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Premier League Wrap: Week 26
Week 26 in the Premier League only added more vigor and intrigue to the title chase and a cluttered Europa League field. Building on Saturday’s results – Dinamo, Terek and Lokomotiv each dispatched...
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Foreigners: Alania Vladikavkaz
I’ve always wanted to write something about foreign players in RPL teams. How important are they to the teams they represent, whether the clubs really need them and are there really too many...
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Foreigners: Mordovia Saransk
Saransk is an unfortunate town. The smallest city represented in Premier League, and despite the fact that Mordovia is a republic, the city is not important. The importance of sport there was best...
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1st Annual RFN “RPL First 11″
(Photo Courtesy of CSKA Official Instagram http://instagram.com/p/ZlMm44wxkg/ ) Our experts voted (with help from our twitter followers) for our Team of the Year. We had no position requirements-...
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Foreigners: Krylia Sovetov Samara
Samara is a football-addicted city with huge traditions. I’ll say just one thing – Krylya are the only provincial team that have never been relegated from the Russian Championship. And the third place...
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Swedish Exports – not just Volvo, IKEA & ABBA
What links CSKA’s midfield linchpin Pontus Wernbloom & last season’s joint top RPL goalscorer Wanderson? The answer is the Swedish city of Gothenburg. Both of these impressive player’s careers...
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Top 10 Foreign Players in the RPL
The Russian league has a vast amount of foreign talent, but these are my Top 10 international stars. (10) Joaozinho. The little Brazilian is a massive part of the reason FC Krasnodar have been able to...
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Viktor Fayzulin’s Trip Through Injury Hell
Viktor Fayzulin during a game against Austria in November, 2014. Photo: Manfred Werner 80 minutes into the game against Amkar Perm on September 20, 2015, Viktor Fayzulin had to leave the pitch with an...
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Most Decorated Players of Soviet and Russian League Football
Oleg Blokhin of Dynamo Kyiv lifts the Cup Winners’ Cup in March, 1986. Source: Sovsport. After a previous article exploring the “Soviet Champions, too” (players who played just one game in a season in...
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Analysing Rubin Kazan’s Involvement in Football Leaks
Football Leaks | IEC The latest set of revelations in the FootballLeaks campaign conducted by the EIC Network involve several Russian clubs. The leaks show that the owners of four RPL clubs, namely...
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