Yuran invented a new nickname for the referees RPL.

The world of football often intersects with animals. Many clubs have animals on their crests, from lions on the crests of Chelsea, Aston Villa, Lyon, Sporting, Bayer Leverkusen, Copenhagen, Brescia and Millwall. Puyol was nicknamed “poodle”, Messi was called “flea”, like many short Argentine players. Gattuso was called “rhinoceros” because the midfielder was assertive, and the shortened version of Gennaro’s name, Rino, is consonant with the English word for this animal.

Rabbits, giraffes, donkeys, ducks, mice and scorpions became symbols of famous footballers. If we remember the “pitbull”, then we see Davids, a Dutch midfielder who played with glasses. There are many “eagles” in football from Lisbon to Rome, there are “wolves” and “swans”. Football heraldry has its roots in conventional heraldry, where various animals were depicted on coats of arms. It’s inside RPL Krasnodar Bulls played against Peer NN. It is ironic that it was the animals who remembered coach Juran after the match.

Opossum

What’s wrong with possums? Apparently, Yuran believes that these animals symbolize cowardice. So he called the coach of Paris NN the referees of the match between Paris NN and Krasnodar. Even if we pay tribute to the strong-willed qualities of the fighting team from Nizhny Novgorod – they fought back from 0:2 and scored three goals against the favorite, did the referees really score four goals for the hosts? Absolutely not, so Yuran simply expressed his emotions, giving another famous quote, and the judges-a new totem animal:

They are afraid of everything. There was a second attack! what are you afraid of? The second one is yellow! Then football will rot. Look at the tablet! Possums!

By the way, Yuran himself had the nickname Barsik, which the football player accidentally invented for himself. One day, at lunch, a player jokingly asked the waitress to bring more vegetables for his “badger”, clearly indicating which organ, because parsley affects testosterone levels. The partners laughed and used the word to refer to Yuran himself. And now the angry leopard, after the defeat, came up with a nickname for the referees RPL – opossum.

Dolphin

If in England in a football conversation a footballer is mentioned, referred to by the word “rat”, then all the fans nuclear submarine understand what we are talking about. We do not appreciate this attitude, but Bruno Fernandes, the captain Manchester United, reputation as a provocateur, simulator and denouncer. Even the angry fans Manchester United The rodent sometimes comes to mind when describing a leader’s unscrupulous approach to achieving results. But Fernandes does not accept the comparison with Splinter, but Sobolev ridiculed his own simulations of him, because he wore a cap with a dolphin. If you ask who he is RPL a dolphin without a siren, then the Spartak striker will be the first to come to mind. Today the derby with Dinamo, we hope, will pass without the dives of Sobolev and all the other participants in the match. The dolphins have freedom and the footballers have fair football.

Goat

In one famous story, a voice from the loudspeakers of the Akhmata stadium called referee Vilkov a “goat”. The problem with this statement is in the context. In English-speaking countries, the word for “goat” is “goat”, the same as the abbreviation “greatest of all time”. That’s why they call, for example, the future co-owner of Inter from Miami. Messi is not offended if he is compared to a goat. But since prison and gang culture occupy a special place in Russian history – we will not go far, the gangster series about Kazan children’s gangs of the last century “The Boy’s Word” became a people’s favorite last year , it is not customary to call men animals that have horns. This is a clear insult. Therefore, one of Akhmat’s employees took the blame for the words of the person on the microphone, and Zenit’s coach Semak served a suspension for throwing a phrase at the referees with the word “goats”. One of the most popular curses against referees, this is how the president of Ural defined it.

Horse

U CSKA there is an alternative logo that looks cooler than their main official symbol. The horse head with the fiery mane is beautiful, because it is the symbol of the club. On the sidelines of the home matches of the Army team you can see the mascot – a horse with the number 1911. It was in this year that OLLS, the predecessors of CSKA. The Moscow club did not immediately accept the popular nickname, because it was originally invented by rivals with the aim of insulting. CSKA moved in the seventies to the stadium on Peschanaya Street, where the stables once stood, so they called the stadium first, and then its traditional visitors. But the horse is an excellent symbol, clearly better than those that rivals call the “Spartacists”, because they are not just called “meat”.

Spider and panther

In Russian football there is a champion who has been compared to a spider: he will conquer everyone with his long legs, or a panther with his elegant jumps from corner to corner. Of course we are talking about Yashin. Moreover, now they would not call him “black panther” or “black spider”, since in fact the Dynamo goalkeeper’s sweater was dark blue, and from the very beginning, and this was confirmed by Lev Ivanovich’s wife. But the nicknames remained because Yashin played with black and white TVs at the time, viewers saw his sweater very dark, so they nicknamed him “the black spider”.

There is often less harm in using animal comparisons than in stories like Ilyin and Mirzov. Arsenal winger Reziuan has claimed that the Ural striker used a chauvinistic insult against him. Now Vladimir plays for Akhmat and lives in Grozny, where he definitely does not call the people around him that. So entire forensic exams were ordered to figure it out. But there were no recordings that allowed them to read that very word on their lips. But everyone has heard of “coach”, this is the most famous insult in Russian football. Karpin has been calling the referee worse names recently, so possums are an easy emotional comparison. Furthermore, it is unlikely that Yuran will be punished, as the dictionary does not have a figurative meaning for the word “possum”, as in the case of “goat”.