After the euphoria over the victory over the Turkish team, unpleasant feelings flooded in. One wants to dive under a blanket, spit, and be indignant that Ukrainian football is once again being used by SOMEONE for personal purposes. The reason for this is one thing - an interview by the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Oleh Blokhin, which he gave after the game in Istanbul. In it, he no longer talks about the achievements of the blue-and-yellows on the shores of the Bosphorus, but mutters something about dedicating the Ukrainian team's win to Viktor Yanukovych...

- We dedicate this victory to our candidate Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych. A person who is the president of the National Olympic Committee, who does a lot for sports, - Blokhin.

Note, he dedicates it not to the Ukrainian fans, who waited a year for a worthy victory from him, but specifically to Yanukovych, who has done zero point zero tenths for Ukrainian football. Moreover, it gives the impression that Blokhin beat the Turks himself. With his words, Blokhin practically signs on behalf of the entire Ukrainian national football team. By the way, none of the players interfered in political games on the eve of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election. Blokhin, however, decided to please the Donetsk don.

And this is despite the fact that even Shevchenko, from whom an official statement in support of Yanukovych was also expected, quietly slipped away to Milan and distanced himself from statements in support of anyone.

Also in his briefly flowing interview, Oleh Blokhin says that he will give his vote for Yanukovych. Well, please - that is his right as a voter, but to sign on behalf of the entire team - that is at least unworthy and should not be done. Although Oleh Blokhin's political preferences are a separate topic. Blokhin in his parliamentary career was in the "Hromada" and "Batkivshchyna" parties, then switched to the communists, and later exchanged the position of coach of the Ukrainian national team and moved to the SDPU(o) party under the wing of Surkis. By the way, according to a report by "Ukrainska Pravda," the urgent recording of Blokhin's interview in support of Yanukovych took place precisely after a call from Surkis senior.

Of course, Blokhin, like the Klitschkos or Ruslan Ponomariov, has his own opinion on whom to vote for. But the Ukrainian national team is sacred, it is not even Dynamo Kyiv, which in 1998 joined the SDPU(O) with its full roster. And the colors of the Ukrainian team are not convertible currency with which Blokhin has begun his humiliating bargaining on the political arena.

And one more thing. After the victory over the Turks, almost all Ukrainian media showered Blokhin, as a coach, with compliments, and that is normal and right. True, as a person, Oleh Volodymyrovych will remain a puppet who, at Hryhorii Surkis's whistle, will do everything possible, even staining his honor and dignity. As for me, the person Oleh Blokhin no longer exists today; let only the wonderful footballer and, possibly, great coach remain in my memory.

Mykola Avramchuk