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Preview: Rubin Looks To Take Control of Premier League Against CSKA

CSKA has seen its domestic season become derailed amidst coaching staff turmoil. From the club’s perspective, no season where The Army fails to challenge for the league’s title can be considered a successful one. Nine points behind second place Spartak Moskva going into Sunday’s match with Rubin, CSKA will have to win out [...]

RPL Friday Wrap-Up: Kazan’s Tale of Two Halves

It was a tale of two very different halves, but in the end Rubin Kazan was able to improve upon their chances of winning their second straight championship, defeating Krylia Sovetov Samara on Friday 4-1.

During the first half, with the exception of one decent chance from Alexsandr Bukarov that was swept away by Samara’s goalkeeper [...]

Real Madrid Set to Raid CSKA? Maybe.

CSKA goaltender Igor Akinfeev to back-up Iker Casillas? That sounds … weird.

One item that was reported earlier in the week which we failed to pass on was rumors of CSKA Moskva’s brightest stars possibly raided by Real Madrid. It’s an interesting thought, which you can find here – the justification for which [...]

Russian Premier League Players at U-20 World Cup

CSKA’s Tomas Necid is one of two Premier League players in Egypt for the FIFA U-20 World Cup

Two Premier League players are in Egypt for the U-20 World Cup. While it’s a bit unfortunate that the number is slow low (allowing for Russia not qualifying for the tournament), these two strikers are worth [...]

CSKA/Ramos Marriage Starts Off Well, Army Club wins 3 – 0

The relationship between CSKA Moskva and Juande Ramos took off and hit the ground running yesterday.  Ramos was signed midweek and didn’t have hardly any time to get to know his new charges.  Yet the Muscovite club was able to thrash a solid Kryliya Sovetov Samara side yesterday 3 – 0 at Luzhniki Stadium in [...]