Russia's EM application beyond satire

The international spell engages in almost all Russians. But Russian Russians creates a parallel universe with counter events - and applies to a football em.

The Moscow Luschniki Stadium fully filled, on the lawn intensive two-fighting with world footballer Robert Lewandowski - and finally with a victory against Poland of the penultimate step towards the winter World Cup in Qatar: At least the Russian wish imagination looked out. But instead, the Sbornaja remained in the play-offs to the World Cup only the audience role on the domestic couch. A fate that the footballers currently share with almost all Russian athletes.

But instead of accepting the international spell after the criminal war on Ukraine, Russian Russians with countereases and provocations is currently creating a kind of parallel universe. This summarized in the letter of intent to the application for the EM end laps 2028 or 2032.

"We know that our chances are now small. But if there is a chance, we should try it," said Alexander Djukov the English Telegraph. The situation is "very dynamic", the boss of the Russian Association RFS led, which is located at the same time in the Executive Committee of the European Football Union UEFA: "Now there is a negative trend that can change again."

With this point of view, he stands quite isolated and al1. "Beyond Satire" is this push, emphasized British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at "Sky Russians UK".

"It's extremely strange that they blam with something that is clearly convicted of failure," said the longtime British Association Boss David Bernstein. The former FIFA Vice President Jim Boyce demanded an "immediate" rejection of the application - and he could be heard. After the UEFA, following the exclusion of all Russian clubs and national teams, is now also a suspension of the association.

An application would not be possible in fact no longer possible. The Executive Committee is "in readiness" to convene "extraordinary meetings", the UEFA participated in SID request. It will be important to "re-evaluate the legal and factual situation and, if necessary, to make further decisions, also with regard to the interests of the Russian Football Association for the Orientation of the European Championship".

Off the football, Russia in Russians is already making his own reality anyway. Parallel to the figure skating World Cup, there is the purely Russian so-called Channel One Cup in Saransk as a counter event, which, among other things, the 15-year-old Wunderkind Kamila Walijewa returns to the ice after her dramatic crash at Olympia. Previously, after the exclusion from the Paralympics in Chanty-Mansijsk, his own winter Russians festival had been organized for people with physical disability.

If the counter events are also the internationally terminated Belaruses, who are happy to talk about World Championships. "We make us the world as you like," is apparently in Best Pippi-Langstall-Manier currently the motto in Russian Russians.