In the history of the Russian (not Soviet) football, there was still one triumphal meeting. In 2008, the "worried team" team returned from the European Championship and arrived in Luzhniki. Then more than 2 thousand fans gathered near the big sports arena, and it seemed a real festival football. Then came out on the stage in the composition of the national team Igor Akinfeev, Yuri Zhirkov and Sergey Ignashevich probably could not even imagine that ten years later, about three tens of thousands would come to the Moscow fan zone, so that they should handle them again, despite the fact that medals with They will not be ...
Stanislav Cherchesov
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Of course, after 2008, they were waiting for ten years of critics, sometimes bordering hate. What words did not hear the footballers in their address after the unrequeturized world championship in South Africa, after the inklady Euro 2012, fail at the 2014 World Cup and the Neboda from the group at Euro 2016. They did not want to forgive misses and mistakes. Even not: the fans could have forgive many, if they saw the burning eyes of our players, the fight, passion, fire ... And they saw all this now. "My pride! My warriors! " - Artem Dzyuba on the plane from Sochi to Moscow made Selfie with each of the national team players and laid out in Instagram. Artem Dzyuba in front of the 11-meter shock series went to the center of the circle and shouted: "Guys! I love you! I am proud of you! Just calmly hammer. " He was not destined to beat the penalty - the main, Stanislav Cherchesov, replaced him back in the main time. And Artem Dzyuba cried in front of the camera after this offensive lesion, when all centimeters were fortunately twenty ... 20 centimeters, to which the ball Mario Fernandez deviated from the course.
But those who came to thanks to the football players on the Vorobyev Mountains, not a single bad word said neither about our Brazilian Russian, nor about Fedor Smolov, who wanted effectively in the penalty shootout of the Croatian goalkeeper, but Daniel Subashich read his trick. The arms applauded the same way as everyone, and Fernandez didn't barely stunned with approving and grateful cry - because if it were not for his accurate blow after alan Alan Dzagoev from the penalty area, then the hope would have died much earlier.
FIFA recognized the protection of the Russian national team as the best at the World Cup at this moment.
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More powerful support was except for Akinfeev, Juba and Ignashevich, who immediately after the game with Croatia said: "It was my last match." How are we now without you, Seryoga?!.
We tell them thanks. Not because they came out of the group, the Spaniards won and almost beat Croats. We are happy, because on the field we saw Lviv, who do not have such a collection of European cups, like the same Croats, not to mention the Spaniards. We saw those who can force the grass under their feels, saw those who do not get tired and continue to fight to the end. To grated corners, bruises, injuries. They saw those who never give up. We saw real champions. Champions of our hearts.