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Champions League sat in Luja
The first match of the Champions League has been played in Moscow - the final of this prestigious tournament will be held next year on May 21 in Luzhniki
The first match of the Champions League has been played in Moscow - the final of this prestigious tournament will be held next year on May 21 in Luzhniki. Not a single Russian stadium has never accepted matches of such a rank. Spartak started in the league playing with the Scottish "Celtic".
Before the election of Sochi, the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics, all our attempts to get any pathos competition suffered permanent failures. So it was with the 2008 football championship, with the 2012 summer Olympics and a lot more. (The world hockey championship, which has been held in the spring in Moscow with Mytishchi, does not count: no more than a dozen countries play hockey at a serious level, one of which is doomed to hold this event every ten years.) However, it seems that numerous commissions have been tormented with us not in vain, and there are no positive issues in their rejecting conclusions: if eight modern stadiums slipped: if eight modern stadiums In eight cities it is not gained, then in Moscow there is at least "Luzhniki". If all of Moscow is structurally towards the Olympics - against the backdrop of London with Paris and Madrid - is not ready, then the main Olympic arena did not cause any special complaints. And at some stage, in a single version, the scream "Let me at least something!" He was heard. We cannot entrust Euro 2008, but you will probably be able to cope with one match.
This choice was made three years ago. And now, “Luzhniki” would have to be spinning as the main club stadium of the Eurosol-2007/2008: it makes sense to compete not for a one-time match, albeit the final, but for a whole huge tournament that precedes it. And for this there is one simple way, as the rules for playing football, the path: the stadium should be “played” during the group stage. That is, his master, Spartak, must first go through the preliminary stage.
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Yes, here's the bad luck: in rivals in the third qualification round, the lot chose the Spartakians of the Scottish champion - "Celtic". We are here, in every possible way, we are trying to raise the rating of our championship, we spray ourselves all spring with the summer, but, as autumn is suitable, it turns out that our clubs are still not very able to compete with European ones-and not only with grades, but also middle peasants.
Back in 1996, Glasgow Rangers lay down on the same Liga of Alania-and then almost the entire budget of North Ossetia worked on the Vladikavkaz club. One of the shadow creators of the Russian Championship of Alania -95 Sergey Takoev told the author: “When in the 95th I was a banker and could subsidize the club with almost any money, since they later guaranteed to be returned from the budget, I worked for a victorious idea with a frantic excitement. But when seven years later, as a state official, I had to find funds to repay the debts to state employees for that championship year, I was forced to look at this idea from a slightly different angle of view. ” “Rangers” then figured out “Alania” with all the cruelty: 3: 1 at home and 7: 2 (!!!) at a party. And it was all the same third round, for the exit from which about $ 3 million was paid. So only two unsuccessful matches, it turns out, it turns out, put on the ears a budget of a rather big republic!
Today's “Spartak”, where Leonid Fedun, vice-president of Lukoil, acts as the sole owner, does not need money so much as the image. The club believes that they are simply obliged to be in the main champion league net. The team comes first with a margin of five points, the difficulties of the middle of the season were overcome by changing the coach, specifically under the league the ten millionth Brazilian young man Velliton was bought-that we have some Scots, who barely managed to play a couple of rounds in the only starting outskirts of their outskirts!
On the Celtic, on an unusual artificial lawn for him, played with Spartak quite on his own and even led in the expense. But everything ended with a completely comfortable draw - 1: 1. And as the head coach of Spartak said, the debutant of the Champions League in this capacity, Stanislav Cherchesov: “In order to play from the first to the last seconds in the same breath with the“ Celtic ”, we must constantly meet with rivals of the same level. I hope you understand me? .. "
While we all understood about our championship. Two weeks later, when the return match in Glasgow will be held, we will probably understand about the Champions League.