This time I have good news for you.
The meeting of the executive committee of the RFU in the part where it was about the transition of the RFU from UEFA to the Asian Confederation, predictably ended in nothing.
Here, literally: “There will be another meeting on Asia.
I think that the leadership will instruct the executive committee to work out a solution ”(c).
Taking into account the fact that in the bird's bureaucratic language "instruction to work out a solution" is already a decision, let's hope that at least this time the bureaucracy will defeat stupidity.
In our wonderful land of sad autumn aspens, sometimes the opposite happens, but this time it seems to have passed.
Now let's try to clarify.
Everything is quite simple here, you just need to ask yourself an elementary question: cui prodest?
Openly and officially, our main “friends” in the West have long been insisting on our exclusion from UEFA for a long time: Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, of course, and other Sweden.
And, therefore, such an action by the RFU would obviously be beneficial to them.
And it can't help but worry.
This time.
It would also be objectively beneficial for some part of our sports officials and “near football people”, the least efficient and the most vocal: participation in tournaments not by UEFA, but by an objectively much weaker Asian confederation can help collect quite a serious set of prizes.
And it does not matter that these are victories "for the championship of the pumping station."
This is two.
Well, it would certainly be nice to “hang over the cabbage soup of Europe” for that part of the domestic Internet audience, which has recently been called “turbopatriotic”.
As a rule, these people don't give a damn about football itself as a great ball game with their feet: they play slightly different games.
Elite.
Football is a people's game.
Well, this audience doesn't care about "this stadium cattle" either.
Moreover, they historically do not like him and are a little afraid.
It would be objectively beneficial for these groups of people.
And more, in fact, no one.
And I’m not going to invent anything here, but I’ll just quote Svetlana Zhurova, who is not only a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, but also understands something in sports: “Let’s be honest, the fans and the players themselves, too, probably won’t like this change very much” (with).
As a matter of fact, everything.
Without a fan who “will not be interested”, football itself loses its meaning, this is the nature of a great game.
And the people in power in the RFU, and there people - for all their shortcomings - are hardened and experienced, they simply cannot help but understand this.
But they also cannot ignore the possibility of moving to Asia, only not in the short term, but at least in the medium term.
Therefore, if the catastrophe in the European economy, the inevitability of which the entire sane expert community on both sides of the ocean is already talking about, does take place, then it is not very clear whether UEFA will survive, and if it survives, in what form and condition?
That's when - then it will be really relevant.
In the meantime, "fans will not understand."
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.