Does publicly supported sports include the fact that a star player can go to a friend’s wedding party in the middle of the World Cup, asks journalist Jussi Paasi.
Did you leave? Top Raitanen to his friend’s wedding in the middle of the EC athletics championships?
Of course not. Would such a thing have even occurred to him – or to any athlete who participated in the Games? No.
Raitanen sent his wedding congratulations from Munich to his friend in a live TV broadcast. Finnish flag on shoulders. Athletics EC gold medalist. Raitanen was supposed to be at the wedding in the role of bestman. The wedding was missed for a reason that even the wedding couple Takuulla understood.
What would have been Jukka Jalonen the answer if the star striker of the Lions, who decided the World Cup gold at the home games in Tampere Sakari Manninenwould have suggested last May that “it’s okay, Jukka, if I celebrate my friend’s wedding during the World Cup and miss one match”?
The star striker of the Lady Lions Susanna Tapani missed the World Cup USA match on Saturday. According to Urheilu, the reason was that Tapani went to a friend’s wedding.
This seemed to suit the head coach of the Women’s Lions For Juuso Toivola.
– It is a personal matter and I will not comment further on it, Toivola commented.
What kind of value choice and what kind of message is it for the team, asked the reporter Sari Sirkkiand Toivola answered:
– It is an internal discussion in our team and we have had it and we stand behind it.
Is not real. “We stand behind it.”
Eli Toivola thinks that it is in every way acceptable for the coach, the team and the player himself, that the star striker goes to the party in the middle of the games and then comes back at some point, and nothing out of the ordinary happened.
– I’m carefully pissing on my own cereal here, said one hockey influencer when I discussed the case with him.
Can you say it any more aptly? How did the other players of the team feel on Saturday, losing to the USA with a dull 1-6 count, when they knew that Tapani was celebrating at the same time?
First of all, it’s about respect – or the lack of it – for your teammates. As anyone who has played team sports knows, it is essential that the individual always puts the interest of the team first. Now Toivola and Tapani sent the completely opposite message.
It’s also about valuing sports on a personal level. Susanna Tapani has enjoyed the athlete grant awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, like many of her teammates. The purpose of the grant is to secure the athlete’s financial conditions for professional sports.
Is it part of publicly supported professional sports to go to a friend’s wedding party in the middle of the world championships?
It’s confusing, downright shameful, that Toivola and Tapani didn’t know the right answer to that question.
If Naisleijonat wants to one day seriously challenge the great countries of the sport, Canada and the USA, the coach and star player must learn to act in the manner required by professional sports.
Without that appreciation and respect, there is no point in waiting. Not to mention success.