http://www.footballinrussia.com Russian football Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:27:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. The Champion Rubin (Kazan) are the Champions again. Rubin ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/russian-premier-league-season-2009.html 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 Gazprom, Russian largest energy company, finances most of the club’s spending. Gazprom can afford to spend any money so Zenit can afford any transfers and expenses. Anyway ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/russian-clubs-financial-status.html 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. FC Moscow are often called “the citizens” and “the caps” (Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov usually ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/fc-moscow.html During his stay in Russia Arshavin has talked to a number of local sports media. Here are some of the ideas. On life in England “The hardest thing was to adapt English principles. I was born in Saint Peterborough and has lived here for 27 years. England much varies from Russia, everything ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/national-team/arshavin-says.html 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). Coaching staff Igor Kolyvanov is Russian U-21 ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/national-team/russian-youth-teams.html 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. History Zvezda 2005 was founded in 2005 and won their first home titles in 2007, winning ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/zvezda-2005.html 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. Rubin (Kazan) stand first with 21 points. CSKA (Moscow), Krylia Sovetov ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-zenit.html A number of Russian football people have their own blogs, in the following article we'll take a look on the most notable. Alexander Tarhanov Tarhanov, soviet football player and Russian football coach, has a blog devoted to transfers and player management. In the recent posts he examines Spartak (Moscow) squad. Anatoliy Byshovets Anatoliy Byshovets ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/russian-football-in-blogs.html 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. Rubin (Kazan) Rubin are the current Russian Premier League champions. With solid financial backing (thanks to local authorities) and experienced ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/russian-premier-league-2009-title-challengers.html 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. Manager Zico was one of the best players in ... http://www.footballinrussia.com/premier-league/russian-premier-league-2009-title-challengers-cska.html