Russia vents anger at team, Advocaat
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June 19, 2012, Tuesday
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RUSSIAN media yesterday spared no mercy for national team manager Dick Advocaat and his players after a "disgraceful" defeat against Greece to send them out of the Euro 2012championships.
"You broke our hearts," wrote the Tvoi Den tabloid, accompanying its article with a cartoon of two devils stewing the whole team and the Dutchman Advocaat in a cauldron.
Popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets printed a short but succinct message to newly returned players on its masthead - "Bastards!!!" - while Sovetsky Sport daily went for a pithy: "Waste of space".
"30,000 Russian fans wept, swore and stood silent as their team left the field. Without thanking them or apologizing," wrote Sovetsky Sport, noting that only Andrei Arshavin applauded the fans at the end.
Tvoi Den focused its anger on Advocaat, who was due to step down after Euro 2012 and coach top Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. "Go to the devil, Advocaat!" its front page read, with a picture of the manager forlornly watching the game.
It also accused players of lacking the will to win, saying they were "thinking not about the football prestige of their motherland but about their bonuses".
"The Russian team just destroyed the faith of a huge number of our fans," former Soviet Union player Valery Maslov told Noviye Izvestiya daily.
Earlier, UEFA fined the Russian football association another 30,000 euros (US$37,800) for "improper conduct" by fans at a European Championship match against Poland.
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