To be honest, I’m already tired of the scandals surrounding every training session of the Russian national team. Then in October the Pakistani national team refused to play with us and they promised to send some “guys from Pakistan” instead. During the November training camp, the topic of the game with the Brunei team was discussed for a long time.
Not only is the national team of this country already the weakest in history, with which the Russians played (184th place in the ranking), but it was also said that the leading players will not come, as they are on vacation and busy (!), and what players will take to the field These are amateur army men.
The RFU referred to the fact that the match would be held under the auspices of FIFA, which means the national team should play, the issue seemed to be settled. But at this moment it is unclear why he suddenly appeared Artyom Dzyubawho expressed a desire to play for the national team and “score” some goal, even against Brunei, even in the team Karpinawith whom he has had a long-term conflict.
In the end, the long-suffering match with Brunei took place. Before this, there was a lot of talk about the record that the Russian team should break. Before that, the biggest score was 9:0 in the game with San Marino. The record was also broken. Without Dziuba. The final score is 11:0.
And then it started again. Let us note right away that Valery Karpin and the players are not to be envied. They ended up, as they say in chess, in zugzwang.
That is, in a position where any next move leads to a worsening position. We scored 11 goals – bad and disgraceful. Like, they found someone. If they hadn’t scored so many, it’s a shame again; they couldn’t even beat Brunei to a record.
And Dzyuba’s theme continued again. And the topic is that it would be more useful to play with one of our clubs during the calendar break. Or with the youth team. Or with a team of foreign players from among those who were not called up to their national teams. In order not to be unfounded, here are some opinions.
Andrey Kanchelskis, ex-football player of the Russian national team
“Such games are not needed. It’s just funny. I said that it would be better to play with a top Russian team: with Zenit, Spartak, CSKA or someone else.
Just why was it necessary to mock the Bruneians like that? How will they come home and look their families in the eyes? Aren’t you ashamed to play such matches? Not a match, but some kind of nonsense.”
Dmitry Guberniev, presenter and commentator at Match TV
“To be proud of such records is not to respect yourself. I think this Brunei would be beaten by any team not only in the RPL, but also in the second and even third leagues,” Sport24 quotes Guberniev.
But in general, a pearl, from a football agent Dmitry Selyuk, which brings football players from Africa to clubs, if they can be called football players.
“I think that Karpin should have called Dziuba, and he would have scored. And there they start, whether it’s a record or not. Yes, a record. Everyone is trying for records. Ronaldo plays for records and Messi Same. It’s normal to have motivation.
When he is not allowed in this way, I am categorically against it. In this regard, I support Dziuba.
I am convinced that the RFU should remove Karpin from the national team for at least one game if it does not want to play Dzyuba. And let someone invite Artem to one match so that he can score against Brunei or Vietnam. The Vietnamese, poor fellows, ran out, they were right up to Dziuba’s navel, he would have scored about five without even moving…
Why then Loskova released for Lokomotiv so that he could also set some kind of record? This is normal, this is what people try for.
If you follow this logic, then you can, as “SP” suggested, and Kerzhakova put. To be honest.
And the long-term head of Soviet and then Russian football Vyacheslav Koloskov reacted harshly and, in principle, repeated the position of “SP”.
— Is Dzyuba needed in the national team? Do you think the team is for records, or what? If you call Artem, then Kerzhakov also needs to be played in half and find out everything! And one more thing Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan it is necessary to declare for the national team so that he sets a Guinness world record by entering the field at 98 years old. Do we want to turn the team into a circus? We are serious people – we are called up to the national team for a reason!”, RB Sport quotes Koloskov.
Former Zenit player Vladislav Radimov and had a lot of fun.
— The ideal solution seems to be the following: Karpin calls Dzyuba to the national team, sends him to warm up and does not let him on the field. It seems to me that the situation is quite in the spirit of our fun football,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
Well, if Karpin were the same as Dzyuba, he would have done so… But he is different and treats his work professionally, despite his ambiguous character traits, statements, results in clubs. And the fact that we are playing with such opponents is not his fault, and certainly not the players’ fault.
After the match with Brunei, for which the team, by the way, earned points in the FIFA rankings, Karpin clearly noted:
— Do you think that football players are stupid and don’t understand who they beat? What are they kings? Of course not. It so happened that we won big today. There will be other players with Syria.
Let’s imagine that the dreams of all sorts of “experts”, “original jokers” and others will come true, and the Russian national team will play with the main squad against candidates for the Russian national team. Then with the Media League team. Next, with the national team of RPL legionnaires.
And then what? Next will still be Brunei and Syria in turn. Well, maybe once again Belarus or Serbia. This is inevitable in the current situation. As Valery Karpin sometimes likes to say: “Well, so?”…
On November 19, the Russian team will play against a team from Syria in Volgograd. The match will take place at the Volgograd Arena stadium and will begin at 19:30 Moscow time. This will be the end of the national team’s season. And we will wait for teams of a different level to come to us. Sooner or later it will happen.
By the way, during the match with the Syrians, the stadium in Volgograd will be renamed “Stalingrad Arena”. And that’s right.
