Category: Features
The challenges of winter football in Ukraine
Manuel Veth -
The challenges of winter football in Ukraine have brought have led to discussions about switching the calendar to the old Soviet spring ...
Balkan League – Do not believe the media hype
Miloš Marković -
“Once cut into pieces an apple can never be whole again”
Rough translation of the Serbian colloquial proverb offers a descriptive i ...
Russia’s World Cup: Stadium and Urban Development in Ekaterinburg
Sven Daniel Wolfe -
The World Cup is not just about the clashes between national teams on the pitch. These battles are the highlight, of course, and ...
Russia’s 2018 World Cup – A Conversation Beyond Sport
Sven Daniel Wolfe -
Sven Daniel Wolfe from the University of Zürich is looking ahead to some of the issues Russia could be facing when the county is ...
Fred – Shakhtar Donetsk’s unsung hero
Manuel Veth -
Shakhtar Donetsk’s defensive midfielder Frederico Rodrigues Santos, better known as Fred, has been very much the unsung hero of a stell ...
Alan Dzagoev – The boy from Beslan is looking for a new direction
Manuel Veth -
Alan Dzagoev was a major topic in this week’s marathon World Football Index Futbolgrad Podcast session. There have been plenty of rumou ...