Football in Russia is steeper than hockey. Why is Dzuba right? – Football News

The debate continues after the jokes of Artem Dzyuba with the Russian president, who advised the attacker to change skates for the boots. For his sport, Ilya Kovalchuk, who on the air of TC "Russia 24", said directly – in our country of hockey – the sport № 1.

Football is played everywhere and in all weather and on all surfaces. Only the ball is needed – and nothing more. Only this football already wins against hockey. Skates, ice, stick, puck – not as big together, but even harder (and more expensive) than in football. And to play with friends, you also have to wait until winter.

The super accessibility of football is its main strength. Other sports, including hockey, are difficult something to counter that.

Six countries play hockey. Four others try to do it. The rest – laughter, dozens of Luxembourg and San Marino, who come to the world championships and fly there favorites 0:10.

In football, competition between countries is much higher. Now everyone can really beat everyone – except for rare dwarves. In hockey, the dwarfs are in the majority and they are useless. Because the sport is the elite. The winners of the world championships and the Olympic Games are the same, the favorites are known. While in football the favorite of yesterday can not enter the tournament next time or, at best, fly off the group.

It is clear that comparing 10,000 arenas and 50,000 stadiums is not very correct. But even the small hockey fields in "hockey" like Russia are not filled. A good team of Neftekhimik does not bring together four thousand people, just as Severstal is barely three and a half years old. Srednenko goes to hockey in Moscow (however, there are sometimes bursts). And only in St. Petersburg with Minsk is exhausted.

So when they say how we like hockey in the interior and how they despise football, it is not true. On football, they go either the same way, or much better – depending on the team and the city.

And most importantly – for the football team go abroad. Even at qualifying away matches, Russia has an active support sector. Not to mention big tournaments. And for the Olympic hockey games in Korea, this sector was brought to the detriment of the sponsors. Only playoffs involved independent supporters, then – most from Siberia and the Far East.

The hockey team discusses a few weeks in May and once every four years in February. Football is the same all year round. Only football can bring tens of thousands of people to the streets (as after Spain), hockey has made such an impact (on a much smaller scale), except in 2008, when they won the Canadiens in the final of the World Cup. And the victory at the Korean Olympics has generally been without mbad festivities.

Sorry, but in football, Russia now has at least 11 ultramodern stadiums, from which will go a big picture. "Tosno" with Kursk "Vanguard" in the final of the Russian Cup was shown as if the English teams play. Surroundings and landscape are of great importance. Football is provided by them for years to come.

Hockey also acquires new platforms, but somehow they are not impressive. 20 thousand palaces, as in the NHL, we still do not have one. But the gray ice in the emissions of Ufa, Magnitogorsk and Nizhnekamsk – is. In live, he certainly looks cool. On TV – no.