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Season Preview: Krylya Sovetov Samara. Gang
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Location. Samara is situated on the banks of Volga river. Samara’ fans probably were the greatest supporters in Russia, especially in 2004 when Krylya Sovetov finished third in Premier League. Stadium Metallurg was always overcrowded – it’s a pity that times passed by.
Team. Krylya Sovetov are the only non-Moscow team which played through all 15 [...]
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Season Preview: Saturn Ramenskoe. Afterworld
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Location. Ramenskoe is a not-so-big city but it hosts a strongest team in Moscow region. Saturn has support of general-colonel governor Gromov and club chief manager Vorontsov who becomes a president of Russian Premier League. Efforts to prove that Moscow region can compete with Moscow.
Team. Last season Saturn was the friendliest team – they drawn [...]
Champions Title Means No Need to Score
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CSKA Moscow, Premier League champions and Russian Cup’ last winners, lost in 5th round. Krylya Sovetov Samara beat them 2:0. Spartak Moscow, eternal rival of CSKA, progressed to next round and in some sense won over their concurrent.
Few days ago the only argument for Spartak was that they were relegated from UEFA Cup two hours [...]
Season Preview: FC Rostov. Slack
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Location. Rostov-upon-Don is a big city on Seattle latitude – but we called it South. Rostov is well known after its criminal authorities, delicious lobsters and agricultural trucks. That’s why team’s first name was Tractor.
Team. Eight years ago was Rostov’ moment of glory – club played with Juventus in Intertoto Cup (see photo). Last years [...]
Season Preview: Amkar Perm. Chill
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Location. Perm is situated near Ural mountains, 1500 km east and little north from Moscow. No wonder it’s very cold and no grass here in March (look at photo below) so Amkar usually starts season in Moscow on synthetic fields.
Team. Amkar may seems a quite poetic name for a football team but actually it [...]
Season Preview: Dynamo Moscow. Hoodoo
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Location. Dynamo has stadium with same name in Moscow but also use to play home matches at Luzhniki arena (which will host Champions League final in 2008). And team can’t win at Luzhniki for 25 years! Sure they hate this field but Moscow has many teams and not enough stadiums so they can’t avoid this [...]
Season Preview: Kuban Krasnodar. Granary
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Location. Kuban is a river flows through Krasnodar city. Region produces agricultural goods: tons of grain, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and so on. No wonder if their fans go Watford supporters way and start bringing vegs to away matches. Their fanzine is called Watermelon Workshop. And fansite is named Green Mile after movie with Tom Hanks.
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Farewell UEFA Cup
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Both Moscow teams lost in first round of UEFA Cup play-off.
CSKA was frustrated by Maccabi Haifa’ fast goal. First leg was 0:0 so all the Giner’s horses all the Giner’s men couldn’t put the ball in net again. (Giner is the President and Horses is the team’ alias)
Spartak was limp in Vigo and let Spaniards [...]
Season Preview: FC Khimki. Village
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Location. Khimki is Moscow suburb full of egg-boxes (behind the stadium on photo below). The main sightseeing is IKEA mega store so you can imagine what kind of place is it. Stadium New Khimki holds 3000 persons. Countryside, eh? You got it!
Team. Promoted from First league last season – thanks to good team spirit [...]
Map of Russian Football
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Russian Premier League contains 16 clubs and there are 17 days left to start. So tomorrow I’ll began to introduce you the teams – one by one. Now I want you to take a look on the map of Russian football.
The Moscow region is dense but it provides more interest for teams that are outside [...]
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