Pokers in Russian Football History
Poker in football is a type of hat-trick, when a player scores four goals in single match. Read more
Football and Poker
Footballers often play various card games, in hotels during pre-season training sessions, in planes during lasting flights. No wonder, a few football players have some connections with poker world. Read more
Russian Football Union
Russian Football Union is the governing body of Russian football. The HQ is based in Moscow in the newly build “House of Football”. Read more
Russian Premier League season 2009
The 2009 Russian Premier League season has come to its end. Rubin (Kazan) are the new old champions, Khimki and Kuban are heading to First division, CSKA have a new coach, Lokomotiv have a new old coach and Zenit hire a new star-coach. Read more
Russian clubs’ financial status
FC Zenit
Owners: Gazprom (over 95% of stock), a number of Saint Petersburg-based companies
Budget: 100 mln $ (2008), 90 mln $ (2009)
Shirt logo (commercial): Gazprom Read more
FC Moscow
FC Moscow is a Russian football club based in Moscow. With 27 points they are currently holding the third position in Russian Premier League table. Rubin (Kazan), current champion, are toping the table with 28 points. Read more
Arshavin says
During his stay in Russia Arshavin has talked to a number of local sports media. Here are some of the ideas. Read more
Russian youth teams
U-21 team
Russian U-21 team currently plays unstable and hasn’t yet established itself as one of youth football leading teams. Many of the players don’t have enough practice in their clubs, which negatively influences the team’s potential. Recently they lost to Faroe Islands U-21 team (0:1). Read more
Zvezda 2005
Zvezda 2005 (Perm) is currently the best women’s football club in Russia. They are also ranked 3 in women’s football clubs ranking (compiled by www.womensworldfootball.com). Zvezda 2005 is also the only Russian club in the ranking. Read more
What’s wrong with Zenit?
So far Zenit (Saint Petersburg) are doing not so well in the title chase. Zenit has played 10 games in Russian Premier League (20 games are left to play). With 15 points Zenit occupies 7th place in the table. Read more