NOT BAD, BUT AGAIN NOT GOOD
Eghishe Metsarenc

LRAGIR.AM
13:41:29 – 30/03/2009

The Armenian national football team failed to win again. Unlike the
previous matches Armenia played in the qualifying competition for the
2010 World Cup, this time the competitor of Armenia was a weaker team –
the national team of Estonia. Everyone is probable to know that the
match on March 28 in "Republic" stadium of Yerevan scored 2:2. In
addition that Armenia evaded the defeat through a very disputable
goal. But, as one of the spectators of the football match said "not
bad"; moreover that the "not bad" idea is becoming a slow but firm
governmental propaganda in Armenia.

For example, in Armenia much advertisement was done in connection with
the movie "Taxi "Not Bad" produced by Sharm Holding. The film is about
Yerevan, but, in fact, it propagates the "not bad" policy. In other
words, "not bad we exit. Why do you complain of everything"? The
soundtrack of the film which is written and performed by the rock
group "Reincarnatsia" (Reincarnation) is being broadcasted by the
radio and TV very often. Live and be happy that it is "not bad",
do not think of wishing more, moreover of your rights and freedom,
of having an opinion, of expressing your opinion, fair elections,
equality of rights, and of other things. "Not bad we live"; In other
words, thank God that you live. The football players, under the newly
shaped influence, "thanked God" that they did not lose but played 2:2-
"not bad".

In this case, it is useless to analyze the Armenia-Estonia match. Of
course, the coach is to blame. Our defeats are the result of his
mistakes first of all, and his very first mistake is probably the
fact that he agreed to head the Armenian national team. The following
mistakes, as it is said, are matter of techniques. And, football
has again been approved to be a matter of thinking. If the thinking
"not bad" is being propagated in the country, so there is no need to
expect something at the football field, because this field is a part
of the state.

Blaming the players or the coach for the football failures means
to escape from the axis problem – thinking. "Not bad" the coaches
and the players exist as they can be blamed for everything. But they
are only consequences of this atmosphere which is being shaped in the
country. And what is being shaped in the country: for example, the head
of the football federation gets involved in a process of redistribution
of property, which is more that the economy, more than politics, which
is in the sphere of dignity and human relations. In this field there
are no spheres, and specialists, professions, professional success but
"only dullness". "But it is not bad" the dullness exists.

EGHISHE METSARENC

P.S. On April 1, the Armenian national football team will again meet
the team of Estonia, this time in Estonia. Is April 1 the reason
or maybe March 28, but I do not believe our team will be able to
win. Although, the victory is not ruled out either, "not bad" nothing
is ruled out.