“I continued to go to training. They talked to me as if nothing had happened, but I never got into the application for the match.” The story of a Russian footballer, a pupil of Dynamo Valery Saramutin, who formally plays for the American club Austin Bold, but actually stopped playing on the field. You might think that this is a lack of dedication or poor physical training. After all, they usually say that the coach knows best. But the Austin legionnaire himself thinks otherwise. Say, he is completely ready to play from whistle to whistle, but lost his place in the team due to the Black Lives Matter movement.
As it turned out, before one of the games back in August, when Western sports, and not only sports, were overwhelmed by the fashion of kneeling on one knee in support of the black population of the United States, the Russian refused to follow the trend, which allegedly showed disrespect to his teammates.
Thus, he sentenced himself to a place not even on the bench, but in a deep reserve. And here is an eloquent quote: “What will happen to me next, I do not know.” And she is not only suitable for the case of Saramutin.
To avoid scandals, they were relegated to the background. Valery Saramutin understands: most likely, he will not return to the field in this team. And you can find a lot of reasons to keep on the bench. There is only one truth: in America today it is customary before you play football, you must first remember slavery. Proactively.
“You cannot fight for freedom by violent methods. If you want to put your hand to your heart or to insult, or to express your feelings in honor of someone, these external attributes are not necessary. The main thing is what you have inside. But these are all the theatrical performances that are now famous for America, all this is in favor of the poor, “says sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev.
Sit on a knee on the field, and a word cannot be said against blacks. Valery Saramutin is not the only one who faced problems in the team because of the color of his skin. In that match at the end of August, the club captain argued with the coaching staff. He considered that they were deliberately bringing African Americans onto the field. At a time when the strongest players were vegetating on the bench. Only the Russian footballer took the side of the team leader. As a result, both are suspended. Question: where is sport, and where is politics?
“If we all sit in the dressing room in the team and say:” Guys, everything is starting, today we have to kneel down, “maybe someone will say:” I will not get up, “for example. Then he should say this in the dressing room. what to remove, to exclude later because of this, I think that this is not entirely correct. Because this is already outside of sport, “says ex-midfielder of the Russian national team Alexander Mostovoy.
Saramutin is not the first to not fall to his knees in front of the BLM move. Russian Formula 1 pilot Daniil Kvyat is also against this ritual. True, no one built intrigues for him. And Kvyat explained his position so clearly that it is impossible to dispute it. Russians kneel before their homeland, flag and god.
“When a person on the football field is forced to do what he does not want, and this does not concern sports, or ethical norms, but simply someone’s desire, and for this then be removed from football activities, deprived of earnings, deprived of professional skills? it seems that they are already crossing all boundaries, “says Andrei Sozin, a member of the ethics committee of the Russian Football Union.
The movement, which is promoted as equality in rights, and not in deed, has turned into pogroms and impunity. Black Lives Matter has become for some an inviolability, for others – a fear that can only be dealt with obediently, clung to the ground. And the rules are simple. Either you are part of the crowd, or the new America does not need you. And this is the best case. In fact, you will be oppressed.
“Kneeling has become an absolute norm for those Americans who consider themselves guilty of constant slavery, oppression of the black population. But one thing must be understood, that there are certain morals, and there is what is called big politics. Now America is becoming a politically engaged country when a person ceases to have any meaning, “says Sergei Sudakov, an American political scientist and professor at the Academy of Military Sciences.
Sport, and football in particular, must send the right messages to its fans, its audience. One has only to remember the famous slogan “Say no to racism”. Such an appeal blurred the lines between people of various nationalities. But the way a Russian footballer is being oppressed today has exactly the opposite effect. It turns out that skin color is still important.
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