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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 13, 2005 19:15:20 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 13, 2005 19:26:44 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 13, 2005 19:41:26 GMT -5
Btw, given that we have had one post on actual teams from west of Berlin do you want to name this thread Eastern European Football, 007?
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Post by FLHoya on Jul 13, 2005 21:46:36 GMT -5
I love how one of the choices in the poll question "How did you find out about Legia" on the English version of their site is "By accident". I'm gonna go with that one, since "some kid in a blue wig told me" doesn't seem to have a slot.
Now those 2002 World Cup threads on the old-school Blue and Gray board...THAT was a good time! I'm not sure if thebin has come down off his "Senegal beating France" cloud to this day! Nothing like spending 2:30-4:30am on a work night/morning sitting in the TV room downstairs watching the US beat Mexico. I will fully admit to watching every US game in the Gold Cup so far on Telefutura--my entire knowledge of Spanish has been learned from Andres Cantor and the imitators on other Spanish-language soccer telecasts. That and the stuff the fans used to yell at me when I was a soccer ref in South Florida.
Best atmosphere ever at a sporting event I've been to in my life was at the 1994 World Cup at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando (how that venue and the Silverdome ended up being hosts is beyond me). Simply incredible to be at--and I attended one of the LEAST compelling matchups in that tournament (Belgium and Morocco). The only thing that comes close is being an opposing fan at an NLCS game.
The odd link between those two experiences--the National Anthem singer both times was Jon Secada.
Oh yeah, Kurt, get me a scarf with that funny language with all the Z's in it like in the picture. ;D I got plenty of those things around the apartment.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 13, 2005 22:37:21 GMT -5
Why do I not get Telefutura?! I never thought I would say those words. FoxSports Soccer - which used to be called FoxSports World shows some of the games on tape delay, but that does not satisfy me nearly enough.
IMO, the national team needs to call up Adu and Johnathon Specter (sp?) in the next year - they are both the future of American soccer and it is time that they got some friendlies and maybe a world cup under their belts.
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Post by Badger Hoya on Jul 14, 2005 8:34:49 GMT -5
The extra security is the best part of the game! When Dinamo and CSKA played Zenit they had one miltsioner per 3 Zenit fans and 1 militsioner per 1.5 visiting fans - since there were 30,000 Zenit fans and 2,500 Muscovites you can do the math. And St. Petersburg has the added layer of security of having the soccer stadium on one of the many, many islands so they can just raise the bridge if it gets out of control at Petrovsky. Although I think the ethnic motivated hatred against Asians may have played an ancilary role in what happened at Manezhnaya Ploshad its also not out of the ordinary - after a TIE between Lokomotiv and Zenit where there way a controversial call I saw 3 tramvay's (trolley buses) tipped over by the crowds. Supposedly the new coach of the national team - who I forget because all I can remember about the selection process is that they did not pick Zenit's coach because he is actually Czech and that was somehow a minus - will return them to their "rightful" place . All in all, sounds like a very typical Russian experience. Nothing surprises me anymore when I go there. As for the national team, I think that right now, they're still on the downswing. I seem to remember that there are 2-3 really outstanding young Russian players, but apart from that, it's a lot of mediocrity. I mean, they haven't gotten out of the round robin tournament the last three large national tournaments that there were (and didn't even qualify for Euro 2000). I know that when I was there last, there wasn't a lot of optimism about the team... granted, there's never really a lot of optimism period in Russia, but still. |
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jul 14, 2005 12:41:07 GMT -5
If you ever said anything bad about Polish women you must be an idiot, haha. The women alone are worth a visit to Warsaw. |
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jul 14, 2005 13:06:15 GMT -5
Its also been announed that we'll be playing Bayern Munich, champions of the Bundesliga and one of the worlds best known teams in Warsaw on August 8th. That will most likely be extremely difficult to win, but since we just beat Bayer Leverkusen anything could happen I guess. Is this a friendly match between the two clubs or is this part of the Champions League? Question on the game - I can't tell from the pictures - but is the stadium that they play in modern or built by Soviets? There is a huge Soviet stadium in Petersburg (120,000) that they can't play their games in because it has about 3 bathrooms (no joke), it has no real foundation, and has no underfield heating. I was just wondering if this stadium is a marvel of Commradely engineering with quotas. I don't know what kind of a game it is yet, but I'll look into it. As for the stadium, its definitely not modern and it wasn't built by the Soviets either. It was actually completed in 1930! There isn't much in the way of modern stadiums yet in Poland. However, there are apparently plans to build a beautiful modern stadium for Legia that seats between 35-50,000 on an open piece of land next to this stadium. There is so much construction going on in Warsaw these days on modern buildings and sky scrapers and a new stadium is obviously a necessity now. Speaking of unusable stadiums built under communism though, haha. FLHoya already heard about this one from me. There is a very intriguing write-up about it on answers.com and there have been some talks about modernizing it and turning it into a usable stadium again, but we'll see about that. Just read this, its very interesting. And the bazaar that is currently there would be the best place for you to practice your Russian while in Warsaw, haha. www.answers.com/stadion%20dziesi%C4%99cioleciaHere are a couple pics of it: www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/poland/mazowieckie/warszawa_dziesieciolecia.shtml |
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 15, 2005 1:46:54 GMT -5
