Russian football in blogs
A number of Russian football people have their own blogs, in the following article we’ll take a look on the most notable. Read more
Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers
While CSKA (Moscow) and Zenit (Saint Petersburg) are clearly the favorites of the race for the Russian Premier League title, a number of other clubs may achieve a major success this season. Read more
Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers: CSKA
CSKA (Moscow)
CSKA, established in 1911, is one of the best football clubs in Russia. CSKA holds 3 Russian Premier League titles, 4 Russian Cups and 4 Russian Super Cups. The recent Super Cup has been already won with a new manager, Zico. Read more
Russian Premier League 2009 title challengers: Zenit
Zenit (Saint Petersburg)
FC Zenit, founded in 1925, is one of the best teams in Russia. Since 2007 Zenit dominates Russian football, it has gathered a great bunch of players, including a number of remarkable international players. Since the departure of Andrei Arshavin Zenit is still trying to align its attacking game. Read more
USSR team managers
USSR team has been managed by a number of brilliant managers, most of them were successful enough to enter the World Cup or European Championship with the team. Read more
Russian team in 2009: what’s new?
Russian team played two competitive games, facing Azerbaijan and Lichtenstein. Russia gained two shaggy victories, scoring just 3 goals against the weakest opponents in the group. But the most important thing is that Russia collected 6 points and still occupies second place in the group. Read more
Laudrup’s hit
by Alexander Ushakov specially for FOOTBALLINRUSSIA.COM
The very depth of 2008 brought huge change into FC Spartak management. Valery Karpin replaced Sergey Shavlo as Spartak CEO while hard-edged and decisive Stanislav Cherchesov stepped off the job and after lasting negotiations Michael Laudrup became a new Spartak manager. Read more
USSR National Football Team
USSR national football team was one of the strongest football teams in Europe. Since 1958 USSR has qualified for 7 World Cups, failing to qualify in 1974 and 1978. Read more
Soviet Top League Champions: TOP 4 Soviet clubs
Soviet Top League was a league, toping USSR football league system. The competition formed as Soviet Top League in 1936, before that clubs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus a competed in RSFSR Championship. Initially 2 titles could be won each year (in spring and in autumn). Read more
Out and In: Russian Premier League transfers
Well, European transfer window is shut. Russian clubs still can buy or sell players, but until summer there will be no transfers with clubs from major European leagues involved. Read more