Hryhoriy Kozlovskyi, the president of Rukh, made a statement regarding the selection of the broadcaster for the matches of the Ukrainian championship.
Grigory Kozlovsky (photo: fcrukh.com)"I watched Viktor Vatsk's program. Without looking at his criticism, I have to admit that he is absolutely right. I agree that the "Football" channels were not as bad as they were made out to be. Now, when the channel is gone, we have seen the true level of Ukrainian football, and therefore, learned its true market value. I will agree with Watzka that we have teams that do not have their own training base or football school. And there are those who train next to Kurma. I understand that with such clubs we will not be offered a lot of money. But these clubs, not having their own stadium, play in the UPL and say that $94,000 for broadcasting rights is a godsend. Perhaps this is the case for them, and this money is enough to close the lease of the training field in the village of Kukuyevo.
In this story, the name of one of the presidents immediately comes to mind, who compensates for the shortcomings of his club with another "virtue" of his, namely, cronyism to Premier League officials. I would like to tell this person to stop. Doesn't your tongue hurt? He has already licked the heads of the Premier League so much that those poor people can't go to the toilet. I will not name this person's last name, you will guess who I mean. And if you have already guessed, write his last name in the comments in the "Movement" Telegram channel. Among these people, we will raffle off a game t-shirt of our club.
If we, the clubs and the presidents, continue to behave like happy dogs and wag our tails every time a gnawed bone is thrown in our direction, then we will be treated that way. That will be our price. So, maybe, before drooling over the first, best piece of meat, look at yourself from the side? Do something to begin with, do something for Ukrainian football, and then tell the story!
I can say for "Movement". We built the Academy, which is among the top ten in Ukraine, we promote Ukrainian football in Europe. For example, the COTIF international tournament in Spain, to which our juniors recently went, cost the club 70,000 euros. And there are 50 such tournaments a year where our students play. Now do you understand why the "Movement" is not satisfied with $ 94 thousand from the broadcaster? But this money is not even enough to feed all our children at the Academy! I'm not talking about any other expenses. Yes, our core team isn't grabbing stars from the sky yet, but it's just getting started. Rome was also not built in one day. Let it be better if 10 teams play in the UPL, but those that know their worth. And they don't just play, they also build football, and they don't wait for handouts from the lord's table until a bone falls to gnaw it and suck it," Kozlovsky said in a comment to the Rukh press service.
