Category: Features
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 ...
Anzhi – Kremlin PR in the North Caucasus
By David McArdle -
Word association with the North Caucasus and with Dagestan in particular is changing. Instead of “insurgency”, “bombings”, “terro ...
Karpaty Lviv – the Pride of Galicia
By Manuel Veth -
Lviv and its football club Karpaty are a curious case: a city that boasts such a multi-cultural past has become the centre of natio ...
