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, sports observer, in 1972-1975 - defender of the USSR national football team, master of sports of the USSR international class. “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 fight, but has not won, he will forgive, but will not forgive indifference,” Nikita emphasized 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 class master of sports of the USSR, in 1989-1991 years - midfielder of the USSR national team, in 1991-1995 - midfielder for Manchester United.

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, three more times the team Soviet Union won silver: 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?! Youth have no place 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. Where to go? To Russia. In Russia they pay money to the right and to the left, they are thrown," says Valery Reingold, football expert, master of sports of the USSR.

A vivid example of what is happening in domestic football is legendary club"Dynamo" for the first time in its history flew out of the Premier League. A real drama for fans and veterans.

“For all the players or Dynamo Moscow players of my generation, maybe older, it’s emptiness when you lose something close, dear. I still can’t believe that this happened. Of course, this is a tragedy,” Vladimir sighs Pilgui, in 1971-1980 - the goalkeeper of the USSR national team, master of sports of the USSR of international class.

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 with large and ambitious clubs football schools exist and even develop - say, in Krasnodar - but there are frankly few such examples.

“We need 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.

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Alexander 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, the midfielder of the Russian national team and Krasnodar, to take measures. youth team 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 current contract disciplinary and financial measures will be applied to him,

- said CEO FC Krasnodar Vladimir Khashig.

Alexander Kokorin, Pavel Mamaev, Vasily Berezutsky. Euro 2016

Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin with teammates

The 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 Kokorin

Note 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, has recently been trapped for the second time because of his love for life on wide leg: after the defeat at Euro 2016, Mamaev published in Instagram photo, made on a private jet on the way to Nice - and immediately became the anti-hero of the country.

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Pavel Mamaev

Pavel Mamaev with his wife

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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 on a grand scale, 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 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 Kokorina -. 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 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 Spanish club"Atletico" in the championship of Spain (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 is our shame."

Ukrainian national team at Euro 2016

What 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 bitterness of defeat was quickly removed by the players,” German journalists from Bild noted in the description of the photo.

However, no official comments followed.

It should be noted that the Ukrainians were the first of the participants in Euro 2016. They could not score points and took fourth place in the group, their defeat from Northern Ireland. 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 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 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 the national team players Karim Benzema and Franck Ribery. She was under 18 at the time of the connection.

Photo: Reuters/Andrea Comas

Our football players Mamaev and Kokorin had a lot of fun in the cool Monte Carlo club. And, having smelt 250 thousand euros, they again provoked a wave of popular hatred. The Russian anthem became the soundtrack of the bohat bacchanalia, which is symbolic.

For people who were forced to root for the proud Vikings, this turned out to be the last straw. Even kind Moraine freaked out and erupted in indignation on her FB. People want to ban this kind of football and punish the assholes.

Their attitude annoys me. After the failure with Wales, Mamaev posted a photo on Instagram with a completely indifferent caption:

Against the background of this picture, I recall another frame from the 2002 World Cup. He pulled me out of my summer vacation. I bought soda in tin cans, which depicted our football players - Mostovoy, Beschastnykh ... Remember the finale? Brazil-Germany. Oliver Kahn conceded two goals. The photo where he sits in collars has spread all over the world. How much despair was on his face! I think he was crying. And I wanted to cry with him, although I never rooted for german football. But such tears cost a lot. And a football player who fights for the country, for football, for the fans, is worth a lot.

I am not opposed to the Kokorins and Mamaevs earning millions of euros. The market itself dictates wages. Since the clubs pay them such crazy money, it means that they consider it logical. Another thing is that the players should not forget for whom they enter the field. Not for the sake of officials from the RFU or the Ministry of Sports, who report for the work done to the first person of the country. Not for the sake of top managers of oil and gas corporations pouring billions of people's dough into the most popular sport on the planet. And for you and me. Those who are waiting for matches at the TV screens or go to stadiums. Without the end consumer, footballers are meaningless.

Professional sports From time immemorial in our country, it performs two tasks: it entertains and distracts from pressing problems. We are winning the Dutch - the electorate thinks how strong Rosseyushka has become, since we have gone over them like a skating rink. Loses with a bang to Wales - and there are thousands of dissatisfied comments. From the series: in our country, everything is a complete mess. Naturally, everything is not all right in football.

And since the national team has such an important mission, then the assholes kicking the ball should return to the ground. Do not cry and live in misery, no. And just fight on the field and be less impudent. And to become that team for which you want to fly to the other side of the globe, get sick, tear your throat and not sleep at night. And do not feel spat after that.