Lobanovsky’s football – good or bad?, Sakhavet, October 18, 2024 – Dynamo Kyiv from Shurik

I’ll tell you one story of the year, it seems, 97, as a starter. There was a match at the Republican – either with Lance, or with someone else in the Champions League. And so I go to the bus stop with my student pass in my pocket, hoping to make it in time for the match. And then a Dynamo bus turns onto Druzhby from the embankment – just in time for the game – beautiful in livery, the latest model with panoramic glass almost from the roof to the bumper, but probably not the same one that the Italians gave us for Zavarov in addition to 5 lamas .

And I see our Vasilich sitting right in front of this glass in the middle – so huge, in a blue tracksuit. He was not offended by his height, but he had already begun to gain a fair amount of weight.

I was taken aback by surprise. At first I thought maybe he was the one driving, but no – the small, puny driver was huddled somewhere below on the left.

In short, I don’t know how this chair was put there, on a collective farm or in stock, the spectacle was epoch-making – like the Teutons walking like pigs across Lake Peipus with their commander in front.

It seemed normal then. And as he got older, he began to wonder, where is Klopp sitting on the bus? And Pep? Something seems to be not in front of the windshield. Most likely, somewhere in front of the table with assistants they are drawing the opponent’s formation, or telling jokes to the players.

So for some reason, VVL adherents stubbornly ignore the claims that were made against it back in Soviet times. They say it was all the machinations of the Muscovite people.

Maybe it was, but this does not change the fact that the claims were justified. Lobanovsky really didn’t know how to play football. He knew how to win, occasionally. I managed to win a third-rate cup a couple of times. He knew how to appear in the Western press. But he didn’t know how to play football. In anti-football – yes, but in football – no.

In the West, his fame was not appreciated. And if Zavarov went to Juventus, then Lobanovsky went to a place where now they are no longer returning to the European champions. Isn’t this the most honest assessment of his competence?

You can write as many laudatory articles as you like. Now, for a fraction of a share, you can even order a letter to an American court from a terribly respected organization in order to get a visa and launder half a yard of stolen cash. True story. It’s not like there are any magazines there.

But it is difficult to deceive football – even with dubious publications, even with bags of money. You either know how to play football or you don’t. And the facts seem to indicate that we don’t know how to play football, as a colleague correctly noted in the next blog. And the reason for this is precisely those same notes that we have been praying so hard for for 3 decades. Our father turned out to be not a father at all, and all his scientific works turned out to be pseudo-scientific.

This was still barely noticeable while they were buying Latinos here in droves, and the championship somehow held on to them somehow, but as soon as they brought us back to reality, we saw our level and the value of these notes. Although she had been visible to many here for a long time.

So it’s time to stop sailing further on the waves of our Lysenkoism on Shurik, and we need to start learning to play again. Since higher powers did not give us a prophet in our homeland, it doesn’t matter – there are many of them in the world. You can always find someone to learn from.

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