The European Championship in Germany began. Polish dog's itch got into it. The groups have already been drawn. In any places on the continent, the atmosphere of the coming vacation is already given, but not in our country. There's quite a few reasons.
Probably the easiest thing to say is that it's hard to get utilized to football erstwhile there's a war going on right next to it, but that doesn't even bother the fighting Ukraine. There, the people hide from mobilization, but footballers or supporters of those social classes who managed to escape from the war do not matter. So no, let's not put everything on politics.
Or has the Euro lost its reputation? possibly so. Firstly, 24 teams have been present in it since 2016, and for the layman the rules of qualification from the group are already unclear. After all, you can not win any match in the group, but become a champion, just like Portugal in the 2016 mentioned. 1 way out of a four-team group is 3rd place, another way out. Unfortunately, the tournament format is highly unattractive and of concern about transparency. Here's another thing: failure of level. Given the number of federations in UEFA, almost half of Europe goes to the Euro. So what's to celebrate? Can we inactive call the participants “members of an elite group”? Exactly. And 1 more aspect of the war related to this, namely the exclusion of Russia's representation. There is something apparent about us, the punishment for "unprovoked aggression", but it is not necessarily the way we perceive it everywhere, especially since it is always the unusual chance that only those countries (Euro 1992 and the exclusion of Yugoslavia) who fight the alleged collective West, never the another way around.
And yet the decisive thing seems to be different. We just don't like our representation anymore. Elimination was a painful lesson for a squad fan. They were smitten with embarrassments. Wunderwaffe Fernando Santos, who treated this work more like a bridge pension and the rescue of Michael Probraż, but who may have more opponents than the experts. The Polish Pucharek with Cracova, however, is most likely a small small, and in greater part by a neat representation, specified as erstwhile he brought a plant pot to the press conference, to show journalists that "not immediately" something will grow. Well, the Belted watered and even exaggerated to another, better ground, and inactive ended in marasm. However, the eliminations went through. In a tragic style, through barracks (added to let individual from Cinderellas to enter the tournament, alternatively than representing a large country specified as Poland) after being tired of buns with Wales, but succeeded. What's next?
No 1 especially has hope for a good result. In the erstwhile championships, however, something was fought for. In the group we went to, all point will actually be a success. It's hard for a nation to number off hours to be inaugurated in specified predictions.
And most importantly, we can't look at any representatives anymore. And not even the point that Wojciech Szczęsny or Robert Lewandowski are football weak. The thing is, we're little and little looking at them as athletes. Happy is associated more with car brands he comes to the group, and Lewandowski with hopeless texts thrown to the media, in which he exposes only his own deficiency of responsibility, completely unsuited to the function of captain of the representation. There are less and less balls in the ball, and basing the squad all the time on the assembled discs in the form of the above, the effect will no longer have effect. There is no Lewandowski, who saves us a match against Montenegro with sports rage, and there is no longer a fortunate criminal recaller after a criminal. There are media characters, alternatively exhausting than forming patterns.
This is besides something that we are missing, i.e. we have ceased to require specified people to present attitudes that could make them a model for young adepts of football. Buńczczowy Wojtek Szczęsny and moving distant from work Robert Lewandowski, are not athletes that we should show young people and say, "Do as this Lord, you will go far." specified a individual was Kuba Błaszczykowski at 1 time, the candidate for specified individual is (was?) Krzysztof Friday, but the future in this respect is not very good. Well, I hope I have the pleasance of making a mistake this time and pleasantly surprise with the attitude of Poles on the field.
Tomasz Jankowski
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Think Poland, No. 25-26 (16-23.2024)
