nonsense! Don't forget that millions of people are rooting for you!"
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In addition, the behavior of the hero of the occasion was called categorically unacceptable and even threatened next time with a tougher punishment.
It must be said that fans of the players also did not like their behavior. Soon the offended crowd went to the gates of the club base with a banner "Your laughter our shame."
Ukrainian national team at Euro 2016
What's happened?
After the match with Germany at Euro 2016, which is now taking place in France, the media reported that the Ukrainian national team made a mess in the locker room: they found not only a large number of cigarette butts, but also bottles of beer and wine.
“The players removed the bitterness of defeat quickly,” German journalists from Bild noted in the description of the photo.
However, no official comments followed.
Note that the Ukrainians were the first of the participants in Euro 2016. They failed to score points and took fourth place in the group, their defeat from Northern Ireland played a role. The Ukrainian national team lost in that match with a score of 0:2.
Photo: Reuters/Yves Herman
In addition, on July 5, 2016, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) launched an investigation into the Ukrainian national team. Football players are suspected of doping: hypodermic syringes were found in the hotel where they lived. This was reported by the Belgian edition of Nieuwsblad. According to preliminary information, the French experts did not reveal any violations.
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool)
What's happened?
Liverpool midfielder Raheem Sterling was convicted not only of smoking a hookah, but also of using the so-called laughing gas.
In April 2015, the corresponding photo appeared on the Internet just a couple of hours after the player in an interview with the BBC announced that he was refusing a new contract with a salary of 100 thousand pounds a week.
According to media reports, the photo was taken by someone from the company with which Raheem Sterling was vacationing in Liverpool. The inscription “1 down 3 to go” (“it’s over with one, there are three left”) means that the famous football player was not limited to one hookah.
It should be noted that the club's management was extremely dissatisfied with this behavior of their player, but no sanctions were applied to him.
Franck Ribery (Bayern) and Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
What's happened?
Famous football players of the French national team were suspected of using the sexual services of a minor Zahia Dehar. On the eve of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the girl made a sensational statement that she had a sexual relationship with national team players Karim Benzema and Franck Ribery. She was under 18 at the time of the connection.
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Now let's talk about football. As you know, I am rather indifferent to football, and I consider professional sport in its current form to be harmful and dangerous. Some kind of medieval barbarism - to watch how the crowd is entertained in the arena by a couple of dozen people who are faced with a choice: either become heroes or die. Of course, in the modern world, they do not die physically: in the worst case, they remain disabled without education and prospects. While you are just starting a career at 30, professional sportsman with a load of illnesses and injuries, he thinks how to build a life from scratch, when you don’t know how and nobody needs you. Units are knocked out. The rest are burned down so that you can talk about how to play, how to run, jump and win while drinking beer near the TV.
So that the sacrifice of the players was not in vain, let's talk about how to play football. I asked my good friend Sergei Kanashevich to tell me what the problem is and what to do about it all. Read and express your opinion. I heard that among my readers every second is a football expert!
“The last two days, the Runet has looked like a hornet’s nest, into which a village kid launched a stone from a slingshot. All, of course, because of the “failure” of the Russian national football team at the Euro. Varlamov yesterday wrote an emotional post about. Today we will continue the topic.
The standard accusation against our players from the fans is as follows: "These snickering millionaires don't know how and don't want to play football. We believe, we hope, we suffer, but they don't care".
Let's figure out how we should be now.
Firstly, no failure, of course, did not happen, but a quite expected event happened, demonstrating the real level of development of football in the country. Secondly, Russian teams play football not at all as badly as it might seem during the match with Wales. Moreover, I will say a blasphemous thing: they play football well. They just got out of the habit of full-fledged competition.
For some reason, it is customary for us to scold football players for abnormally high salaries and fees, although this is just a by-product of the system built by our sports functionaries. But it's not only that. There are cosmic salaries in decaying Europe, and in the USA, and in China, and in Turkey, and in India, and in the Arab countries. It's just that they get players of a different caliber there.
Modern football is the sport of professionals. Football players get paid a lot of money for risking their health every day on the field and in training. A very very big money is a common thing for top clubs or medium championships that need to attract superstars. What are superstars for? Ideally, to earn money from them.
