Spartak – Maccabi Haifa 0:1

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In the second Austrian match Spartak lost to the Israeli club from Haifa. The goal was scored in the middle of the second half.

«Spartak» 0:1 (0:0) «Maccabi Haifa»

«Spartak»: Dzhanaev – Parshivlyuk (Rodriguez, 46), Jiranek (c) (Dedura, 46), Schtranzl (Fathi, 46), Makeev (Kudryashov, 46) – Bystrov (Saenko, 46), Sabitov (Kovalchuk, 46), Ananidze (Ryzhkov, 46), Boyarintsev (Grigoryev, 46) – Dzyuba (Pavlenko, 46), Yakovlev (Prudnikov, 46; Welliton, 72).

Day in History

July 3, 2009

1940. USSR Championship. Round 10. Spartak — Lokomotiv 2:0.
Goals: Glazkov, Kornilov.

1991. USSR Championship. Round 16. Spartak — Pakhtakor (Tashkent) 4:0.
Goals: Radchenko (2), Perepadenko, Mostovoi.

Pavlyuchenko close to leave Spurs?

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Spanish Villarreal are interested in the Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko. Earlier Stuttgart and Besiktas considered the Russia international’s chances at their clubs seeking for a powerful attacker. The Spanish club offer the Spurs a season-long loan which is doubtful to attract the latter. Instead, the Spurs’ bid is the same € 16 mln they bought him for from Spartak Moscow.

Spartak — Mlada Boleslav 2:0

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2 goals by Denis Boyarintsev brought FC Spartak Moscow a win in a friendly with Czech Mlada Boleslav in Austria.

Goals: Boyarintsev (17, 28)

Spartak: Pletikosa, Parshivliuk (Rodriguez, 46’), Stranzl (Fathi 46’), Makeev (Kudryashov, 46’), Saenko (Prudnikov, 46’), Kovalchuk (Sabitov, 46’), Pavlenko (Dzyuba, 46’), Ananidze (Ryzhkov, 46’), Boyarintsev (Bazhenov, 46’), Yakovlev (Maloyan, 46’).

Mlada Boleslav: Vorel — Kalina, Rolko, Rajnoch, Prempeh — Mendy, Kúdela, Opiela, Mach — Chramosta (41.Táborský), Pecka.

Maidana might get a second chance

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An Argentinian defender Cristian Maidana previously loaned to Spanish Recreativo Huelva will probably return to the Red-Whites to try it one more time. The move is mostly explained by some problems on the left flank of the team’s performance.

Spartak have had the first training in Austria with Vladimir Bystrov and Clemente Rodriguez. An injured Brazilian striker Welliton Soares is soon going to return to the first team.

Spartak meet Krasnodar in Russia Cup

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Finally we have learnt Spartak’s rival in Russia Cup 1/16. This will be FC Krasnodar who won over FC Chernomorets (Novorossiisk) 1:0.

The first leg is scheduled on 15 July in Krasnodar.

Russia come up 6th in FIFA rankings

The Russian National team have leapt over England, Croatia and Argentina and reached the 6th place in the updated FIFA list of national standings!

Brazil have overtaken Spain to return to the top of the FIFA world rankings after a two-year absence, following their Confederations Cup final victory over the United States in South Africa, thus leaving Euro Champions Spain and World Champions Italy in their wake.

Germany, our rival in the World Cup-2010 qualifier, have gone a bit down.

The top 10 in FIFA’s world rankings released Wednesday (previous month’s ranking in parentheses):
1 (5). Brazil — 1672 points
2 (1). Spain — 1590
3 (2). Netherlands — 1379
4 (4). Italy — 1229
5 (3). Germany — 1207
6 (9). Russia — 1161
7 (6). England — 1135
8 (7). Argentina — 1091
9 (10). France — 1082
10 (8). Croatia — 1031
…
153 (156). Liechtenstein — 133

Spartak in Austria

On June 27 FCSM left for Austria till July 5.

24 players are in the first squad now:
Soslan Dzhanaev, Stipe Pletikosa — Martin Jiranek, Clemente Rodriguez, Sergey Parshivlyuk, Evgeny Makeev, Ignas Dedura, Fedor Kudryashov, Malik Fathi, Martin Schtranzl — Vladimir Bystrov, Denis Boyarintsev, Sergey Koval’chuk, Vladislav Ryzhkov, Renat Sabitov, Ivan Saenko, Zhano Ananidze, Aleksandr Pavlenko, Maksim Grigoryev — Nikita Bazhenov, Artem Dzyuba, Artur Maloyan, Welliton, Pavel Yakovlev.

Brazilian attacking midfielder Alex is at his homeland rehabilitating after the ankle sprain.

The team will be staying in Neustift until 5 July. The club plan to play 2 test matches:
Spartak – Mlada Boleslav (Czechia) July 2 in Angerberg. Kick-off: 18:00
Spartak – Maccabi (Haifa, Israel) July 3 in Kundl. Kick-off: 18:30

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANATOLY MIKHAILOVICH!

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June 27 is the B-Day of an ex-Spartak Moscow and Soviet Union National forward Anatoly Ilyin. Anatoly is Honored Master of Sports, A product of the “Trudovye Rezervy” youth system.

Ilyin played for Spartak in 1949—1962 with 254 caps and 88 scores. USSR Champion (5 times) and Cup Winner (2). Coached Spartak Reserves in 1963—1996.

We wish You all the best and good health

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“El Zar” Mostovoi about present Spartak

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— You don’t conceal your ambition as a coach…

— This is a standard situation: once you stop playing and want to try yourself as a coach. And I have such an idea. Well, I don’t know if I could make it.

— Anyone approached you on this idea?

— No. Still like I said I’m free to consider approaches.

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