Season Preview
How Do You Call Them?
By: Ivan |
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It’s the last post of season preview – to summarize previous and give you a bit more. Let’s dig into nicknames of Russian Premier League teams.
CSKA Moscow. They are Horses because their stadium was built on site of stables. They are The Army too – CSKA actually means Central Sports Club (Klub, heh) of Army.
Spartak [...]
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Tags: Amkar Perm, CSKA Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, FC Khimki, FC Moskva, FC Rostov, Krylya Sovetov Samara, Kuban Krasnodar, Lokomotiv Moscow, Luch-Energiya Vladivostok, Rubin Kazan, Russian Premier League, Saturn Ramenskoe, Season Preview, Spartak Moscow, Spartak Nalchik, Team News, Tom Tomsk, Zenit Saint PetersburgSeason Preview: CSKA Moscow. Overlords
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Location. It’s strange but the most successful Russian team of last 4 years hasn’t own home stadium. Jokes has it that CSKA must play at hippodrome – because it’s close to club office and team usually called Horses.
Team. Won 3 Premier League titles, 3 Russian Super Cups, 2 Russian Cups and UEFA Cup in 2005 [...]
Season Preview: Spartak Moscow. Volksteam
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Location. Spartak has a lot of fans not only in Moscow – they always were like Juventus in Italy. Every second man outside Moscow loves Spartak. The club was big throughout nineties and won 9 Premier League titles but didn’t gain much European success. Anyway “Spartak – champion!” is the most popular slogan among Russian [...]
Season Preview: Lokomotiv Moscow. Succession
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Location. Historically Moscow has 4 big clubs – Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA, Torpedo – that’s why sometimes Lokomotiv was described as “fifth wheel in Moscow cart”. But Loko was the first team that broke Spartak supremacy in Premier League.
Team. Stand on few Russian key players and coach Yuriy Semin. When he left club for national team, [...]
Season Preview: Zenit Saint Petersburg. Unity
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Location. Saint Petersburg usually called “cultural capital” opposite to nominee Moscow: that’s the key antagonism. Vlastimil Petrzela, Czech ex-coach of Zenit, once said “Zenit will never be a champion” that meant they wouldn’t be allowed to. But this season is good for breaking the Moscow conspiracy.
Team. Always playing in attacking mood and have greatest visual [...]
Tags: Alexander Kerzhakov, Andrey Arshavin, Russian Premier League, Season Preview, Team News, Zenit Saint PetersburgSeason Preview: Rubin Kazan. Sect
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Location. Kazan is a capital of Tatarstan Republic. It was a centre of criminal activity at the decline of USSR but two years ago city got very attractive look because of 1000th anniversary celebration. Kazan also wanted a great football team for present – and got it.
Team. Solid squad without big stars. When somebody begins [...]
Season Preview: FC Moskva. Artifact
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Location. Guess where? Yep, it’s Moscow. Capital of Russia has financial potential to host even half of Premier League’ teams. Moscow major Yuriy Luzhkov, who is a huge football and other sports fan (see picture), was a big man behind FC Moskva during some time.
Team. Till 2003 team was called Torpedo-ZIL aka Automobilists. Then they [...]
Season Preview: Luch-Energiya Vladivostok. Flyover
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Location. If looking from Moscow, Vladivostok is really on the edge of the world: 6500 km equals 9 hours flight. But it’s close to Japan – that’s why almost every car in town has right rudder.
Team. Has Tigers alias because Russian Far East is an areal of rare Ussurian tigers. Prefers to win at home: [...]
Season Preview: Tom Tomsk. Outland
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Location. Tomsk is placed in the heart of Siberia. But the pitch is good enough even in early spring – because it has a heating system. Stadium Trud always attends a great number of fans (including eternal one that pictured below).
Team. Came from First League two years ago. Mostly due to home wins, Tom finished [...]
Season Preview: Spartak Nalchik. Hillfolk
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Location. Nalchik hiding in between the Caucasus Mountains. Maybe that’s why Spartak’ fans use to throw stones to opponent’s supporters. Luckily that kind of behavior is just an exception. Usually they overfill the stadium and even sit on illumination masts.
Team. There is a kind of tradition that Premier League always has at least one Caucasus [...]
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