When it's necessary to escape, Russia always turns out to be the champion of the world
Regardless of the suspicions accompanying her zeal on the football field, the Russian team continues to overcome the mileage, like no other team at this World Cup, write the journalists of the French newspaper Le Parisien Vincent Gauthier, Victor Alexander and Orlan Zhezekel.
118 km against Saudi Arabia, 115 km against Egypt ... These figures show the total distance that the players of the Russian team ran during their two first matches, which is why at the beginning of the championship there were those who raised their eyebrows in surprise, journalists recall.
And how, after this team thought better of it? By no means. In a match with Spain, the Russians again took the opportunity to measure the pitch along and across the field with a score of 145 km, which they ran for 120 minutes, that is, about 109 km in 90 minutes. These efforts were not in vain. Russia won the right on Saturday in a home match with Croatia to challenge the place in the quarterfinals, the article said.
However interesting the total distance that the team ran was, it is not the only indicator that revealed the outstanding sport achievements of Russia. Let's take another criterion - the number of meters that each player ran on average per minute. In this category, the Russians are again world champions, with a mileage of 112.8 m. They are followed by Serbia, Australia, Germany and Denmark, according to the authors of the article.
Many Russian players occupy the top positions in the ranking of the most running players. Six of them figure in the top twenty. With an average of 125 meters in average per minute, Golovin, Kuzyaev and Gazinsky even entered the top five, following the Australian Irwin and the Senegalese N'Doye, the article said.
