A black mark for the goalkeeper, real football and a bitter future
25 years ago the last official match in history between Russia and Ukraine took place 25 years ago, on October 9, 1999, the national team goalkeeper Alexander Filimonov, in the last minutes of the final match with Ukraine, failed to cope with a simple cross by Andrei Shevchenko and independently threw the ball into his own goal. This unexpectedly monstrous mistake, which did not allow our team to go to Euro 2000, literally plunged fans from Moscow to Yakutsk into a moral crisis. October 9, 1999.