Author: Futbolgrad

The Shakhtar Donetsk Code
By Manuel Veth -
This year’s Champions League Round of 16 paired two of the most interesting football projects of Europe against each other. On the o ...

Dnipropetrovsk – An Aberdeen Away Day
By Dougie Watt -Dnipropetrovsk, October 2007. In the UEFA Cup 1st round draw there were some formidable outfits in the hat but my main concern was ...

Uzbekistan – The World Cup’s First ‘Stan?
By David McArdle -
With three games remaining, in a group that would make many American political scientists more than a little nervous, Uzbekistan h ...

New Unified League – Back to the Soviet Union?
By Manuel Veth -
In the last couple of months the spectre of a new football league has haunted Europe: a new Unified League that would bring together ...

Eduard Streltsov – The Russian Pele
By Alastair Watt -
Outside the former Soviet Union, the name Eduard Streltsov means little to anyone other than scholars of the beautiful game. Few h ...

Georgian Football’s Grounds for Concern
By George Mirashvili -
If the announcement that the 2015 UEFA Super Cup was to be held in Tbilisi’s Mikheil Meskhi stadium (below) raised a few eyebr ...