When a real master comes to the club, albeit on a huge salary, the club's opportunities grow. With the help of a world-class football player, you can earn on the growth of stadium attendance, the sale of T-shirts with his name, the sale of television rights (if an adequate distribution system is in place) and high results. Yes, yes, the budget of a normal club consists not only of oil and gas bubbles, but also of bonuses for winning the national championship, successful performance in the Champions League, and so on.
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Once again, this is ideal. Whether the club guessed with the purchase of such a player or not is a question for the management and the coach. Even the best of the best make mistakes. Not to mention the fact that in a number of countries (including ours) football as a business system simply does not work. The general opinion is that in Russia only the owner of CSKA Giner and the owner of Krasnodar Galitsky can make money on football (although it will take a long time to figure out the details).
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But there is another important point that applies equally to clubs and the national team. When there is a constant influx of superstars and just strong players into the championship, the level of competition inevitably grows. Young guys, who yesterday stared with their mouths open at the conditional Ronaldinho or Ibrahimovic on TV, today play with him in a pass in training. Or, on the contrary, they go out to defend against him for the opposing team. They look at him, learn and gradually understand that somewhere they can play just as well, somewhere they can stop him, and somewhere they can make a more appropriate decision than this very star.
It's all about competition.
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And what is happening with Russia? Yesterday and today, all experts, all famous coaches and the most respected players of the national team suddenly remembered that the main problem of our football is the limit on foreign players.
Vasily Berezutsky, defender of the Russian national team and CSKA:
It is necessary to raise young people, to change the approach to football. Today we tried, but everything is on the case. We don't have stars. Something needs to be done with Russian football. We need to leave for Europe. We do not benefit from the fact that we play in the Premier League, with a limit.
Roman Shirokov, midfielder of the Russian national team and CSKA:
It is definitely necessary to cancel the limit. But I don't think that all of our young players are directly in demand in Europe. They probably won't take everyone. To leave, you need to somehow show yourself on such forums as this one, or in the Champions League. But, unfortunately, not everything is so rosy.
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Stanislav Cherchesov, a likely candidate for the post of coach of the Russian national team:
I would like the limit on legionnaires to generally allow 11 foreigners. So that Russian players leave for serious foreign championships.
Vladislav Radimov, Main coach"Zenith-2":
Slutsky is not the problem, because he is the most successful coach in our country - he has won everything in Russia. An alternative to him, perhaps, can be found, but he led the team absolutely deservedly.<...>Remove this limit to hell! If this is not done, in two years we will get the same thing as today. Please, cry from the heart: please remove the limit on legionnaires! If we tighten the limit again, then in two years the national team can not even participate anywhere.
The notorious limit is when more than a certain number of foreign players cannot appear on the field and in the team's application at the same time. Now we have a formula "6 + 5", that is, out of 11 players on the field, a maximum of 6 can be foreigners, the rest must be citizens of the Russian Federation. Clubs are punished for exceeding the limit.
Hulk in Zenit, Promes in Spartak, Musa and Wernbloom in CSKA, Karadeniz in Rubin, Joaozinho and Kabor in Krasnodar, Navas and Azmun in Rostov - these are the people who have become the decoration of the Russian championship. But for competition to appear, there should be no prohibitions. Then there will be twice as many strong players. This means that the number of Russian children will also grow, who from a young age will begin to follow the leaders and work on themselves. Those who, for one reason or another, failed to break into the squad, will leave for the European championships to gain experience in the fight against monsters.
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The limit has been in effect for several years. Previously, it was a little more democratic ("7 + 4"), but the fruits - here they are, please. When state regulation comes to the sphere where the best must break through the crucible of competition, it turns out the performance of the Russian team at Euro 2016.
Young Russian footballers are not rushing to the strongest championships, they are fine at home. Why work off a penny in the Portuguese League and rush to Real Madrid through the Benfica double, if you can play for an impressive fee somewhere in Dynamo, knowing that you will still get into the squad, because there is simply no one to force you out? Why ruin your health in the English Premier League, where every day they beat you painfully on the legs and shoved with your elbows, if you can selflessly polish the bench in the conditional “Mordovia”?
Vitaly Mutko, Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation:
It is necessary to raise the level of the championship itself, it is necessary that the players leave to play abroad. Otherwise, the Welsh have three players, and you can't do anything with them. He out in the middle of the field beat ours - and that's it. We don't have such a player.
