Russia blinded by the light

Fabio Capello’s side hardly lit up the tournament with two draws and a defeat before tumbling out. And the former England manager was feeling particularly prickly after the 1-1 draw with Algeria that led to their elimination. But rather than focus on the lack of illuminating football played by his team as the reason for their exit, it was a dazzling light in the stands directed at his goalkeeper that bothered him. “There are pictures. You can see that in the footage. This not an excuse, it is a fact. There was a laser. I have never come up with excuses to get by in my entire life,” growled Capello. Asked if his complaints deflected attention from the performance of Algeria, Capello responded: “Never, never. I would never do that. You have to listen to when I speak so that I don’t have to repeat the same things。”

Boateng lashes out at lack of Princely treatment

Kevin-Prince Boateng, not a man who is shy of speaking his mind, channelled his inner Roy Keane in Brazil, getting himself booted out of the squad for criticising the Ghanaian Federation for treating the players like normal people. “It was a nightmare from the first day of preparation until the end. I never thought that you could organise a World Cup preparation and a World Cup that badly: hotels, flights – everything in an amateurish way. Our flight from Miami to Brazil took 12 hours. We were in economy class, packed. The legs hurt. For a pro, that’s an insult. Meanwhile, our president sat in business class with his wife and his two kids. In Brazil the people responsible managed to lose my luggage. I did not have my football boots for days, no tapes, nothing. It was a disaster。” And it got worse for the poor lad. “Prior to the match against the US we slept in a sleazy hotel. This one can never have been recommended by Fifa. The rooms were wet. I had to change my room because it was like a swimming pool. There was water dripping from the ceiling。”

Herrera blows his top

Mexico’s coach, Miguel Herrera, doesn’t need much to get him excited – his emotional explosions at the World Cup making him an internet star. So when his team was knocked out by two goals in the closing minutes of the last-16 tie with Holland – one a dubious penalty after an Arjen Robben tumble – he wasn’t going to go quietly. “We ended up losing because he whistled a penalty that did not exist. Out of the four matches here in all of them the refereeing was disastrous. Robben did three dives and he should have been cautioned. You should caution a guy who is trying to cheat, and then if Robben did it again he would be sent off. And why did Fifa choose a referee from the same confederation as Holland instead of one from South America, Asia or Africa? The doubtful decisions were always against us. We have to say it in capital letters, in three matches we had horrible refereeing. The man with the whistle knocked us. I want the referee committee to take a look and that the referee goes home just like us。”

Bosnia blame the ‘enemies’ back home

The Bosnia defender Emir Spahic turned the mixed zone into a very awkward place when he started finger-pointing at journalists from back home who had taken aim at his side after their elimination. “Criticism is part of our job. You have it all the time; all your life. And we must accept criticism because we didn’t play so well,” he said. “But some other things became a little bit too personal; the criticism was too heavy. And I didn’t expect that from my own people but obviously I have a lot of enemies. For those people, history means nothing. I’m hurt by this. But I’m proud because I’m Bosnian. I’m proud because of my people. We showed the world what Bosnian football is all about and I’m proud of that fact. They [the Bosnian media] cannot change that. They cannot take that away。”

Keshi bashes the ‘bias’

Having watched his Nigeria side left bruised by some rough stuff from France and then have a goal disallowed during the 2-0 defeat in the last-16 match, Stephen Keshi wasn’t going to slip out of the door quietly. “I am not happy with the officiating because [Ogenyi] Onazi, on two occasions, he had a very bad tackle and nothing was done by the referee,” he growled. “I think the referee was just … for me, I think he was biased. This is the first time I will speak about the referee in my life as a coach but it wasn’t good. If you look at the goal we scored, I don’t think there was any infringement. The referee is a human being, bound to make some mistakes, but a lot of mistakes is questionable. I am not happy about it but he’s the man who decides whatever goes on the pitch。”

Croatia lost in translation

Vedran Corluka was pre-emptive with his parting shot, all but giving up the ghost after the 3-1 defeat to Brazil in the opening match in which the Japanese referee, Yuichi Nishimura, made some highly contentious decisions. “I have never seen a referee in a World Cup that doesn’t speak English. He was trying to speak to the players in Japanese. It is ridiculous,” he fumed. “If this continues then no one should play against Brazil. We should just give them the World Cup and everyone can go home。” Croatia did go home, pretty quickly, after a win and two losses did for their hopes – but not before they were photographed naked at the hotel pool, prompting them to blank the media. “How would you feel if someone took naked pictures of you?” the Croatia coach Niko Kovac asked. “They are adamant that they won’t speak to you lot any more。”

