Articles tagged with "russian premier league"
Russian league takes #6 spot
By Ian Rose | February 21st, 2008As predicted last week, the Russian Premier League has taken its place as the sixth-ranked league in Europe. Their current UEFA coefficient of 40.75, added to by Spartak Moscow's 2-0 win over Marseille today, puts them just over Romania and into the cove
Russia's next win will be massive
By Ian Rose | February 15th, 2008Now that the UEFA Cup is back, and this blog along with it, I wanted to take a look at the UEFA league coefficients, that awkward and confusing system that makes it possible for England to send four teams to the Champions League while the likes of Scotlan
Know Your Minnows: Rubin Kazan
By Ian Rose | July 12th, 2007In the last installment of "Know Your Minnows", we took a look at Rapid Vienna of Austria. This week, we'll focus on the team that Rapid is likely to play in the next round of the Intertoto Cup, FC Rubin Kazan of Russia. I've taken a look at a lot of
Dynamo Moscow did it 4 out of 12. And the secret is...
By Ivan | April 19th, 2007Dynamo Moscow isn't a lucky team. Really. Last years they were victim of fertilizer tycoon Alexey Fedorychev who bought a lot of foreign players and forgot about a good coach to make them play together. So they happily escaped the relegation. They've star
Week 4: Elephant and Kitten scored goals, Lokomotiv jumped the track
By Ivan | April 10th, 2007Sorry for some space in Russian blog last week but here we come again. There are still news to read and goals to watch. Enjoy. Good weekend Alexander Prudnikov Spartak teenager from B-squad was late substitute and became a winning goal scorer. Prud
Week 3: Story of Three Derbies and the Broken Jaw
By Ivan | April 2nd, 2007Good Weekend Spartak Moscow Won the very principal away derby against Zenit. That was really Saint Petersburg versus Moscow clash and Muscovites suddenly crushed home side by three goals in first half. Juicy was the fact that first was scored by Spart
Meet Sunflower Seeds or Things To Do in Rostov When You're a Football Fan
By Ivan | March 23rd, 2007At last I got the perfect illustration for popular action among Russian supporters. There are nor banners neither fireworks. There aren't drums. Don't even think of football chants. Face the reality: sunflower seeds. Look at these people eating seeds
Week 2: Sad Tune for Mozart (not composer, just midfielder)
By Ivan | March 19th, 2007Good weekend Leonid Slutskiy Coach of FC Moscow was the triumphant of principal "manager derby" vs Tom Tomsk (read more here). FC Moscow lost their best striker but Slutskiy bet on young forward Roman Adamov and won: he scored twice. Lucky "Russian Mo
It's Good To See Your Team One Position Higher
By Ivan | March 17th, 2007Spartak Moscow can't make up their mind to losing status of the greatest Russian team to CSKA. Club's glorious history force them to win, win and win. They can't even stand the fourth place in table after the first game and changed it to third! Spartak's
How Do You Call Them?
By Ivan | March 12th, 2007It'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 –
Week 1: Argentinian Score at Far East (much closer to his country than Moscow)
By Ivan | March 12th, 2007It has started! Past weekend was first of new Russian Premier League season. So here are its heroes and villains. Good weekend FC Moskva Won the very first match of Premier League at Far East against Luch-Energiya. Vladivostok fans cleaned the pitc
Season Preview: CSKA Moscow. Overlords
By Ivan | March 11th, 2007Location. 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,
Season Preview: Spartak Moscow. Volksteam
By Ivan | March 11th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: Lokomotiv Moscow. Succession
By Ivan | March 9th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: Zenit Saint Petersburg. Unity
By Ivan | March 9th, 2007Location. 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 se
It's Time to Grab Spades
By Ivan | March 7th, 2007Massive snowfalls on Russian Far East covered everything - including Dynamo stadium in Vladivostok. Luch-Energiya will play there on Saturday against FC Moskva in Premier League opener. Now it's impossible because snow banks are higher than meter. But
Season Preview: Rubin Kazan. Sect
By Ivan | March 7th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: FC Moskva. Artifact
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. 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 som
Season Preview: Luch-Energiya Vladivostok. Flyover
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. 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 are
Season Preview: Tom Tomsk. Outland
By Ivan | March 2nd, 2007Location. 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 Fi
Season Preview: Spartak Nalchik. Hillfolk
By Ivan | March 1st, 2007Location. 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 mas
Meet Miss Saturn! (Or it would be better to talk about transfers?)
By Ivan | March 1st, 2007Miss Saturn contest is over. Here's the winner - Anastasia Maslova. Yeah, I understand your disappointment. Especially of this awkward plate in her hand. Don't forget that I told you they are Aliens. But soon I found out that it is just compensation. Miss
Season Preview: Krylya Sovetov Samara. Gang
By Ivan | February 28th, 2007Location. 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 t
Season Preview: Saturn Ramenskoe. Afterworld
By Ivan | February 27th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: FC Rostov. Slack
By Ivan | February 26th, 2007Location. 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 wa
Season Preview: Amkar Perm. Chill
By Ivan | February 25th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: Dynamo Moscow. Hoodoo
By Ivan | February 24th, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: Kuban Krasnodar. Granary
By Ivan | February 23rd, 2007Location. 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
Season Preview: FC Khimki. Village
By Ivan | February 22nd, 2007Location. 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. Pro
Map of Russian Football
By Ivan | February 21st, 2007Russian 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 m
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