Is this a friendly match between the two clubs or is this part of the Champions League? Question on the game - I can't tell from the pictures - but is the stadium that they play in modern or built by Soviets? There is a huge Soviet stadium in Petersburg (120,000) that they can't play their games in because it has about 3 bathrooms (no joke), it has no real foundation, and has no underfield heating. I was just wondering if this stadium is a marvel of Commradely engineering with quotas. I don't know what kind of a game it is yet, but I'll look into it. As for the stadium, its definitely not modern and it wasn't built by the Soviets either. It was actually completed in 1930! There isn't much in the way of modern stadiums yet in Poland. However, there are apparently plans to build a beautiful modern stadium for Legia that seats between 35-50,000 on an open piece of land next to this stadium. There is so much construction going on in Warsaw these days on modern buildings and sky scrapers and a new stadium is obviously a necessity now. Speaking of unusable stadiums built under communism though, haha. FLHoya already heard about this one from me. There is a very intriguing write-up about it on answers.com and there have been some talks about modernizing it and turning it into a usable stadium again, but we'll see about that. Just read this, its very interesting. And the bazaar that is currently there would be the best place for you to practice your Russian while in Warsaw, haha. www.answers.com/stadion%20dziesi%C4%99cioleciaHere are a couple pics of it: www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/poland/mazowieckie/warszawa_dziesieciolecia.shtmlOMG, that's an exact copy of the abandoned one in Petersburg, although Peter's has been renovated slightly because it held the Good Will Games opening ceremony and athletic events. I have pictures of it that you can take a look at when we're back on campus, Kurt. I did manage to sneak on the track when the cops weren't looking and do a triumphal lap around the track. |
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 16, 2005 22:40:03 GMT -5
In more Russian Premier League news - it is the middle of the season (15 of the 30 league games are done for each team), and Moscow Dinamo is poised to go on a spending spree to dig itself out of the hole its dug for itself by being in 7th place. They are reportedly paying 30-35 Million Euros for the transfer of a Brazilian national team striker from the Mexican League. Meanwhile, Zenit Saint-Petersburg has acquired one of the leading Half-backs in the league from Krilya Sovetov as well at a Latvian National Team striker to replace some of their injured players. The move made by Dinamo (the largest deal in Primier League history) has gotten Zenit's coach Vladislav Peterzhela (himself a Czech citizen) to talking. In his last press conference he said that his coaching staff have been in South American and the USA evaluating talent that they might be interested in signing. Should be interesting to see if they get an American - no American has ever played in the Russian Premier League to my knowledge.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 18, 2005 19:46:17 GMT -5
Btw, Kurt et. al. I think we should make it our goal to see that that European Football thread has more posts on it at all times than the NHL thread - just to prove a point.
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jul 19, 2005 10:26:46 GMT -5
About the Bayern Munich game, Im pretty sure its just a friendly.
Unfortunately we've lost 3 key players to foreign teams recently. We already lost 2 of them before the Leverkusen game, our goalie who went to Celtic Glasgow I think and someone else. But after that a team from Portugal bought one of our strikers who scored against Leverkusen.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 19, 2005 12:19:07 GMT -5
Was it Sporting Portugal - they are really good? Zenit is reportedly going to announce that they are taking someone from MLS in the next two weeks.
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Post by nodak89 on Jul 19, 2005 13:33:09 GMT -5
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Post by GUHoya07 on Jul 20, 2005 6:30:08 GMT -5
looks like we're getting one of the guys back. Apparently there is some way of lending players to other teams, but our coach didnt want to lose 2 key strikers at once so one of them is being kept.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 21, 2005 17:00:15 GMT -5
Since the NHLPA has signed a contract I feel that there will be more NHL thread posts. So here's the latest from the Russian Premier League:
A full slate of matches are coming up on Satruday and Sunday in the Russian Premier League (or Championship of Russia). Of these the most interesting is probably the match up between Moscow sides Torpedo and Dinamo - both have more foreigners starting on their teams than Russians - big new stadiums with lots of luxury boxes and endorsement deals with Nike, Pepsi, and lots of other MNCs. For all of this neither of them look ready to compete for first place in the Premier League - which looks to be a two way chase between Moscow Locomotiv and Saint-Petersburg Zenit, with it really being Locomotiv's to lose at this point.
Lokomotiv takes on the creatively named Moscow, who are over-performing this year at 5th place in the Premier League - with a roster largely of unknowns and no big name foreign players.
Zenit takes on Alaniya of Vladikavkaz. Alaniya is struggling mightily. Having had 19 head coaches in 14 seasons in the Premier League is finally starting to take its toll as the team faces religation from the Premier League. They have also had problems guaranteeing the pay of their players and head coach, which led a Russian court to prohibit them from signing any new players until they could pay the ones that they have. Things do not look good for Alaniya as they make the long trip to Saint Petersburg - they have only one tie to show for their 9 total visits to Petersburg.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 21, 2005 17:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 23, 2005 0:19:19 GMT -5
While this is not technically completely European Football the LA Galaxy took on Real Madrid today and did not get played out of the stadium despite facing a team that has players worth more than the entire franchise, a team better than many national teams, and a history about 10 times older than that of the Galaxy. The final result was 2-0, but should probably have been 2-1. DC United take on Chelsea this weekend, I believe - if tickets are available to those of you in the DC Area you should go and see one of the most successful clubs in soccer today.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 24, 2005 13:36:36 GMT -5
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jul 29, 2005 1:00:15 GMT -5
DC United fans should be very proud of their team. They played Chelsea FC - clearly one of the greatest teams ever assembled with no thought given to cost - to a standstill. They had more corners, shots, and controlled the ball for most of the game - while playing the game at their pace. However, the billions of euros spent by a crazy football loving Russian were evident in the Chelsea counter attack leaving United with a 2-1 loss. Nonetheless, I think it was a good measuring stick for exactly how far football has come in America - some Premiership teams last year can't claim to have played Chelsea as closely. Game info.<Edited to include link to game info.> |
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