Leonid Slutskiy, who has been in charge of CSKA Moscow since October 2009, will step down after Wednesday’s Champions League match against Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley. Russian daily SportExpress reported Ufa’s Viktor Goncharenko will be appointed as the replacement for Slutskiy, who led CSKA to three league titles, two Russian Cups and two Super Cups.
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Rostov stuns Bayern to record first Champions League victory
Russia’s Rostov won its first ever Champions League group game when it stunned Bayern Munich, 3-2. The loss along with Atletico Madrid’s win over PSV ended the German champion’s hopes of finishing ontop of Group D. Bayern had already qualified for the knockout stage. Coach Carlo Ancelotti’s changes included putting Sven Ulreich in goal for […]
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What They're Saying: Russian political scientist Mikhail Zakharov
“Putin has massively backed Chechnya both financially and politically. This is a show of faith towards [Chechen leader Ramzan] Kadyrov that a match of this importance is being allowed to takeplace here.” — Russian political scientist Mikhail Zakharov on Russian President Vladimir Putin allowing Russia to stage Tuesday’s friendly against Romania in Grozny, thecapital of […]
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Defeat to Qatar sets off alarm bells in Russia
Russia’s 2-1 loss to Qatar in a battle of the next two World Cup hosts was a morale-shattering defeat. It followed a dismal European Championship in France and has touched off one of the biggestsoccer crises in the country since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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More World Cup stadium problems in Russia
The stadiums slated to host World Cup 2018 matches in the Russian cities of Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod won’t be ready until 2018. Timetables on a Russian government website has changed thecompletion dates from December 2017 for both stadiums, which each holds 45,000 fans.
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Why Putin sticks with embattled soccer czar Mutko
Despite the devastating report into state-directed doping in Russia, President Vladimir Putin is sticking by Vladimir Mutko, Russia’s sports minister since 2008 who also heads up theRussian soccer federation, World Cup 2018 organizing committee and is a member of the FIFA Council. Mutko, who goes back with Putin to their days together more than two […]
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What They're Saying: Jaimie Fuller
“Football has to stand for its sport and the men and women who play it. Such flagrant flouting of the integrity of sport must be condemned. Any nation that sanctions such activity should not berewarded with hosting football’s showpiece event.” — #NewFIFANow co-founder Jaimie Fuller, suggesting Russia should be stripped of hosting rights for the […]
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What They're Saying: Russian national team position
“Like children at New Year’s, all Russians are waiting for a miracle, but this miracle hasn’t happened for decades.” — Russian petition that gained more than 210,000 signatures on Change.org, calling for the wholesale firing and replacement of Russia’s national team ahead of the 2018 World Cup. The petition followed Russia’s poorperformance at Euro 2016 […]
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Shanghai SIPG buys Hulk from Zenit for record Russian transfer fee
Nothing appears to be stopping Chinese clubs from spending massive amounts on the international transfer market. Shanghai SIPG, coached by the former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, boughtBrazilian striker Hulk from Zenit St. Petersburg for a Russian record $62 million, plus add-ons. Hulk scored 56 goals for Zenit in 97 Russian Premier League matches.
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Euro 2016: Results and schedule
Four Euro 2016 games are on tap for Tuesday. Only Spain, winner of its first two games in Group D, has clinched a berth in the knockout stage. MONDAY.Playing in its first European Championship, Wales won Group B when it beat Russia, 3-0, and England and Slovakia played to a scoreless tie. The Welsh raced […]