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An Honest Berdiýew Disappointed to Not Get Three Points

Rubin manager Gurban Berdiýew

The day after Rubin drew at home with Internazionale in Champions League, coach Gurban Berdiýew is realistic about the result’s implications.

You can read his translated comments here, but he echoes what RFN has said about the match.

While Berdiýew was generally “quite satisfied with the performance of [his] defence,” he rues not [...]

Spalletti to Zenit Gaining Steam

Former AS Roma coach Luciano Spalletti

Luciano Spalletti’s arrival at Zenit may be hastened by AC Milan’s struggles in Italy.

That’s the idea behind this morning’s reports, which say the Zenit is attempting to get their long term target inked now, before a marquee job in Italy opens up. The report notes that Leonardo’s job [...]

Starlets Earn CSKA Champions League Victory

Alan Dzagoev celebrates CSKA’s first goal.

CSKA got goals from Alan Dzagoev and Milos Krasic in route to a 2-1 victory over Turkish champions Besiktas JK in Moscow.

Dzagoev got the Army on the board in the seventh minute with a rocket from distance. The shot, from about 28 meters out, dove past Besiktas goalkeeper [...]

Russians Abroad : Week of Sept. 21st – 27th

This week was a relatively quiet week for Russian players abroad.  We did however, see the return of Andrei Arshavin, who had missed a couple week’s action for Arsenal.  Yuri Zhirkov was on Chelsea’s matchday squad as a sub, but after making his competitive debut in the Carling Cup, didn’t play in the league fixture.  [...]

Rubin Draws With Inter, Misses Opportunity For Three

Sergei Semak and Devan Stankovic elevate for a ball in yesterday’s Champions League match in Kazan.

At the end of the match, the announcers hailed Rubin’s draw as a moral victory – the club’s first every Champions League points. In the big picture that’s a fair assessment, but big pictures miss all those nasty [...]