Is Russia the weakest host of a world of all time?

With the first Russian-Sudian Arab match, a signal is given for the launch of the World Football Championship. The hopes of fans and the head of state, Putin, are high. There is a danger that they will be very disappointed. The goal is clear.

“Tschertschesow, Russian national coach. “We can only fight Germany in the semifinals or finals. If we get there I'll be the happiest man in the world.” Of course, it takes a lot of imagination anyway to imagine the Russian team of the World Cup reaching its final stage. Much more could happen that the first rounds of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay will become a fire test. Given the recently shown performance performances, there have been increased voices that say the team could be called the weakest host team of all time.

How big is the distance to world champions, the team will see him in the first match. The score 0:1 in the match with Argentina was barely achieved in the fall, while in March, the score of 0:3 and France 1:3 marked a clear loss. A total of five match-free games for 54-year-old Tschertschesow and his Srbanja have been played.

Many countries where Tschertschesnow must work
Given the problems on his team, the coach is not to envy. Three of his best guys had knee injuries. With Georgi Dschikiya and Wictor Wassin, the entire midfield defense is missing. In March, the attack by Alexander Cocorin was injured in the Sankt Petersburg and RB Leipzig match.

Negative news has also had two former professional national players: Instead of contributing to the sport on the Russian team Roman Neustädter and Konstantin Rausch were caught after a rumor of Brazilian newspapers after being at the disco and sentenced by the League. The two professionals born in the Soviet Union who came to Germany as German-German immigrants have received Russian citizenship and are thus allowed to play for Srbanja.

In general, Tschertschesnow's team lacks talent. No Russian national player has been active in any European club. The team has grown old, talented young people to replace are missing. Their quest for talents and encouragement is preparing them for later. In addition, the lack of talent is the result of a legionary scheme in the Russian Football League. Five Russian players for each team are the law, so they shouldn't be exposed to the competition fight. A change of this will be made after the world championship.

You're looking at history, you know.
Tschertschessow, former porter on Dresden's Dynamo team, took up his post after the disappointing results at EURO 2016 in France. The Russian team remained the last in the pre-end round. One fate the Russian national has so far had in all participating in the World Champions in 1994, 2002 and 2014. The only positive surprise has been the fourth country in EURO 2008. The predecessor, the National Union of Soviets, has celebrated great successes. 1960 The Soviet team took the title champion in the European Championship, six years later fourth place at the 1966 World Championship in England. In 1988 he lost his final game with the Netherlands at the Evupian Championship.

Given the difficult situation, Tschertschsow tries to have only one tactic, which he himself does not like very much. He's actually an expert on offensive games, and many times he's made his team active with three attackers. After losing last with France, he said: “in the game with Brazil we played offensively in the second half- and made three goals. This time we played offensively from the start, and three goals made the opposers. This shows that we have problems if we play offensive against such players.” He only wants to strengthen protection for the World Championship games.

Is this enough to hold the post? There have been a total of nine players since 1992, of whom none but Oleg Romanzew has stayed in office for more than two years. If the Russian team were disqualified in the first games, this would not be a surprise. It wouldn't even be a premiere. In 2010 the host of the World Championship, South Africa was squaalfico with the first three matches. DW