The most expensive defenders in the history of "Barcelona"
FootballHD recalls defense players whose transfers cost the Catalan club treasury a pretty penny. December 20, "Barcelona" announced an agreement with "Valencia" about the transition on loan to defender Jason…

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Shunsuke Nakamura: Japanese genius, who became the legend of "Celtic"
Despite the considerable success, few of the fans with warmth recalls the “Celtic” from the time of Gordon Strachan. They prefer the five-year plan led by Martin O'Neill, who returned…

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Love at first sight
The German Bundesliga has always impressed with bright games and talented players. One of the Bundesteams is my favorite team - Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund is the heart of Westphalia, a…

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Love at first sight
The German Bundesliga has always impressed with bright games and talented players. One of the Bundesteams is my favorite team - Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund is the heart of Westphalia, a…

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My specialty is football.

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

I saw the Champions League final from the inside. It was magical

Any trip to a match for a journalist begins with an accreditation. But the Champions League final is a special procedure. You need to fill out a bunch of documents and leave detailed information about yourself, after which the UEFA spokespersons make inquiries about the existence of the media and people who want to be accredited. Anyone can both refuse and confirm the application. The answer has to wait about a month. All this time you live impatiently from waiting, and every day, convulsively, 10 times a day, you check the mail, where the answer should come from just one main word: confirmed or rejected. This is something like a childhood at school, when you are waiting for a test grade or exam and are afraid that the teacher will say loudly to the whole class that you are not satisfied.
The distribution of elephants begins one day before the match in the Kiev Palace of Sports. Continue reading

Unlucky lucky. 6-time champion can complete a career in 22 years
The current season for Bayern Munich is rather strange - at the beginning of the campaign, only the lazy did not predict the early resignation of Niko Kovacs, and a…

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Before Gareth Bale was Freddy Eastwood. The main hope of Wales, which almost everyone has forgotten
There were many geeks, but rarely one of them justifies the expectations. Eastwood was another vain hope for Wales. Before Gareth Bale was Freddy Eastwood. The main hope of Wales,…

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