The famous journalist Mykola Nesenyuk commented on the start of the championship of Ukraine on his Facebook.
Mykola NesenyukThe football championship, which started in Ukraine on the eve of Independence Day, has so far failed to impress either with the level of play, spectacle, or anything else. It was time to expect something else from the competitions, which take place without spectators and have, in my opinion, an exclusively political motivation — to show the world that we are alive, playing football and will soon defeat the enemy!
Competitors also understand this. But, unfortunately, not all. In the first week after the start of the new football season, I had to read a whole series of complaints about the lack of so-called "legionaires" or, more simply, foreigners, in the Ukrainian teams. It's not a problem when "observers" write about it, whose buttocks have long and permanently fused with the sofa, and they see the world almost exclusively on the monitor screen. When this is done by qualified trainers, it becomes alarming - do they not understand what world they are in?
Objectively, the current drop in the level of play of Ukrainian teams, from where everyone left who had nowhere to go, can play a fundamentally positive role. The place of those who are only looking for money in football can be replaced by football players who want to grow and develop, and who have received such an opportunity at the present moment. Coaches should be happy about it, not the other way around! They have to say that now there is a chance to give way to young talents, who will be followed by others, seeing that they have a place to play and a place to progress!
Nope! Ukrainian coaches, not all, but quite a few, start whining and "expressing hope" that they will be brought third-rate Brazilians, Africans, Croatians... Why? This is where the main secret of the decay of Ukrainian football is hidden!
It is well known that all Ukrainian "football clubs" without exception, however "oligarchic", however "popular", however "professional", however "amateur", actually exist solely thanks to the goodwill of wealthy people who finance these "clubs" from their own pockets Most of these wealthy people pay money not directly, but through middlemen, whose names are well known to everyone in Ukrainian football. It is these people who cannot live without bringing at least one foreigner on the landlord's money! Because a foreigner, or as they say, a "legionaire", is a completely different money! And with this money it is much easier to get an extra piece of butter for your piece of bread! One Brazilian automatically feeds at least three "football people" involved in bringing him to the Ukrainian football team!
That is why well-known trainers cannot eat until foreigners are brought to them! Even now, when the war. Paying foreigners to play in empty Ukrainian stadiums is at least inappropriate, if not immoral! But we have what we have! Meet muddy football characters on your TV screens! And do not lose hope that someone will think about the growth of Ukrainian football players, and not about their own piece of butter!
Mykola Nesenyuk
