Youth Spotlight GoalChatter's Youth Spotlight series features up-and-coming young talent in the world of football. This week, Aleks talks with 19-year-old Stanislav Cherchesov, Jr., who is currently a goalkeeper at Dynamo Moscow. Photo: Stanislav Cherchesov How did your career in professional football begin? Did you always play as a keeper? I started playing for a team in Austria when I was 5 years old. I have always been a...
Youth Spotlight GoalChatter's Youth Spotlight series features up-and-coming young talent in the world of football. This week, Aleks chats with 19-year-old Kirill Trukhov, who most recently played for Rubin-II. He is currently a free agent. How did you come to play at Rubin Kazan? Did you start off at the academy? I started playing football at 8 years of age. I first played in the attack, but then...
Dynamo Moscow vs Metalist Kharkiv
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Dynamo vs Metalist: The Calm Amidst the Storm
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RPL and UPL sides face off in club friendly on Nelson Mandela DayMainstream media stay silent Photo: fcdynamo.ru by Aleks V On a hot summer day, Russian and Ukrainian football clubs Dynamo Moscow and Metalist Kharkiv played an international friendly at the SV Seeboden stadium in Austria. Dynamo, who finished 4th in last season's Russian Premier League, are playing a series of pre-season exhibition games, and faced the...
by Aleks V A 5-minute film on football with a trailer that aired all throughout the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament sets some pretty high expectations. Yet Nike manages to go above and beyond. The Last Game is a rather unexpected parable from Nike, featuring some of the world's best former and current players, like France's Franck Ribery, the USA's Tim Howard and England's Wayne Rooney, who are...
What makes a World champion? by Aleks V What does it really take to win the World Cup? Do teams that win in the Euro or in the Olympic games go on to win the World Cup as well? The answers to those and other questions help form a picture of what sort of teams tend to do well, who might win the final, and what teams have...
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Brazil vs Colombia
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World Cup Quarter-Final Preview: Brazil vs Colombia
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For the first time in World Cup history, Brazil will play Colombia outside of the qualifying round. There's a lot of pressure on the five-time champions and host nation to make the final, but so far, they've been dealing with it splendidly. Sure, they haven't always produced the best-looking football, and as ESPN have noted, they might not get any better, but Brazil have been fairly consistent. Unlike...
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France vs Germany
World Cup Quarter-Final Preview: France vs Germany
9:57 PM Ir'a bit disappointing knowing either Germany or France will be packing their bags after tomorrow's quarter-final game in Rio de Janeiro. Both teams have been a pleasure to watch as they finished top of their respective groups without losing a game. There's no question that both teams deserve to have made it this far, and perhaps the disappointment is in knowing that this won't be a semi-final. Whoever...
