Fire of sports hatred: how foreigners are being bullied for communicating with Russian colleagues

Now he, like earlier players and coaches of the Estonian football team, found “guilty” in a meeting with the head coach of the Russian national team and “Rostov” Valery Krapin, is forced to publicly repent and stigmatize himself for this “tragic” oversight. Along the way, stating that “he fully supports the removal of Russians from international competitions.” Otherwise – the end of him as an athlete.

Saturday’s match of the 20th round of the French Ligue 1 between Marseille and Monaco, many fans were looking forward to. There were two clubs from the top of the standings. Marseille, in the event of a victory and a loss to Lance, could reach second place, giving the right to start in the Champions League from the group stage.

Monaco, coming fourth, in turn, is trying to climb higher in order to play next season not in the Europa League, but in the Champions League. The game turned out to be interesting, and its result was unexpected. In the first half of the first half, Marseille Veretou sent the ball into his own net, and at the beginning of the second half, Alexis Sanchez corrected the mistake of his teammate, making the score 1:1. As a result, the match ended in a draw, and the situation in the Ligue 1 standings, despite PSG’s misfire in the meeting with Reims, remained unchanged.

We could continue to discuss the ups and downs of football and analyze the games of French teams. And that would be really interesting. But unfortunately, a completely different topic got into the headlines after the Marseille-Monaco match.

After the final whistle, the Ukrainian striker of the Marseillais and (what a misfortune) of the Ukrainian national team Ruslan Malinovsky embraced the Russian midfielder Alexander Golovin from Monaco. The frame with this “terrible” act was broadcast on the match, when the players of both teams shook hands and thanked each other for a good game, leaving the field. Why terrible? Because now Malinovsky, along with his relatives, has to publicly apologize and repent for this “unforgivable sin.”

The Ukrainian media immediately called the behavior of Malinovsky, by the way, the best young player of the Ukrainian championship of the 2013/2014 season, strange and shocking. And on the pages of Ruslan on social networks, real chaos began to happen at all – Ukrainian fans cursed the poor football player with their last words and demanded that he be urgently mobilized.

Malinovsky began to apologize and apologized to self-humiliating statements.

It’s amazing how Malinovsky has not yet been remembered for his game at Atalanta, where he played more than one match with Russian football player Alexei Miranchuk.

As for Alexander Golovin, he, of course, is completely indifferent to Malinovsky’s apologies. “We don’t care about this at all, this applies only to Malinovsky. Does it look like bullshit? You yourself answered this question, ”said the agent of the Russian Alexander Klyuev to RIA Novosti Sport.

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A couple of years ago, it was even difficult to imagine such a situation. But today, unfortunately, it is becoming the norm. Western athletes are ready to simply bury their own fans in the ground if they even allow themselves to get close to our athletes.

In the first days of the new year, a loud scandal erupted in Estonian football. And all because on December 31 the head coach of Rostov and the Russian national team Valery Karpin, a native of the Estonian city of Narva, was at the same table with the assistant head coach of the Estonian national team Andres Oper and football players Konstantin Vasiliev (captain of the Estonian national team), Sergey Zenev , Sergey Pareiko, Artur Kotenko, Dmitry Kruglov, Evgeny Novikov, Alexander Dmitriev and Igor Morozov. A treacherous photo from a friendly dinner was posted on the social network by the former football player of the Estonian national team Andrey Stepanov.

Estonian fans were the first to attack their own players. “Relationships with high-ranking Russian football officials are unacceptable today. Despite the fact that this meeting was private and was not organized by them, as citizens of Estonia and representatives of the national team, they have a moral obligation to uphold the same values ​​that both the Estonian state and most of Europe stand for, ”the Estonian supporter association said. team MTU Jalgpallihaigla. And then they organized a vote to strip Vasiliev of the captain’s armband. This initiative was supported by the head coach of the Flora club, for which Vasiliev plays.

Moreover, the “gatherings” with Karpin outraged even the country’s Prime Minister Kaya Kallas. Which considered, no less, that this is a manifestation of soft power on the part of Russia and much more than just a meeting of friends in a bar.

“How can you get together like this and pretend that nothing is happening? Let’s continue to live as before? It’s impossible! Sport is an element of soft power that Russia uses. It’s not the same as arguing about something with a friend. In my opinion, this is not just a story about friends drinking beer in a bar,” Kallas told ERR and Radio4, overexcited.

It’s embarrassing to say, but in the end, even the poor players were forced to publicly apologize. More precisely, they were forced to do so by the Estonian Football Union.

This caused bewilderment for many honored veterans of Russian football.

“We have been living in some kind of surrealism for a long time. For me, this is incomprehensible. Karpin, a resident of the city of Narva, met with players whom he had met before, and today they are branded that he is the coach of the Russian national team. May God bless him and all those with whom he met. Idiocy of the highest level, ”Valery Viktorovich Ovchinnikov, who coached Karpin at the Tallinn Sport in the mid-80s of the last century, told RIA Novosti.

In Karpin himself, everything that happened also caused bewilderment.

“The first reaction is misunderstanding. Misunderstanding what is happening. And, probably, I can’t say anything more about this. There was a misunderstanding of what is happening now in our world. You know, I feel sorry for the guys more – the players of the Estonian national team or the people who are nearby. It turns out that I’m some kind of high-ranking representative … I always thought that I was a simple coach. And the guys who were at the dinner also thought that I was a coach and a former football player. For them, that’s the way it is. And for someone, it turns out that I am a high-ranking leader, ”the head coach of the Russian national team and Rostov commented on Match TV this unpleasant incident.

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Today we are all discussing the IOC initiative to return our athletes to international tournaments and the Olympics. Federations and sports associations are considering whether to remain within European borders or seek their fortune in Asia. But the problem is much deeper. It’s in people’s heads.

The Olympic champion of Turin and Sochi Victor An in South Korea was not appointed to the post of coach of the country’s leading club due to public discontent. According to Championship, in early January 2023, Ahn applied for the position of coach of the Seongnam city short track team, one of the strongest in the country and the basis of the Korean national team. However, on January 29, Seongnam City Hall officials said they had rejected Ahn’s application after an interview due to the mixed reaction from the local community.

French basketball player Thomas Ertel was expelled from the national team after he moved from Real Madrid to St. Petersburg Zenit.

The Finnish Ice Hockey Association has instructed players to ignore all offers from KHL clubs.

Fans of the Bulgarian “Levski” banned their players from playing friendly matches with Russian teams in the winter off-season, as the club wrote on its website on January 20.

The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) forgot about Alexander Bolshunov in voting for the best athlete of the year. “We forgot about him, although he did win three gold medals at the Olympics, I apologize about this. But this is in no way connected with politics, ”the head of this organization, Gianni Merlo, later justified himself in front of Match TV.

It has long been known that quantity always turns into quality. And every day there are more and more such examples of sports hatred for our sport.