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Hiddink to sue Russia
Published: 31 May, 2010, 12:21
Edited: 19 June, 2010, 10:08
Guus Hiddink is ready to sue the Russian Football Union as he has not been paid since January, the coach’s agent Cees van Nieuwenhuizen said.
Send him home! He lost the qualifiers to the World Cup: no results, no money! That's how it should work. I think Russia is always very "naife" toward things coming from the West. Get a grip and start to be tough! Poor performance means you loose your your paycheck. He's got plenty of money already in any case. I totally agree with "Meslin", cannot have a "foreign legion" person at the top. Please get real and set forth strict rules; Russia, wake up and stop being foreigner-adict :-)
If Russia wants to be part of the wider world, it has to adopt at least the minimal standards of the wider world. Foreigners, from Russia's neighbours to its football coach, are utterly unimpressed with Russia expecting them all to live by Russian standards.
Yes it can be hard for Westerners to live by the standards of integrity, the Westerners just use the model of fine words and evil deeds, a rip off and litigate culture. Its going to be a long road to educate them about honouring deals. When they just work on the model of exploiting deals to the point of breach of contract or gross negligence. Look at the Western Big Polluter, a great example. It gets a licence deal, has decision making based on minimising costs, regardless of risk and then you have it, a licence exploited through lack of integrity to the point where the ordinary US citizen, not the 'little people' as the Swedish think, have to pick up the real cost to their livlihoods. Russians don't accept this lack of integrity, lack of accounatbility, lack of responsibility, we don't accept moving all commercial failures, be that banks or oil companies to the balance sheets of the nations citizens. Instead we go after the leaders and make them accountable; shock horror, not cricket that! It is contary to the western privileged model of the financial elite, that are untouchable and the ordinary people pick up the bill. However, it is in line with normal contract law, where both parties have to honour the contract! and where good faith should be the moto, something the west nether understands the meaning of or is prepared to apply, becuase of its dishonest greedy, hegemonic nature.
Recently I criticized The Russian Foot-ball Federation for its love toward foreign coaches. Those guys come only for the money. There is absolutely no sincerity toward the Russian people involved in those kind of bargain. You had to be really dumb to accept a coach who was also paid by a big club owned by a Russian billionaire and an other country national team. It will not be any different with Russia new Dutch coach, unless very strict rules are implemented: Be a full time coach; Not coaching or advising any other team, Insure that Russia will be qualified for the next European national teams Cup and improve the Russian coaching capability. Sorry but I am not positive about the present set-up and will bet that Russia live the the exact same situation. Peter The Great era is long gone and Abramovich cannot be compared with that great man! Sincerely...Jean-Claude Meslin