Spartak Moscow

Download or read book Spartak Moscow written by Robert Edelman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative freedom in a society that championed conformity. This was particularly the case for the supporters of Spartak, which emerged from the rough proletarian Presnia district of Moscow and spent much of its history in fierce rivalry with Dinamo, the team of the secret police. To cheer for Spartak, Edelman shows, was a small and safe way of saying "no" to the fears and absurdities of high Stalinism; to understand Spartak is to understand how soccer explains Soviet life. Champions of the Soviet Elite League twelve times and eleven-time winner of the USSR Cup, Spartak was founded and led for seven decades by the four Starostin brothers, the most visible of whom were Nikolai and Andrei. Brilliant players turned skilled entrepreneurs, they were flexible enough to constantly change their business model to accommodate the dramatic shifts in Soviet policy. Whether because of their own financial wheeling and dealing or Spartak's too frequent success against state-sponsored teams, they were arrested in 1942 and spent twelve years in the gulag. Instead of facing hard labor and likely death, they were spared the harshness of their places of exile when they were asked by local camp commandants to coach the prisoners' football teams. Returning from the camps after Stalin's death, they took back the reins of a club whose mystique as the "people's team" was only enhanced by its status as a victim of Stalinist tyranny. Edelman covers the team from its days on the wild fields of prerevolutionary Russia through the post-Soviet period. Given its history, it was hardly surprising that Spartak adjusted quickly to the new, capitalist world of postsocialist Russia, going on to win the championship of the Russian Premier League nine times, the Russian Cup three times, and the CIS Commonwealth of Independent States Cup six times. In addition to providing a fresh and authoritative history of Soviet society as seen through its obsession with the world's most popular sport, Edelman, a well-known sports commentator, also provides biographies of Spartak's leading players over the course of a century and riveting play-by-play accounts of Spartak's most important matches-including such highlights as the day in 1989 when Spartak last won the Soviet Elite League on a Valery Shmarov free kick at the ninety-second minute. Throughout, he palpably evokes what it was like to cheer for the "Red and White."

Download or read book SOCCER WORLD 2011/12 written by Lorenzo Gravela and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOCCER WORLD 2011/12 contiene i profili di circa 400 formazioni con anagrafica di oltre 16.000 calciatori distribuiti in 30 campionati tra europei, nord-sudamericani ed asiatici aggiornati alla stagione 2011/12. I dati societari di tutti i club presenti, gli organici delle squadre minuziosamente aggiornati, le disposizioni in campo dei giocatori e tutti i principali movimenti di calciomercato, sono il punto di forza della pubblicazione. La completa analisi statistica della stagione internazionale 2010/11 grazie ai tabellini con i marcatori di tutte le partite giocate unita alle classifiche di Prima e Seconda Divisione di ogni campionato, promozioni e retrocessioni, le coppe nazionali, le presenze e le reti di tutti i giocatori e le statistiche delle ultime 10 stagioni per ogni campionato e le coppe internazionali rendono il tutto qualcosa di completo ed unico nel suo genere. Il tutto contribuisce a rendere questo volume forse il più originale per quanto concerne le squadre di calcio.

Download or read book SOCCER WORLD 2012/2013 written by Lorenzo Gravela and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer World è l'unico annuario statistico sul calcio internazionale prodotto interamente in Italia. Forte di una quantità innumerevole di statistiche il volume permette di conoscere informazioni spesso non comuni ad altre pubblicazioni del settore come per esempio i dati societari di tutti i club presenti, gli organici minuziosamente aggiornati di oltre 500 squadre e l'analisi tattica di ognuna di esse con le disposizioni in campo dei giocatori. Inoltre l'elenco dei più importanti movimenti del calciomercato estivo uniti ad un resoconto dettagliato della stagione precedente con il palmarès di ogni squadra rendono ogni edizione una piccola pietra miliare nel suo genere. Utile sia per l'esperto del settore che per il semplice appassionato. Imperdibile!

Download or read book APPENDICE STATISTICA 2012/2013 - Soccer World Special Edition written by Lorenzo Gravela and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un'altra stagione è terminata e SOCCER WORLD pubblica un nuovo volume di pura statistica, contenente i risultati con i tabellini di tutte le partite dei 32 campionati più famosi al mondo. Le classifiche complete di Serie A e Serie B di ognuno di essi unite a quelle dei marcatori ed agli esiti di tutte le competizioni nazionali, permetteranno di capire ancora meglio quale sia stato l'andamento stagionale di ogni formazione. La radiografia di tutti i calciatori corredata da presenze, reti, minuti giocati, ammonizioni ed espulsioni ricevute assieme all'elenco completo di tutti gli avvicendamenti degli allenatori, aiuteranno il lettore a comprendere quali siano stati i punti di forza o meno della propria squadra del cuore. Infine la sezione riguardante le coppe internazionali con le statistiche della Champions League e dell'Europa League 2012/13 oltre alla Coppa Libertadores ed a molte altre competizioni ancora, sarà utile per avere ancora una volta un quadro più completo sul panorama calcistico globale.

Download or read book 1972 written by Scott Morrison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The legacy of the greatest hockey series ever played, fifty years later, with stories from the players that shed new light on those incredible games and the era. "Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot. Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot. Right in front...they score! Henderson has scored for Canada!" These immortal words, spoken to hockey fans around the world by the legendary broadcaster Foster Hewitt, capture the final-seconds goal scored by Paul Henderson that won the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union. Hockey fans know the moment well, but the story of those amazing eight games has never been fully told--until now. The series was the first of its kind, and one of the most dramatic and impactful sport showdowns in history. With Soviet hockey dominating international ice, this series was meant to settle the debate, once and for all, over who owned the game. It was Canada's best against the Soviets' for the first time. And in the shadow of the Cold War and ongoing tensions, this was about more than eight games of hockey: it was war. When Canada's finest players faced down the Soviets, expectations were high. This was supposed to be easy, but after the disappointing first four games on home ice with only one win for Canada, victory seemed out of reach. With the final four games in Moscow, what followed was a tug-of-war battle that lasted to the dying seconds of Game 8. Now, five decades after this historic event, it's time to reflect on the legacy of the Summit Series. Veteran journalist and analyst Scott Morrison tells the story from a fresh perspective, with a storyteller's eye to what it meant to Canada then, and what it means now. Filled with the memories of the players and others involved with the series, he shows how it changed hockey forever, and challenged Canada's sense of identity and place in the world."--

Download or read book IIHF where Countries Come to Play written by IIHF (Int'l Ice Hockey Federation) and published by Fenn-M&S. This book was released on 2011 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colossal Guide includes information on every top level event, every IIHF member nation, and, indeed, every player to appear in even a single game since international hockey first took hold in 1920. In all, more than 12,000 players are included, as well as every coach, every referee, every linesman and every stat imaginable. The 2012 IIHF Guide and Record Book is the official and only complete source of information for international hockey. It covers all top-level events from the Olympics to World Championships to junior events, from men's hockey to women's hockey, from 1920 to the past and present seasons. At 640 pages, it contains the scores and standings for every international game and event ever contested, the statistics for every player, coach, and on-ice official in IIHF competition history, and the results and histories of every nation that has ever participated in an IIHF event. Full of information on every aspect of the international game, this is the one and only source fans will need if they are interested in the World Junior Championship, Team Canada, or any other aspect of the international game. With a special section on the World Junior Championships taking place in Alberta this Christmas, this is the most important book hockey fans will need this season.

Download or read book The World through Soccer written by Tamir Bar-On and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts. In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others. Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.