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亮光閃瞎俄羅斯

法比奧·卡佩羅的球隊(俄羅斯)兩平一負(fù)，世界杯出局，黯然回家。1 比1戰(zhàn)平阿爾及利亞，慘遭淘汰，為此，卡佩羅(前英格蘭主帥)很生氣，卻沒有更多地去關(guān)注球隊為什么會慘遭淘汰，賽后指出門將阿金費耶夫的眼睛被看臺上的一束激光燈干擾才導(dǎo)致進球。還有在現(xiàn)場的比賽圖片中，在錄像中你可以看到，我不是在為輸球找借口，這是事實。的確有一道激光。“我一生很少找借口。”卡佩羅咆哮道。被問道是否他的吐槽是為了否認(rèn)對手的出色表現(xiàn) ，卡佩羅予以否認(rèn)。

斥責(zé)待遇不好，博阿滕被開除

博阿滕，敢于站出來說話，后來因為與加納國家隊內(nèi)部人士不和，批評加納足協(xié)給的待遇不行，質(zhì)疑FIFA獎金被貪污，被開除國家隊。“球隊從一開始到比賽結(jié)束都像噩夢一樣。我從來沒想過球隊的世界杯準(zhǔn)備以及世界杯比賽能這么糟糕。”酒店、航班，所有的一切都非常業(yè)余。“我們從邁阿密來巴西花了12個小時，我們擠在經(jīng)濟艙，這對于腿還受傷的球員來說簡直是侮辱，我們的教練卻跟他的妻子和孩子坐在商務(wù)艙。在巴西的時候工作人員還把我的行李搞丟了，一段時間內(nèi)我都沒有球鞋，什么都沒有，這簡直是災(zāi)難。”與美國隊的賽前，我們住著的酒店很差，國際足聯(lián)不可能會提供給我們潮濕的房間，我必須去換一下我的房間，因為它簡直就像一個游泳池，從天花板上還在滴水。”博阿滕補充道。

主教練埃雷拉抗議裁判

當(dāng)球隊在最后時刻連丟兩球，墨西哥主教練米格爾-埃雷拉再也坐不住了 ，“我們輸了比賽是因為最后一個點球是無中生有的。在這里的四場比賽，每一場都有存在爭議的判罰。羅本摔了三次，他應(yīng)該受到黃牌警告。我們應(yīng)該注意那些作弊的家伙。那場比賽為什么國際足聯(lián)選擇歐洲的裁判而不是一個來自南美，亞洲或非洲的裁判?我們總是受困于有爭議的判罰，我必須強調(diào)，三場比賽，我們都遇到了可怕的裁判，吹口哨的人沒有站在我們這一邊，我想讓裁判委員會看看，讓裁判跟我們一樣，回家!”

波黑指責(zé)自己國家的“敵人”

波黑的記者吐槽后衛(wèi)斯帕西奇的糟糕表現(xiàn)導(dǎo)致了球隊淘汰出局，斯帕西奇予以回?fù)�，使自己處在了一個尷尬的境地。“自我批評是也我們工作的一部分，而你們所有的時間都在批評，批評成為了你們生活的全部。確實，我們必須接受批評，因為我們踢得不好。”他說。“但是有些報道和批評太私人了，批評地過重了，我沒有想到在自己國家，還有這么多敵人。對這些人來說，歷史意味著什么?聽到某些批評，我很氣憤，很傷心。但我很自豪，因為我是波黑人。我為有這么多支持我們的球迷而感到自豪。我們向全世界，展示了波黑足球，這也是我所驕傲的。他們(波黑媒體)的評判無法改變什么。他們也不能那樣做。”

尼日利亞主教練凱希吐槽裁判歧視

法國2比0擊敗了尼日利亞，尼日利亞教練，斯蒂芬-凱希并不想這樣就淘汰回家，“我不滿意裁判，奧納奇兩次被放倒，但在裁判眼中好像什么事也沒發(fā)生一樣。“我認(rèn)為裁判太…他歧視我們。這是我執(zhí)教生涯第一次吐槽裁判，但是事實上裁判的做法的確不厚道。如果你看了我們的進球，我不認(rèn)為存在任何有爭議的地方，雖然裁判也是人，多多少少也會犯一些錯誤，但很多錯誤是有問題的。對于判罰，我不滿意，但沒辦法裁判畢竟是場上做決定的人。

克羅地亞輸在翻譯上

科爾盧卡先發(fā)制人，馬塞洛的烏龍球，幫助克羅地亞開場就領(lǐng)先比分，但在揭幕戰(zhàn)的最后3比1不敵東道主巴西。日本裁判，西村雄一做出了一些極具爭議的判罰。“我從來沒有見過世界杯賽場上的裁判不講英語，這個裁判還講日語，極其搞笑。”“如果這種趨勢延續(xù)下去，沒有哪個球隊愿意對陣巴西。我們應(yīng)該把大力神杯直接給他們，然后每個人都可以回家洗洗睡了。克羅地亞最后的確回家了，一勝兩負(fù)，但在此之前，他們在酒店的泳池，還被人拍了裸照。讓他們的偉岸身軀在媒體和報刊上一覽無余。“如果有人拍你的裸照，你會怎么想?”克羅地亞主教練反問道。“他們很固執(zhí)，不會與你們多說什么。”