Russian Football News Podcast

This week on the pod, Richard takes over hosting duties and he is joined by Football Radar's Anna Konovalova. Anna is a Moscow-native Spartak fan and an expert in Russian, German and Austrian football.

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@iamanch

@FRFussballAnna

@HexenkesselPod - Anna's pod on German football in Russian

Thus, the pair discuss the swathes of German specialists taking over at RPL clubs, discuss parallels between Austrian & Russian football and evaluate the Hypercube reforms suggesting following that of the Austrian Bundesliga, and finish off with evaluating all the big events of the past week including; Rui Vitoria's sacking, Paolo Vanoli's arrival at Spartak and all the action from the Dynamo - Zenit match at the top of the table.

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This week on the pod, it's a red & white takeover as James is joined by Hanu & Alexey to discuss Spartak's second-ever European Group Table-Topping campaign before checking out the rest of the midweek European results.

Hanu - @H4nuu & @PodcastWTI

Alexey - @loonyspectre

Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

04:15 - Spartak's Table-Topping European Campaign

32:34 - Zenit's draw against Chelsea

50:40 - Lokomotiv's Disappointing Campaign

1:06:35 - Outro

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On David's last pod before his Christmas vacation, we take a look at what to expect from Tomas Zorn in his "new" role at Lokomotiv and ask whether or not Ralf Rangnick still exerts his influence at the club from afar. We also review all the latest in the RPL and take a look back at the FNL Winter part of the season as a whole with their break already underway.

Timestamps:

01:24 - Zorn's "New" Role

20:48 - FNL Winter Review

37:02 - RPL Action

37:10 - Khimki 3-3 Krasnodar

40:13 - Arsenal 3-1 Lokomotiv

45:08 - Rubin 2-3 Dynamo

52:13 - News in Brief

57:03 - Outro

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This week, Rich returns as we all dissect the midweek European games involving Russian sides as Spartak defeat Napoli again. Then, we quickly look at Russia's opponents in the WC 2022 Playoffs draw before delving deep into Ralf Rangnick's time at Lokomotiv & impending move to Manchester United.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

03:05 - Malmo 1-1 Zenit

14:11 - Spartak 2-1 Napoli

33:06 - Lokomotiv 0-3 Lazio

37:00 - 2022 World Cup Playoff Draw

40:18 - Rangnick to Manchester United

58:51 - Outro

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James & David focus on the Sbornaya Senior, U21 & U19 squads in an International Football special. We do dive into the RPL right at the end but as the last game week was almost 2 weeks ago now that is old hat, as David stans Karpin & Gladyshev for 20 minutes instead.

Timestamps:

Intro - 00:00

Sbornaya - 01:10

U21s - 18:17

U19s - 37:18

RPL Catch-Up - 43:49

Outro - 55:51

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It was a mixed week in Europe this time out, as Zenit lost to Juve while Lokomotiv and Spartak drew with Galatasary and Leicester respectively away from home.

We also take another look at the upcoming Russia squad and recap all of the RPL Round 13 Action from the last week.

Also, apologies for James' sore throat this week, blame him for going to two away games and shouting at Sunderland for losing 5-1 & 3-0 in them...

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

00:50 - European Matches Roundup

02:10 - Juve 4-2 Zenit

09:01 - Galatasary 1-1 Lokomotiv

15:33 - Leicester 1-1 Spartak

25:40 - League Coefficients

30:24 - Karpin's Russia Squad Reduced to 30

37:48 - RPL Round 13

38:36 - Rubin 1-0 CSKA

41:30 - Arsenal 1-2 Sochi

45:16 - Krasnodar 0-1 Krylia

49:02 - Zenit 4-1 Dynamo

52:34 - News in Brief

54:51 - Outro

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James & Richard deep-dive into the big game of the weekend as Zenit defeated Spartak 7-1 & covered the rest of the RPL games before exploring the gargantuan 41-man Russia squad.

Timestamps:

00:57 - Zenit 7-1 Spartak

25:01 - CSKA 3-1 Krylia

34:50 - Akhmat 1-0 Ural

38:59 - Dinamo v Zenit Preview

47:06 - Karpin's 41-man Squad

59:51 - Russian Cup Next Round

01:00:30 - "Shomurodov" Controversy

01:02:17 - Outro

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We look back at a d disappointing week in Europe as Spartak lost 4-3 to Leicester, Zenit fell 1-0 to a late Dejan Kulusevski goal for Juve and Lokomotiv also conceded late in a 1-0 loss against Galatasary. We also unpack all the RPL action from last weekend.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:31 - Spartak 3-4 Leicester

19:18 - Zenit 0-1 Juventus

33:36 - Lokomotiv 0-1 Galatasary

49:40 - RPL Round 11

01:13:02 - Outro

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This week, we discuss the Russia games, Richard writes a biography of Markus Gisdol, David waxes lyrical about some players nobody has heard of before and James forgets how league tables work in a hectic end to the pod.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:20 - Russia 1-0 Slovakia

14:34 - Slovenia 1-2 Russia

25:02 - Russia U21 Matches

32:38 - Markus Gisdol in at Lokomotiv

48:47 - Latest FNL Action

59:03 - PFL Broken Website

01:02:02 - Outro

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James & David cover all the latest goings-on in Russian Football, mainly Lokomotiv & Marko Nikolic parting ways, analysing a weekend of upsets in the RPL before discussing the cavalcade of changes that engulfed Valery Karpin's Russia squad in the past two weeks.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

01:18 - Nikolic Leaves Loko

23:03 - Loko 1-2 Rostov

28:27 - Rubin 0-1 Nizhny

35:50 - Dynamo 0-1 Krylia

42:23 - CSKA 0-0 Krasnodar

48:39 - Zenit 1-2 Sochi

57:28 - Russia Squad Changes

01:08:50 - Pryadkin Resigns as RPL President

01:12:24 - Outro

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