Now Mutko says that it would be nice if our players went to Europe... Well, cancel the limit! Athletes should not be brought up in greenhouse conditions. If Russian football players want to be pros and win the Euros, then they should take the competition not as a personal insult, but as an opportunity to constantly improve. So, they must be taught to compete from childhood.
So, the main problem Russian football is this a limit? But no! The main problem of our football is the officials who accepted this limit.
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Our sports functionaries are usually very old, and they sincerely yearn for the scoop. They want the factory teams to compete with each other in the championship, like Kassil had in the “Goalkeeper of the Republic”. So that from the Yashins and Mondays it was possible to assemble an ideologically correct and all-conquering team.
But the days of amateur sports are over. Everyone - not only athletes, but also these very officials - want to earn money. Don't you think there's a contradiction here?"
What discoveries are still ahead of this championship? Nightmare of Russian football. Will we learn anything?
Russian fans began to leave the stadium in Toulouse before the end of the game. “There must be a desire to fight for the country. Just go out and fight like the French,” they said.
“I saw how Smolov ran after Bale. The farther Bale ran to our gates, the quieter Smolov ran. And in the end he stopped. Russian athlete, - noted Evgeny Lovchev, a sports observer, in 1972-1975 - a defender of the USSR national football team, an international master of sports of the USSR. “Today they are spoiled, snickering, exorbitantly paid, showing us on Instagram what kind of Mercedes they drive. And I'm interested in them showing how well they play at the European Championship, they score goals. There was an indicative moment when Roman Shirokov was replaced, he handed over the captain's armband. And Golovin gave a pass. Ignashevich refused. They didn't know who to give. A nightmare!"
Nevertheless, after the match, only Igor Akinfeev found the strength to approach the fans and apologize.
“I often quote Nikolai Petrovich Starostin, with whom I worked for many years at Spartak. He said: “If a fan sees that a player has given himself completely to the game, the struggle, but has not won, he will forgive, but will not forgive indifference,” said Nikita Simonyan, First Vice President of the RFU, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
The stadium in Toulouse was the last place where the Russian national team played at Euro 2016. The football festival continues, but without us. After another failure, there is a lot of talk about what needs to be changed in domestic football, especially since in two years Russia will have the World Cup - a grand event where it is so important not to lose face.
Leonid Slutsky left the post of head coach of the national team. After a disastrous match, he, like a man, took full responsibility for himself. But specialists have the least complaints about the coach.
"After 2008, we are playing worse with each major tournament. It is obvious that this is a movement by inertia, a movement that is fading. We have structural problems in football," said Vladimir Stognienko, a sports commentator.
“If we can play 5-6 games in a season in the Russian championship, then in England or Spain or Germany you have to prove every game that you are the best,” said Andrey Kanchelskis, international master of sports of the USSR.
The distant 1960, when the USSR national team became the winner of the European championship. The ball is received by Mikhail Meskhi. He beats the defender, an accurate cross on the goal, and Monday heads the second goal. This is the decisive goal that brought our team the European Cup. The winners were greeted by Paris.
After that, the Soviet Union team won silver three more times: in 1964, 1972 and 1988. In addition, the USSR national team became the champion Olympic Games in 1956 and 1988 and three times - the bronze medalist of the Olympics. And the Soviet championship was completely different. Dozens of brilliant teams! Quite a different situation today.
“Where is the support, where is the youth?! There is no place for youth in the teams of the main clubs. We basically have a bunch of legionnaires - these are consumer goods, people who have not found work in the West or in Eastern Europe.
A vivid example of what is happening in domestic football is the legendary Dynamo club, for the first time in its history, was relegated from the Premier League. A real drama for fans and veterans.
“For all football players or Dynamo Moscow players of my generation, maybe older, it is emptiness when you lose something close, dear. I still can’t believe that this happened. Of course, this is a tragedy,” sighs Vladimir Pilguy, in 1971-1980 - the goalkeeper of the USSR national team, international master of sports of the USSR.
The Dynamo stadium will soon look completely different. Construction is in full swing. But the question is whether the famous club will be able to shine on this site.
"The team plays poorly, but they get big money. I think it's unfair: they either have to play well, or they have to get paid less," said Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Board of PJSC VTB Bank.
The main question is the level children's football, because in the same USSR hundreds of teams competed all over the country! Suffice it to recall at least the same "Leather Ball" and dozens of other tournaments.
