Posts Tagged ‘ Russia ’

While England promote their 'safe' option, Russia's bid team for the 2018 World Cup want the tournament to be a historic momentVitaly Mutko is in a confident mood. Surveying Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, with its luridly green artificial pitch, Mutko reca...
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The Road to Euro 2012 continues on Tuesday… Euro 2012 qualifying continues tomorrow (Tuesday, September 7) after the most countries kicked off their qualification campaign last Friday.  And even though we are two years away from the final tournament and its only matchday 2- some countries are already under pressure to get results. FIVE QUICK...
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This is both self-explanatory and hard as hell to get right.There's so much extrapolation required here, I'd feel like a real winner just for getting four from the list in the World Cup 2014 finals field and maybe a couple reaching the knockouts.Honora...
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In 140 days, two bids will be given the task of assembling the world’s biggest traveling circus, one in 2018 and another in 2022. One of the greatest beneficiaries in the process is us, of course – the fans. As the movers and handshakers worry about the details, we’re being thumped on the head...
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Damn the World Cup, it’s the best tournament of the summer, maybe the best of them all. It’s not sanctioned and the teams are far from a smattering of the world’s best, but it’s everything football is supposed to be: fun, youthful and not taken so damn seriously. It’s the Toulon tournament. The World Cup...
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• Former Belgium manager to be presented tomorrow
• Advocaat previously managed Zenit St Petersburg

Dick Advocaat will be appointed Russia's new national coach, replacing his fellow Dutchman Guus Hiddink, the president of the Russian FA (RFU) said today.

"Advocaat will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday and will be...
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I know what you’re thinking: what does MTV have to do with the World Cup? I rebut: what does MTV have to do with music? Exactly – nothing. This is actually the non-American MTV, where they know that for one month this summer the whole world will be focused on one channel – that one with...
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It’s the synergy of the past and present, it is. Oleg Salenko, he who became famous for scoring a record five goals in a single World Cup game, put those shoes (famous shoes?) up for sale and someone bit: $500k worth of biting. Would you pay half a million dollars for a pair of used,...
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The Premier League finalises rights deals with Russia

It didn't take long for television to cotton on to the appeal of football – as early as September 1937, the BBC screened a specially arranged friendly between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves at Highbury. But coverage in the decades that...
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There was breaking (sort of) and surprising (not really) news that Dick Advocaat left one of his coaching spots (he’s still filling in at AZ) as Belgian gaffer less than one year after taking the reins, with the good money saying he did so to take the big money with Russia. Fret not, you are...
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With both the Champions League and the Europa League down to the elite eight, let's continue our own March madness by laying out the brackets.In each set, the club listed first begins at home. Also for each, the semifinal meetings will pit the winners of pairing 1 v 2 and 3 v 4.Champions...
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Luke Harding on Litvinenko family's failed attempt to find refuge in Italy

Following last November’s launch of their new home kit, the RFU has officially launched the Russia 2010/12 adidas away kit. It made its debut in the team’s 1-1- draw with Hungary last Wednesday night.The Russia 2010/12 adidas away kit will see further action as Andrei Arshavin and company attempt to qualify for Euro 2012...
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Fans go on hunger strike in protest as Russian club drops out of the Premier League after Norilsk Nickel withdraws its backing

Chelsea, be warned: some Russian sugar daddies turn off the tap. Russian Premier League side FC Moscow have ceased to exist after their owners, metal giants...
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Guus Hiddink not part of the 2010 World Cup? Not possible. Right on cue, Didier Drogba reportedly reaches out to his old boss through a personal call to find out his availability for the Elephants coaching job. Time for the...
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• Italian met Russian FA last week
• Deal could more than double his net income

The Russian Football Union has made an approach to Fabio Capello about leaving England after the World Cup in South Africa and taking up a new and highly lucrative position as...
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Forget John Terry, Vanessa Perroncel and Ashley Cole’s little – or big – black book, Guus Hiddink is blowing their whoring ways out of the European water. He’s never quite been a one-club man – frequent flier miles between Sydney and Eindhoven tell enough of a story – but Guus is entering into unchartered...
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• Takes over on August 1 following stint with Russia
• Had been linked with return to Premier League

Guus Hiddink has signed a two-year contract to take charge of Turkey, the country's football federation has confirmed.

The Dutchman announced last week that he is quitting as manager of...
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The Dutchman took Russia to a new level but after missing out on the World Cup now might be the right time to leave

Guus Hiddink took the Russia job just after they had failed to qualify for the World Cup and he walks away from the Russia...
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Former coalmine mechanic is declared the wealthiest of the country's 77 billionaires, with fortune put at $18.8bn

A former mechanic whose life has been described as a proletarian success story was today unveiled as Russia's richest man, in a survey revealing that the country's oligarchs have bounced back...
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