Offside: how football players get into political scandals
In the match against the Czech Republic, the players of the Ukrainian national football team…

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Before Gareth Bale was Freddy Eastwood. The main hope of Wales, which almost everyone has forgotten
In August 2007, the 23-year-old striker scored a goal during his debut in the Wales…

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Football was being killed in my hometown. But he still survived
Kirzhach - a city on the border of the Vladimir region with a population of…

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Valery Lobanovsky - Great coach!
The older generation of football fans who took the beginning of the 1960s should remember…

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Solskher will not be fixed in “MJ”. Norwegian specialist in the summer will give way to Pochettino

“Manchester United”, after two and a half years of cooperation, dismissed Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese during this time won the League Cup, the Supercup of England and the Europa League, but did not become the second Alex Ferguson for Manchester. Immediately after the departure of the Portuguese, it was assumed that his assistant, Michael Carrick, would temporarily replace him, but the club made another decision, “writing out” in Norway another legendary ex-player, Ole-Gunnar Solskher. Moreover, he was invited to the position of acting head coach.
It is rather strange that the Premier League allowed the coach to be declared as acting leader. Continue reading

7 temporary coaches who jumped above their heads

Ole Gunnar Sulskher started perfectly. Recall the other. head coach who was pleasantly surprised.
The specialist who worked before Chelsea only in the modest Milton Keynes Dons and West Bromwich Albion did not seem to be the most logical candidate for the position of Londoner’s manager, but Roman Abramovich had no choice — by that time he seemed to have already said goodbye with all the famous trainers in Europe. As a result, the Italian accepted (temporarily) the proposal in March 2012 after it turned out that Andre Villas-Boash would not be the “new Mourinho”. Continue reading

City where football clubs constantly die

Nizhny Novgorod is one of the most important millionaires in the country. Argentina, England, Croatia and other top teams will soon arrive there, and then one of the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Cup will take place. At the same time, clubs are regularly buried here: an outrageous project with the first legionnaires in Russia, and a team full of aging stars, and a lamp team named after the region. Alexander Plekhanov went to Nizhny Novgorod and figured out why such a fragile region has such a fragile football.
“Do you know what“ Russian roulette ”is? This is when you are given the task of taking the sixth place, and otherwise you threaten to disperse the whole team, ”said Valery Ovchinnikov about the goals of the Nizhny Novgorod Lokomotiv. He was engaged in the team from 1989 to 2002 – at first he only coached, and then became the club president. Continue reading

Not really football: what you need to know about the scandal "Dynamo" and "Mariupol"
The biggest scandal in Ukrainian football this summer - the non-appearance of Dynamo Kyiv for…

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Love at first sight
The German Bundesliga has always impressed with bright games and talented players. One of the…

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