Category: Russia
Russian Football Hooliganism – the Caucasian Divide
By Yan Matusevich -
Keeping politics out of football has been a FIFA slogan for years, a policy the organization strives to promote by showcasing th ...
The Ugly Side of FC Zenit St Petersburg
By Yan Matusevich -
Going to the Petrovsky Stadium to watch Zenit St Petersburg had been a tradition in my family for over three generations. With j ...
The Soldier’s Tango – A Homage to CSKA Moscow in Catalonia
By Manuel Veth -
Last week CSKA Moscow played their Champions League home match against Viktoria Plzen at the Petrovskii Stadium in Saint Petersburg ...
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 ...
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 ...
