Spartak Moscow
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| Full name | FC Spartak Moskva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 84,745 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Yuri Pervak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Aleksandrs Starkovs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Russian Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | RPL, 8th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Spartak Moscow (Russian: Спартак Москва) is considered to be one of the greatest football teams in Soviet and Russian history. In the early days of Soviet football, many government agencies, such as the police, army, railroads, created their own clubs. Spartak Moscow was created in 1922 as a Folk Team, one that would unite people all across the country. The team became the main competitor by 1936, when it won its first USSR title. But the popularity of the sport grew the most in the 1960s USSR. Spartak fared well, winning two championships in that decade. The 1970s were a time that many fans still remember with shivers. In 1976 Spartak was demoted into the lower league due to poor performances. The next season stadiums were still full of people, as the fans stayed with the team during its time in the lower division. Spartak Moscow came back the next year and reclaimed the gold in 1979, beating Dinamo Kiev.
A whole new page in the club’s history started when the USSR was divided and its championship was no more. In Russia, Spartak took the lead role and won 9 titles out of 13. Year after year it also represented Russia in the European tournaments of Champions League, UEFA Cup and Cup Winners' Cup. The problems began when Starostin, the patriarch of the club, died and left the whole enterprise to Oleg Romantsev, who also was a coach. Spartak was involved in financial troubles, which resulted in corruption and the inevitable buyout of the club by a wealthy businessman, who started using the club as a money laundering scheme. He left the club in 2004 and Spartak is starting to slowly regain its old position back.
The Spartak club also has a hockey section, HC Spartak Moscow. It won the Russian championship in 1962, 1967, 1969 and 1976.
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Squad
Goalkeepers
- 1 Dimtry Khomich (Хомич Дмитрий)
- 30 Wojciech Kowalewski (Ковалевски Войцех)
- 46 Alexey Zuev (Зуев Алексей)
Defenders
- 2 Yury Kovtun (Ковтун Юрий)
- 3 Emanuel Pogatetz (Погатец Эмануэль)
- 5 Adrian Mihai Iencsi (Йенчи Адриан Михай)
- 13 Martin Jiranek (Иранек Мартин)
- 17 Clemente Rodriguez (Родригес Клементе)
- 18 Dmitry Parfenov (Парфенов Дмитрий)
- 20 Ignas Dedura (Дедура Игнас)
- 26
Nemanja Vidic (Видич Неманья)
- 29 Evgeny Shpedt (Шпедт Евгений)
Midfielders
- 4 Andrejs Rubins (Рубин Андрей)
- 6 Costin Florin Soava (Шоава Костин Флорин)
- 7 Denis Boyarintcev (Бояринцев Денис)
- 8 Dmitri Alenichev (Аленичев Дмитрий)
- 9 Egor Titov (Титов Егор)
- 11 Alexander Pavlenko (Павленко Александр)
- 14 Alexander Samedov (Самедов Александр)
- 15 Radoslav Kovac (Ковач Радослав)
- 25 Maksim Kalinichenko (Калиниченко Максим)
- 27
Serghei Covalctuc (Ковальчук Сергей)
- 39 Alexey Rebko (Ребко Алексей)
Strikers
- 10 Roman Pavlyuchenko (Павлюченко Роман)
- 19 Fernando Cavenaghi (Кавенаги Фернандо)
- 28 Mihailo Pjanovic (Пьянович Михайло)
- 32 Nikita Bazhenov ((Баженов Никита)
(Russian names in brackets indicate how they're called in the team.)
Honours
- Champion of the USSR 1936 (autumn), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989
- Champion of Russia 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- USSR Cup 1938/1939, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1971, 1992
- Winner of the Russian Cup 1994, 1998, 2003
European Cups
- European Champions League 1/2 Final in 1991
- Cup Winners Cup 1/2 Final in 1993
- UEFA Cup 1/2 Final in 1998
External Links
- English Official website (football) (http://eng.spartak.com)
- Russian Official website (football) (http://rus.spartak.com)
- Official website (hockey) (http://www.spartak.ru)
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