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Big Challenges Awaits Cherchesov
Vitaly Mutko and Stanislav Cherchesov After weeks of speculation and waiting, Vitaly Mutko finally presented Russia’s next national team coach earlier this week. The choice fell on 52-year-old...
View ArticleRFN Podcast: State Influence, Dinamo Moscow’s Recovery And Youth Development...
Host Thomas Giles is joined by website editor Toke Theilade and Andrew Flint. On this podcast the trio discuss the state’s influence on Russian football and whether this is a good thing for the future...
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The FNL Cup – And Why It Matters
While fans back home shiver in temperatures well below freezing, the traditional winter break tournament featuring the majority of Russia’s second tier teams, the FNL Cup, kicked off today in the mild...
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Naturalisation and Foreign Player Limits in Russian Football
Vladimir Putin and Vitaly Mutko. Photo: Kremlin.ru In the last couple of years, Russian football has seen a huge increase of naturalised players in the country’s top division, as well as the first ever...
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Sergey Pryadkin on Reforming the Russian Football Premier League
Sergey Pryadkin in discussion with Vitaly Mutko, President of the RFU. Photo: Sport-Express. The president of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) and vice-president of the Russian Football...
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Sergei Pryadkin: Just who is Mutko 2.0?
The president of the Russian Football Premier League and vice-president of the Russian Football Union, Sergei Pryadkin is one of the most important and influential of all apparatchiks in Russian...
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Leonid Fedun’s “Football Revolution”: How the Spartak owner proposes...
Leonid Fedun is a highly influential figure in Russian football, and when he speaks, we all listen. He is the current majority shareholder of Spartak Moscow, LUKoil and former military officer. He has...
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Seagulls Ruin the Harvest – Match Fixing in the Russian Third Tier
Chayka walking out of the tunnel ahead of the game in question with Chernomorets Novorossiysk | Official Chayka VK Page It is no secret that the world of Russian football can sometimes be somewhat...
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RFN Weekly Round-Up
Sbornaya recall for Akinfeev? A fortnight ago, Match TV personality Nobel Arustamyan was asked in a podcast with Sport 24 whether or not Igor Akinfeev may return to the national team one day, to which...
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RFN Weekly Round-Up
| PFL East Disbanded The General Director of Olimp-PFL, Nikolai Akelkin announced yesterday that the Eastern Zone of the PFL would be disbanded in its entirety. The division, which currently holds six...
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