Category: Features
Ukrainian Ultras – Where Two Wings Collide
By Manuel Veth -
Despite the match taking place in the middle of a working day, Karpaty fans could be seen throughout Kiev. On the marshrutka ride t ...
Goodbye, Lenin! – Spartak’s Farewell to the Luzhniki
By Yusha Kozakiewicz -
Ancient Rome had its Colosseum; Constantinople, its Hippodrome; and fittingly, Moscow, which by the 1950s had for five centuri ...
Kakha Kaladze – Defender or Pretender?
By Alastair Watt -
Georgian football was left to ponder life without Kakha Kaladze, after its medal-laden former captain said farewell to the sport o ...
Offside – Football in Exile in Nagorno-Karabakh
Offside - Football in Exile in Nagorno-Karabakh -
The geopolitical conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is a forgotten one. Even as the war raged ...
Football in Belarus – Ultras Versus the Authoritarian Regime
By Vadzim Bylina (Вадзім Быліна) -
The Belarus Football Federation (BFF) recently made all Belarusian Premier League (or Vysheyshaya Liga) games avai ...
Arsenal Kyiv – Inventing the Alternative Football Club
By Manuel Veth -
Arsenal Kyiv are an example of invented traditions, a technique commonly associated with the nation building process of the former S ...
