Red-white forward Alexander Sobolev will miss four the next match of the team in the RPL, and another participant in the high-profile scandal, CSKA defender Willian Rocha, was fully acquitted. The Brazilian's red card was canceled, but was Sobolev punished enough? The main referee of the match Sergey Karasev sent off both players for unsportsmanlike behavior. If everything is obvious with Sobolev's actions, then the removal of the Brazilian caused complete bewilderment among many. Rocha simply repeated Alexander's gesture, trying to draw the attention of the judges to what had happened.
The behavior of the Russian striker was condemned, it seems, by everyone. As Sobolev was just not called. The former owner of Spartak, Leonid Fedun, picked up diplomatic words addressed to the player, but at the same time he was clearly dissatisfied with Alexander's actions. . I would fine him after the game, but other people decide. Sobolev played a whole match, but does his childhood play in one place, «Fedun said.
What can I say, even if the head coach of Spartak Guillermo Abascal said that such behavior of his ward is absolutely unacceptable, adding that the player will definitely be punished.
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«What Sobolev did does not correspond to the values that is in «Spartacus». If this happens again, the person will not play. First of all, this is respect, this is education. This is not tennis, not athletics, where every man is for himself. This is the second time this has happened, Martins has also been punished for his behavior in the past. If this is repeated, they will watch football on the bench,” said the Spanish coach of the “red-whites”.
What the FTC RFSS decided after the match Sobolev apologized to the fans and the team, although it was clear that it would be extremely difficult to avoid a long disqualification. It is curious that Alexander arrived at the meeting of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) by metro. Perhaps it was more convenient and faster for him, or perhaps he wanted to show that he was a simple guy from the people who made mistakes. Didn't help.
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"FTC decided to disqualify Sobolev for four matches. Sobolev was at the meeting. He has since apologized for his actions. "Spartacus" condemned Sobolev's behavior. The FTC believes that this act is cynical. Sobolev has a systematic disciplinary violations,» the head of the RFU FTC, Artur Grigoryants, told reporters.
At the same time, Alexander did not apologize directly to Rosha. The Brazilian himself was canceled the red card. It was logical and expected, no one thought to argue with this.
«Rosha was sent off in the match by mistake. The FTC decided to correct the mistake of the referees and cancel the red card. The footballer explained why he made such a gesture. He does not speak Russian or English, so he began to show with gestures that Sobolev showed him,» said Grigoryants.
Reputation ruined forever? But Sobolev's punishment is another matter. Based on the totality of the actions that the Spartak forward has been noted for the last time, there was a feeling that the four-match disqualification was not so severe yet. Let's not forget that Alexander took an active part in the fight with the Zenit players, for which he was suspended for six games.
Moreover, Sport has a video in which the Spartak striker provokes the CSKA defender a few minutes before the deletion episode.
To all appearances, Sobolev will have to seriously reconsider his actions during the suspension in order to somehow change the attitude of the fans, head coach, team and judges towards him.