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Practice your accent before 2018

dmitri — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:29:07 GMT

Boyz end galz, this is a tribute to Sam Banerjee, and everyone on Footbo. Racism, crime, corruption and dangerous roads promises to turn the 2018 world cup experience into a nightmare for travelling
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The Crazy Nature of FIFA

dmitri — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:46:01 GMT

After succumbing into a post-world cup depression, stuck in a Spartak Moscow limbo and the bipolar nature of the Russian national team roller-coaster, it must be said that a crazy week of world class
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Furious Reds

dmitri — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:25:44 GMT

Figuring out best world cup players never been this harder. La Copa de la Furia Roja is how to describe South Africa 2010, and this is what makes it harder. The Colour Red. This was a world cup of
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Between Neo-Pragmatism and Desparate Measures

dmitri — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:10:05 GMT

Mourinho shut a few loud mouths with his emphatic Milito finish, dismissing questions about Demichelis and Van Buyten. Pragmatism was the message as results take priority. The word buzzed through to
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How To Beat Brazil? - Breaking Dunga's Case

dmitri — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:33:10 GMT

Express your dissapointment any way you like, but Brazil remain the Jogo Bonito side we've come to know them as. Despite many fans dissagreing with Dunga's thuggish selection, they never shy from pl
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Eleven From Match #3: Have You Seen the Orange Submarine?

dmitri — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:19:04 GMT

Not much time to look back at the group stages of South African mundial, as Uruguay and South Korea kicks-off the knock-out phase at Nelson Mandela Bay this afternoon. ? Goals from Khumalo and M
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Dunga's Return to Roots: Eleven from Second Matches of Group Stage

dmitri — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:57:36 GMT

The second group matches saw many teams collapse under immense pressure. South Africa, Nigeria, Germany, even Cameroon and Ivory Coast, all lost their nerves in the excitement of the day. ? Pres
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Case for Maicon's Mundial: Eleven from First Matches in Group Stage

dmitri — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:26:57 GMT

The first round of group games are behind us. Plain set pieces, bitter mistakes and sour disorganisations have left an after taste still longing for the sweet open play goals. Defensive Organisation.
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Brazilian Thugs versus Spanish Con-Artists

dmitri — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:41:10 GMT

Weird Adidas ball, injury plagues, what else the sorcery of South Africa got to offer? According to Barzil?s Maicon, next to get eliminated from the world cup is Pretty Football. ? Well, as long
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Cameroon Have Beaten Defending Champion in the Past

dmitri — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:02:16 GMT

Ever since 1990 the Netherlands have been there or thereabouts as favourites to win the world cup. And for as many years we haven?t seen defending champions look so out of place, as Italia in 2010.
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Hoping for an England-Germany Second Round

dmitri — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:17:22 GMT

Remember to mark Saturday, June 12, on your calendar because the first of this world cup?s big showdowns, England ? USA, takes place following what might be a battle of skill and flair (Argentina ?
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Maradona in the Eyes of South Afrincans

dmitri — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:05:11 GMT

We?re cosying up to June 11 and Germany already lost two of their best players, Brazil hiding behind a powerful starting line-up, Spain?s endless assembly line of talents maturing, Argentina gather
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As Bored As Spalletti

dmitri — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:25:19 GMT

Boring Leagues Never mind boring English, Spanish or Italian leagues. The contestants there speak with tongues rather than feet. But of course, if feet were used to score points, it won't be 'speaking
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Don't Let Barca Shut You Down

dmitri — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:31:14 GMT

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team is a rarity. Kurban Berdyev will detail you about this team's strongest asset: teamplay. Despite a line-up of humble superstars (their ten hours bus ride to Milan witnes
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Just Put Down Your Predictions!

dmitri — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:32:22 GMT

What an embarrasement. With yesterday's blog, I got just about everything wrong with the Champions League schedule,?the wasteful talent that is Dmitri should stick with predictions this week. Good j
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Crazy Horses, Honda CSKA and the Intelligent One

dmitri — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:56:03 GMT

First it was Real Madrid, now it's Chelsea FC. There seem to be no save place to keep money nowadays. To be fair to Roman Abramovich, he didn't spend money on world record transfers, but he spent plen
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Little Champions Meet Before the Russian Season Begins

dmitri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:46:44 GMT

German and Russian defending champions are at loggerheads for the Europa League, the cup for little Napoleons of Europe. Too small for you? Can?t regard Bundesliga small, or Wolfsburg a lauzy side.
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The Case for a Brave and Intelligent One

dmitri — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:28:21 GMT

Who is to Stop Barca? Madrid is plotting a counter-offensive for the Catalan resurgance, apparantly. But that's not a big deal. If Rubin Kazan can do it, so can Madrid, or Stuttgart. Theoretically.
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A New Schedule and Purple Dinamites for This Week?s UCL

dmitri — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:21:40 GMT

Platini and His Dates. Four weeks of Champions League's Last 16?will give us room to appreciate each of the remaining teams. With eight home and away pairs being spread over the calendar to limit us
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A Blaugrana Case for Cesc, and A Challenging Case for Yuri

dmitri — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:12:49 GMT

This sunday: Arsenal take on title contenders, away?at Chelsea. While the funky playmaker Cesc Fabregas leave the doors to his future wide open with a subtle complaints regarding the absence of an o
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Clinging Foreign Geese and True Believers

