Question about club football in Russia

IN that case you're probably right. Ossetia is in the heart of the Caucasus and one thing's for sure you'll see a massive amount of hot girls at any given Nalchik game !

 

What he means is the federal government. They aren't trying to secede from the Federation.

 

That is true, North Ossetians do seem, at least at the surface, the most pro-Federal group on the Russian side of the Caucasus.

 

yeah nalchik smoking chics. damn! HAHAHHA worth living there even

 

I do not know where you can see in the Caucasus beautiful girls. There are some crocodiles. By the way, Caucasian stadiums are almost no girls, there is not accepted.
Live there do not advise anyone, but if you like to be the epicenter of the terrorist attacks, then welcome to the North Caucasus.
With respect to security in the region, there the following features:
Makhachkala, Nalchik and Vladikavkaz, characterized by constant attacks, at least once a month, sometimes every day (last week in Dagestan). On the football there constantly putting pressure on referees, sometimes bribery, sometimes with the use of physical force or at gunpoint. During the match, local police and "wild fans" rioted. In Russia, the Caucasus fans associated with stones and sheep.
Terrible allocated other features. There is also a similar pressure on the judges, but no rockfalls and other delights of the Caucasian "hospitality".
In Chechnya, virtually no laws in Russia, there unofficially set to Sharia law. City patrols are not the police, and bearded "Kadyrovtsy" with Kalash. At the stadium there are snipers out there all is calm, the stands do not even scream obscene lyrics. And direct the oasis in the middle of the anarchist Caucasus former terrorist, Ramzan Kadyrov.
I can not imagine that Osama bin Laden (Arsenal fan) would be able to buy shares of the London Club and walk to the Premier League games.
By the way, there is a Caucasian union fans ATAS (Alania, Terek, Anji, Nalchik).

Fans of the Moscow clubs are now writing letters to the RFU and FIFA requirements exclude Anji of RPL and calls to stop the Caucasus-style in the Russian football. They are ready to go even to thwart Russia's bid for World Cup 2018.

 

Nalchik = Circassian and their women are held in high regard for their looks I thought. And last game I saw them play at home I saw some really hot girls.

 

Atmosphere Caucasian trips through the eyes of fans of Spartak Moscow. A few examples:
Nalchik 2006
http://www.youtube.com/user/stanley088#p/u/10/ofQq_PWOb-I
Nalchik 2007
http://www.youtube.com/user/Shtirletz#p/a/u/1/TUDHLwsfpzs
Groznyi 2008
http://www.youtube.com/user/FratriaRu#p/u/12/eUi9_CtvO7A
Groznyi 2009
http://fanat1k.ru/video-view-2217.php
Vladikavkaz 2010
http://fanat1k.ru/video-view-3908.php
http://www.youtube.com/user/zheton#p/a/u/1/23WNBGlNeB0
http://www.youtube.com/user/zheton#p/a/u/0/qPlGDottHIc
Mahachkala 2010
http://fanat1k.ru/video-view-4565.php
http://fanat1k.ru/video-view-4534.php
http://www.youtube.com/user/vudit83#p/u/0/JQRmhAESuRE

 

Krasnoyarsk Krai region has always remained burned on my brain for the class of women. They have the looks and the soft personality but not afraid to roll up their sleeves and take care of business. Close second would be the ladies from Khabarovsk but I'm bit biased with that as my other half's family is from there.

Caucasus region is a trip, makes my childhood in Newark,NJ seem like a trip to Disney World.

Rusich, thanks for the video's very cool stuff... almost as good as the Loko Massive On Tour

 

I prefer Krasnodar

 

May I ask why ? I suppose it's the seaside vacation feel to it all that put me off a bit. I like the area, don't get me wrong, just curious what about it warms your soul ?

 

what clubs are known for different styles of play? I am sure the weather probably causes issues during the winter but are there any particular Russian clubs known for playing attractive attacking football while certain others are known for staying back with defensive style preferring to counter attack.

Do certain clubs play really well passing football while certain might like to do that hoof ball that was so well known in old English style.


This thread is very useful!

 

Rubin plays the most counterattack. Huge gap in foreigner talent between the top clubs and bottom clubs dictates style of play somewhat. Terek plays nice as does Sibir for the bottom teams. But corruption is common.

Spartak, CSKA, Zenit all play pretty good. Have some quality foreigners and decent Russians.

 

Spartak is traditionally known for playing a very technical shot passing style of football.

 

One brings up the gap in talent between the top and bottom of the league.

Does that lead quite often to the lesser clubs parking the bus a lot like one would see many of the lower English clubs when they travel to the bigger clubs home?

 

Russian premier league is surprisingly more competitive than EPL top to bottom.

Not as much this year, but in previous years Zenit could lose to any time any week. It's not like when Chelsea loses to a team, all hell breaks lose, RPL is more unpredictable.

 

Not at all. The matches against the bottom half are tough, and don't take my word for it it came right out of the mouths of McGeady, Honda, etc.

Plus something controversial and crazy goes down almost every week in the RPL, the only down side is match fixing.

 

This is something I've been meaning to ask you guys about...how often does match fixing occur in the RPL in your opinions?

I just don't watch--or care--enough about the league enough to investigate.

 

Well put it this way. There are quite a few matches we're certain of being fixed, now add to those the ones we missed.

 

Which teams are mentioned most? Zenit? The clubs from Chechnya?

 

My guess in RPL is 15-20 times a season. I don't read Russian media so others may know more. More in first division though. Never meaningful games, but mid-low table teams in shady locations (think Terek, Anzhi). Or teams who go bankrupt and can't pay their players (think KS last year). Or ref intimidation (Terek).

 

Last year KS blatantly threw games. I watched one personally against Terek. Just stood around and gave up at the end. They weren't getting paid and it was a mess. Others are speculation.

Zenit don't buy games, don't need to. Maybe unduly influence things through their power, like if they accidentally break the foreigner limit, they get a tie instead of a loss or something like this.

 

Zenit and CSKA have both been implicated, there was a huge scandal about Luch Energiya selling a match to CSKA around 5-6 years ago. Rumours floated around that both CSKA and Zenit did some shady dealings with the Caucasus teams this year, Spartak was rumored to have sold the match to Krylya. Again, nothing substantiated.

The Caucasus teams are notorious for bribes, intimidation, match fixing, etc. In the Soviet league it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that if you played in Yerevan that you were literally playing against 12 men.

 

Interesting, thanks for the info.

What about Zenit's policy of not signing black players? Is this something that is set in stone, or could Spaletti buy an African or Brazilian if he wanted (I don't count Bruno Alves, lol ).