More recently, Pontus Wernbloom was a legend for CSKA fans. But the Swedish football player managed in one day to erase everything for which the “red-blues” loved him. What did he say to the Swedish press?
“When I moved to CSKA, the situation in the world was completely different from what it is today. But if I offended anyone by this, I humbly apologize. Be that as it may, I had to play in the Russian army club,” Aftonbladet quotes Wernbloom.
Wernbloom moved to the Moscow club in January 2012 and spent six years at CSKA. In his first match for the army team at a crowded Luzhniki Stadium, he equalized the score in the Champions League game against Real Madrid in extra time. He responded to Cristiano Ronaldo's goal and immediately made the Red-Blues fans fall in love with him. Now he hints that the decision to move to Russia was influenced by vodka.
“In the end, we agreed on all the details, finished the caviar,” the midfielder said about the progress of negotiations with CSKA. “The same black caviar that we saw on TV. Then we drank vodka, which was not the one that my friends and I bought among Polish truck drivers in their youth, and she also played a role.”
To Russia as if to deathAccording to him, his wife took the message about moving to Russia as news about the death of a loved one.
“I promised my wife that we would never, under any circumstances, move to Russia, but making promises is quite easy. When I told my wife that we would have to live in Moscow for several years, she took it in much the same way as people who received death notice.”
Wernbloom also inherited from the club infrastructure. The CSKA base, located in Vatutinki, left not the best memories in the Swede’s memory.
“Because we played a lot of matches, we always slept at the club base the day before the game. The base was a couple of miles from Moscow and was a couple of yellow brick buildings, which were certainly luxurious and stylish during the Bolshevik era in the early 20th century, but not so good for a team with Champions League ambitions. We had our own cook, she obeyed our slightest whim. Her food was bland and not very colorful. But I'm not picky about food. It tasted much better than everything. what I could cook myself,” noted the former football player.
Hid from anger? Wernbloom’s words about military school cadets who came to the CSKA base and spoke to the football players look even wilder. The Swede even allowed himself to send them to the next world.
“”I remembered one moment when representatives of the army school appeared at the base. Guys of different ages, without a playful boyish look, who sang in chorus for us, the players. I asked our translator who they were. It turned out that these were children of cruel parents whom They were taken into custody and sent to military school. I can only assume that all the boys are no longer alive today, they were sent on their last journey to the front.”
After the interview was published, Wernbloom began receiving offensive messages on social networks. Netizens called him a “clown” and a “coward.” Later, the Swede closed his account on the social network X and disabled the ability to comment on Instagram (the activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are prohibited in Russia as extremist).
“I was happy in CSKA!” But back in 2020 Wernbloom's rhetoric was completely different.
“CSKA is a great place to continue my career. When I signed the contract, I was scared that, how can I put it, the West doesn’t always speak well of Russia. Therefore, I had concerns, but when I arrived, almost immediately But I changed my point of view. I was happy at CSKA the whole time. If the guys settle down like I did, then it’s impossible not to love the club,” the Swede emphasized in an interview.
By the way, he’s not the only one. from the army, who turned from a legend into a traitor for the fans. I immediately remembered the example of Deividas Semberas.
2012: “I spent more than ten years at CSKA and I can safely say that these were the happiest years of my life.”
Ten years later, the attitude towards Russia changed dramatically. “For me, as a person who can understand the situation, can analyze and see another point of view, it was easier. The same cannot be said about Russians. Their education is low, they only watch their own television, and do not know other languages.”
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