Well-known journalist Nikolai Nesenyuk commented on the latest matches of the domestic Ukrainian football calendar on his Facebook.
Mykola Nesenyuk
Every time the players and coaches of Ukrainian football teams complain about fatigue, which did not allow them to play properly on the third or fourth day after the previous match, I remember the players and coaches of foreign teams who constantly play official matches two, and sometimes three times a week and they never complain about it. Interestingly, Ukrainian football players playing in the championships of England, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and other countries, for some reason, do not overwork there either.
What is the problem? Are the players and coaches from our championship, let’s say, lying, explaining their poor performance by fatigue? Not without this, of course, who would refuse an extra excuse before the owner is dissatisfied with the result? But it’s not that simple. Because I heard complaints about “fatigue” from our coaches and football players back in those distant years, when the current masters of the polyurethane ball were not yet born, just like the parents of many of them. And only recently I formulated the reason for this phenomenon, which I will introduce to you.
First, listen to the words of our players, coaches, commentators, and observers. When talking about football, they almost literally use the phrases “fight for the ball”, “win the battle on horseback”, “don’t give in in the fight” and so on ad infinitum. This is the reason for their fatigue. Because in the same championship of England or Spain, football players play (!!!) with a ball, but in our championship they “fight” for this ball. And not only in the national championship. Our football players begin to fight from a very early age, winning or not winning in children’s and youth competitions. In fact, they are very good at playing football, they have the appropriate natural abilities and technical skills. But on the football field they are required not to play, but to fight! You won’t fight, you won’t crash into your opponent, trip him, grab him with your hands, step on your feet with spikes – tomorrow someone else will fight instead of you! That’s the whole secret! The running and fighting inherent in our version of football takes much more energy than playing ball. That is why our football players do not have enough, like their foreign colleagues, two days to recover.
What is interesting is that it is impossible in principle to correct this situation. Because they did not play football, but not only the coaches of the current football players fought, but also the coaches of these coaches, and even earlier, the coaches of the coaches of modern coaches. This is how it has always been with us! Because our football players never, not a hundred years ago, when the communist government created “demonstration teams of masters,” nor now, when these teams are called “professional football clubs,” played for spectators, created a spectacle. Their success, and therefore money and everything else, depended solely on the result, for which they had been fighting each other for a hundred years instead of playing football. And individual exceptions in the form of particularly talented football players who we had at different times and tried to play football only confirm this rule.
Mykola Nesenyuk
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2023-09-29 14:54:00
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