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Team Focus: Lack of Riches Taking its Toll on Relegation Threatened Rostov

by Domm Norris at Thursday, Nov 13 2014 14:16
Team Focus: Lack of Riches Taking its Toll on Relegation Threatened Rostov At the pinnacle of world football money flows as freely as the Amazon. Players, agents and clubs all benefit from the significant cash flow of European and domestic success with little regard for the future of those clubs and players who are battling to survive several rungs of the ladder below them...
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Team Focus: Typically Inconsistent Spartak Struggling at Either End

by Domm Norris at Thursday, Oct 30 2014 13:47
Team Focus: Typically Inconsistent Spartak Struggling at Either End For the past decade, since their last league victory in 2001, Spartak Moscow are a club who have been bedevilled by inconsistency. The club’s recruitment of players and coaches has been decidedly sketchy since their legendary coach Oleg Romantsev, the man who won 8 league titles while at Spart...
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Player Focus: CSKA Profiting From Natkho's Russian Return

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Sep 24 2014 10:56
Player Focus: CSKA Profiting From Natkho's Russian Return All too often it is the multi-million pound, dollar or rouble deals that set the pulses racing during any given transfer window. Those are the moves that capture the hearts, minds and tongues of the footballing public and create a frenzy like no other. However, more often than not, it is the deals a...
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Team Focus: Dinamo Striking the Balance Between Defence & Attack

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Sep 10 2014 14:08
Team Focus: Dinamo Striking the Balance Between Defence & Attack Money - a word that has seemingly become synonymous with Russian football in the 21st century. Roman Abramovich’s takeover of Chelsea popularised the idea of mega rich Russian oligarchs taking a football club from mediocrity to the pinnacle of European football. Since that point, the likes of ...
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Team Focus: Unbeaten Kuban Simple But Effective Under Goncharenko

by Domm Norris at Thursday, Sep 4 2014 14:32
Team Focus: Unbeaten Kuban Simple But Effective Under Goncharenko It is an unenviable task for a 37-year-old - with minimal playing experience - to walk into a dressing room of a major domestic club and command the respect needed to prevent a downturn that could send the club into oblivion. However, for the Kuban Krasnodar coach, Viktor Goncharenko, the move to Ru...
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Player Focus: Homegrown Forwards Rightly Making Headlines in Russia

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Aug 13 2014 15:19
Player Focus: Homegrown Forwards Rightly Making Headlines in Russia The recent World Cup in Brazil is being viewed as something of a tipping point for Russian football - as the old guard, who have been so prominent since Euro 2008, are faded out to be replaced by younger, fresher talent in anticipation for when the tournament is held on native soil in 2018. National...
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Team Focus: Zenit's New Dawn Starting Brightly Under Villas-Boas

by Domm Norris at Saturday, Apr 26 2014 08:50
Team Focus: Zenit's New Dawn Starting Brightly Under Villas-Boas A new dawn is upon Zenit St Petersburg as the club seeks to reaffirm its wavering position at the fore of Russian football. The demise of Luciano Spalletti’s tenure at Zenit can be attributed to many differing factors, having initially begun in the summer of 2012 with the seemingly indulgent p...
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Team Focus: Managerless Spartak's Possession Football Not Paying Off

by Domm Norris at Monday, Apr 7 2014 17:49
Team Focus: Managerless Spartak's Possession Football Not Paying Off It’s difficult to imagine a club so unstable that within the space of a few weeks they can go from title challengers to mid-table fodder. That’s the situation that Spartak Moscow currently find themselves in, as they head towards the season’s end deeply embroiled in a crisis that s...
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League Focus: Russian Premier League - Post Winter Preview

by Domm Norris at Monday, Mar 3 2014 12:47
League Focus: Russian Premier League - Post Winter Preview As the snow begins to thaw across the world’s largest nation, the Russian Premier League once again cranks into action following a break of almost three months in order to offset the damaging effects of the winter’s sub zero temperatures. To many people such a sizeable gap in playing tim...
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Team Focus: CSKA Failings Down to Lack of Firepower

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Oct 16 2013 16:00
Team Focus: CSKA Failings Down to Lack of Firepower It’s an old adage in football that retaining a league title is even more difficult than winning it the first time round. Whether such a notion holds true is frankly up for debate, however you can look towards CSKA Moscow as a team who appear intent on adding fuel to the proverbial fire. The Ru...
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