Author: Futbolgrad
Football Slave or Naïve-but-Willing Migrant? – Selling Dreams along the Silk Road
By David McArdle -
After a hurried team talk, rendered by the young coach in a style of Russian more akin to prison slang, Olawale Sunday joins me f ...
Yevhen Konoplyanka and the Banker from Dnipro
By Manuel Veth -
Yevhen Konoplyanka is perhaps the most sought after commodity in Ukrainian football. The ambidextrous winger, according to the You ...
Double Agents – Shakhtar Donetsk and the role of third-party ownership
By Manuel Veth -
Borussia Dortmund’s CEO Hans Joachim Watzke was visibly exhausted upon his return from Donetsk after he completed the signing of Ar ...
Zurab Khizanishvili – A Georgia Veteran in Search of a Century
By Alastair Watt -
Georgia’s second most capped player Zurab Khizanishvili recently returned to the former Soviet republic’s establishment club Dina ...
Post-Soviet Premier League XI
By Alastair Watt and Dougie Watt -
As the Soviet Union fell in the East, a new football project arose in the West which would transform English footb ...
World Cup Lessons: What Brazil 2014 could mean for Russia 2018
By Manuel Veth -
The World Cup 2014 in Brazil was hailed by some media outlets as the greatest tournament of all time. But while the action on the p ...