dmitri — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:22:03 GMT

???? ??????????, ??????????? ????!? cried out the Homeless character from Bulgakov?s Master Margarita. In the thumping first chapter of this fabulous book of two parts, a self-proclaimed atheist of
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The Case for Xavi and World Cup 2010

dmitri — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:53:40 GMT

Zero-Sum Game for Your Justice When Leo Messi won his 2009 Ballon d'Or, the master dribbler mentioned about how many great players never get to win the award. And it's an extremely important award
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Nervous Breakdown

dmitri — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:41:00 GMT

For whatever enigmatic Churchillean reason, deep roots inhabit the self-destructive tendencies of what we have come to know as All Things Russian. Get Down! The 2009 Russian season came to a close
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The Play-Offs: Real Football Stretch Your Nerves

dmitri — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:58:45 GMT

How not to think that Good Football Should Stretch Nerves, after seeing [some of the] recent FIFA World Cup Qualifying Play-offs? Recall Slovenia's bombardment of Akinfeev's gates in the last five m
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Multiple Battle Fronts in Nervy November

dmitri — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:53:09 GMT

There are two gameweeks left in Russia's Premier League competition and November hadn't been this warm since Zenit's 2007 triumph, which came on top of that famous McLaren defeat. Last year, Rubin b
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Master Berdyev Fashions a Slick Barcelona Suit

dmitri — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:37:32 GMT

The man showed up in a slick new suit to completely destroy the stereotyping. No more do we see a green tracksuit, nor that famous, Russian weather thorn, old?green checkered suit and the ruby shirt.
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Bad Luck and the Outstanding Ballack

dmitri — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:44:49 GMT

This wasn't a lucky week for me, and amidst the exciting world cup qualifications build-up, the latest Moscow air is far from the one which witnessed England's defeat two years ago. We were a badly hu
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Reckonings from the Group of Champions (Group F)

dmitri — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:04:34 GMT

""Group F is the only one which consist league champions of previous seasons. That?s a fine occasion to measure up things. The last two Rubin Kazan Champions League performances sum up Russi
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How Small a Signing was Yossi Benayoun to Liverpool?

dmitri — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:47:44 GMT

Liverpool goalkeeper Reina should reconsider his professional status if he believes his own words, that his team is already out of contention after so many league matches. Appreciate Spurs, what was c
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How close is Cristiano Ronaldo to either Maradona or Pele?

dmitri — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:37:50 GMT

One number nine shirt danced the stepover at the Bernabeu, and then scored from the spot. Post-match interview showed a different Cristiano. Ronaldo didn?t mature in England; he is about to in Spain
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Arsene and The Superleagues

dmitri — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:01:47 GMT

Possibly, Arsene Wenger is right about big clubs and European leagues. It?s becoming evermore possible to arrange global Superleagues once transportation technology gets upgraded. Traditionalists lo
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Los Albicelestes in Red

dmitri — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:41:04 GMT

The Promise of Bracamonte, and Alejandro's Chase At one point in the past, several RPL teams each had?a contingent of?talented Argentinians in their squad, including?the once promising Daniel Monten
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Scandals and Missing Diamonds

dmitri — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:43:23 GMT

Brazilian Carnival: CSKA 1-2 Spartak: Whatevers been wrong with a Pigs life has now been put right with deadly brace from the Brazilian playmaker Alex, while Zico looks on from the Horses' bench a
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Considering Russia 2018 World Cup Bid

dmitri — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:30:44 GMT

Countries with larger territories have had the opportunity to host the FIFA World Cup before. 1994 World Cup was, and still remains for many people to be one of the most memorable FIFA World Cups ev
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Theme Parks, Summer Breaks and Bundes-Trends

dmitri — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:26:41 GMT

The Russian Premierleague isrelaxing in the middle of a three week summer pause. Unlike that of Bundesliga, this is not exactly mid-season break, since the season had only played out twelve of its
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best 11s From The Past

dmitri — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:09 GMT

I've been comming up with best 11s while attending class since fifth grade, when i was all into Oleg Blokhin (quite late for my age) back in 1985. Lod Cantona, Im old. But i've tried lookig into the o
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Eastern Europe All Time Best 11

dmitri — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:29:17 GMT

Here's my bias take on what could be a fantasy All-time Best 11 for Easter Europe. When considering best 11, it would be interesting to begin with a pair of manager and coachto represent the succesfu
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Russian Opening Act

dmitri — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:12:25 GMT

Curtains Not Yet Raised According to Hiddink, the first two matchdays/gameweeks of the Russian season will offer nothing new to the national squad. That was his justification for delegating select
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A Messianic Future for Lionel

dmitri — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:29:35 GMT

I love Lionel Messi. A lot. And he doesnt seem to be as injury prone as first suggested, so im only crossing my fingers on one hand when i see him go down. But performing miracles on a weekly basis a
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About Belgium

dmitri — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:08:55 GMT

Guys, I'd like to ask your opinions on the Belgium national team. I watched a few of their olympic matches, and their good performance against Spain. THey look like a good young side. Apart from Kompa
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Tatarstan Revival: Could a Bolton do the Title?

dmitri — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:05:20 GMT

Rubin Kazan maybe about to snatch the Russian title. Its four games to go, and they're ten points clear off Alan Dzagoev's CSKA, who is currently on a hot winning streak, and has a game in hand agains
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Respectful Meneer Hiddink

dmitri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:48:00 GMT

Hiddink is a master atconditioning hisopponents tofear his teams. When his team is not worth noticing, he somehow manages to tactically punish those who underestimate his men. In recent Euro champi
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