Pre-Season Training Camps – An inside view of Rubin Kazan in Austria

Russian Football News have teamed up with Kazan based sports website Sport BO (@Sport_BO) to translate a very interesting article from their journalist Vladislav Zimagulov (@vlad_zima), who had the chance to go to Austria and spend time with Rubin Kazan as they undertook their lengthy pre-season training camp in Mühldorf. At this hugely exciting time for the club, with a new manager – Javi Gracia from Malaga- , new coaches and lots of new players, this kind of insight is hugely interesting, and … [Read more...]

Summer Special in Moscow: Spartak - Dynamo Kiev

It's been decades since they battled for top honors in the Soviet league, but Spartak - Dynamo Kiev is still an important fixture, even when it's a preseason friendly. Days in advance, 8,000-plus Muscovites bought up every available ticket for the match at Eduard Streltsov Stadium on the southeast edge of downtown Moscow. Thursday's match, the first of the four-team United Tournament, featuring Spartak, Zenit, Shakhtar and Dynamo, went to the visitors, 1-0, on an Oleg Gusev penalty in the … [Read more...]