Of course, even now football schools exist and are even developing with large and ambitious clubs - say, in Krasnodar - but there are frankly few such examples.
“It is necessary to return the children so that they play street to street in the village, then village to village, then district to district, region to region. It is necessary to create a whole system. The main thing is to football the country, make it fall in love with football,” Evgeny Lovchev is sure.
It is hardly possible to out-football the country in two years, but if nothing changes again during this time, it will be another powerful goal against us.
The game of the Russian national football team at Euro 2016 was criticized at the plenary session of the State Duma by LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, TACC reports.
“Slutsky is probably an honest coach. He conducted an experiment: they did not play the first half, they started playing the second. He had rightly said beforehand that he would leave. We need to find a normal coach, in general we need a school of coaches and a school of football players. Why do our players play badly? Got drunk! They receive millions of euros a year – for what?”, the politician was indignant. Zhirinovsky believes that "Russian boys from the yard" will drive the ball no worse than the national team players, and for free.
"We became free Olympic champions in football and free of charge, our team 50 years ago became the fourth in the world, and now it cannot enter the top ten, although a lot of money has been thrown at it. And why? Wrong approach - it is necessary to educate yard teams, to hold district and city competitions, ”summed up the LDPR leader.
0 July 5, 2016, 19:18Alexander Kokorin, Pavel Mamaev
At the European Championships, it did not affect the mood too much. For example, Alexander Kokorin (“Zenith”) and Pavel Mamaev (“Krasnodar”), playing for the national team, went to “lick their wounds” in Monaco, where they come off to the fullest.
The other day, athletes, according to media reports, threw a grand party at the popular Monte Carlo nightclub, Twiga, which cost them 250 thousand euros (or even more). Football players smoked a hookah, drank and had fun, and their wives, Daria Valitova and Alana Mamaeva, danced right on the sofas.
As it became known thanks to eyewitnesses, Kokorin and Mamaev ordered 500 bottles of Armand De Brignac champagne for 500 euros each. Champagne was brought out to the Russian anthem, with fireworks and sparklers - there was so much of it that some guests simply took the bottles from the tables.
Video recordings of the revelry quickly spread across the Web and caused a negative reaction from both the Russian authorities and ordinary Internet users.
A lot of memes have appeared on Twitter:
The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, also caustically commented on the incident on his Twitter page:
The wide public outcry caused by the behavior of the national team players forced the management of the Krasnodar club, for which Mamaev stands, to take action - the midfielder of the Russian national team and Krasnodar was transferred to the youth team of the Kuban club:
In connection with the information that appeared in the media about the party with the participation of the football player of our club Pavel Mamaev, we consider it our duty to state the following: we believe that such behavior is outrageous and unacceptable for a player of FC Krasnodar. In this connection, within the framework of the current contract, disciplinary and financial measures will be applied to him,
- said the general director of FC Krasnodar Vladimir Khashig.
Alexander Kokorin, Pavel Mamaev, Vasily Berezutsky. Euro 2016
Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin with teammatesThe Minister of Sports of Russia and President of the RFU Vitaly Mutko commented on the situation when he talked about how the national team would be formed for the following championships:
Believe me, the behavior of candidates for the national team will be taken into account. Everyone spends time according to their upbringing.
However, the players deny all the accusations against them: Kokorin said that he had nothing to do with the party.
It would be foolish to deny that we were present in this institution. This happened four or five days ago. Everyone who knows this place can confirm that there are always many Russian visitors there. So it was this time. Someone was celebrating a birthday, and we were just there. Naturally, everyone saw these ordered bottles, heard the Russian anthem, but why attribute the organization of all this to us? We have nothing to do with the bills for this party, nor with its surroundings, and with the money that is being talked about in the media, one could buy not only champagne, but the whole institution,
- TASS quotes Kokorin.
Alexander KokorinNote that 25-year-old Kokorin and 27-year-old Mamaev are among the highest paid Russian football players: according to media reports, Kokorin earned 5 million euros last year, Mamaev - 1.6 million euros.
Mamaev, by the way, for Lately for the second time he gets into a mess because of his love of life on a grand scale: after the defeat at Euro 2016, Mamaev posted on Instagram a photo taken in a private plane on the way to Nice - and immediately became an anti-hero of the country.
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Pavel Mamaev
Pavel Mamaev with his wifeSource Snob
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