This is embarrassing piece; Russia did not lose a war; it lost a game of soccer! No people are more heroic in the real battlefields than the Russians.

In sports like in many other sectors of life, Psychology is very important. In individual sport, one must consider that aspect on the basic of only one person's characteer and ability to communicate and receive advices. In team' sports, it is more difficult, because you need to make the same individual study for each member (18 to 20 or more for a professional football team). This explain why coaching an internationl team of super-stars and coaching a national team are two differents subjects. Consequently, to succeed in sport, you need the physical habilities, the mental attitude and the environment (parents, club, coaching, medias, promotion etc.). For instance, in France, the environment' sector is so bad (often, thanks to the federations) that we are the World's champion to destroy a brillant junior career. The main disease being the national "phony frime" (the examples are numerous). Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin