Category: Features
Viktor Skripnik – A hint of Lobanovskyi at the Weserstadion
By Manuel Veth -
Viktor Skripnik is the man behind Werder Bremen’s revival during the second half of this year’s Bundesliga campaign. Little is left ...
2014 – A most forgettable year in Russian football
By Toke Møller Theilade -
The Russian football world was optimistic when 2013 turned into 2014. The national team had qualified for the first World ...
A New House is Not a Home: The Continued Demise of Spartak Moscow
By Manuel Veth -
In late summer 2014 for the first time in their history Spartak Moscow played a true home game at the newly-erected Otkrytie Arena ...
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 ...