1 Barba, 2 Barba, 3 Barbarouses
Article in Russian about the transfer. Google translate throws in some pearlers such as "Woman going to carry in Ossetia? It will arrive next month".
Apparently the Barbarouses name is famous in the region, with Kosta's namesake known as 'The Great Ossetian'. I think he's a poet or something like that. Big shoes to fill Kosta!
But there's a lot of money in Russian football now, and if he can manage to get himself on the radar of the bigger Russian clubs would be a good thing for both him and NZ football.
team is 2nd in first div at the moment tho. promotion. hopefully
But there's a lot of money in Russian football now, and if he can manage to get himself on the radar of the bigger Russian clubs would be a good thing for both him and NZ football.
team is 2nd in first div at the moment tho. promotion. hopefully
They're in the qualifying rounds of the Europe League as well after losing in the Russian Cup Final last year.
Unlikely. The Ruskies are using this season to transition to the normal European football season from 2012/2013 (which will adopt the autumn start/early summer finish common in most European leagues).
This season started in March 2011, and will continue until the European spring of 2012 (meaning they have an extra six months this season, for which they'll introduce a Championship top 8 and Relegation bottom 8 playoffs - for this transitional season only).
Kosta wouldn't have been worth nearly as much after one more season warming the bench.
Caucasus (Ossetia is part of that) is really a very troubled region of Russia. Chechnya now is relatively calm region. That is why there are plenty of legionnaires in Chechen football club Terek Grozny. For another thing Dutch football star Ruud Gullit was appointed head coach of Terek before this season but has already been sacked due to poor results.
[QUOTE=el grapadura] Unlikely. The Ruskies are using this season to transition to the normal European football season from 2012/2013 (which will adopt the autumn start/early summer finish common in most European leagues).
This season started in March 2011, and will continue until the European spring of 2012 (meaning they have an extra six months this season, for which they'll introduce a Championship top 8 and Relegation bottom 8 playoffs - for this transitional season only).
Rightly. Some addition: the 13th and 14th placed teams in the Russian Premier League will play the two-leg play-off matches against the 4th and 3rd placed teams respectively of the first division, so there're not bad chances that Alania will play next season in the RPL.
By the collapse of the Soviet Union, Spartak Vladikavkaz were the only non-Muscovite Russian club competing in the old Soviet Top League. This had been their second and last season in the STL; before that the only other season they competed in the top Soviet division was in 1970.
Their most successful season was 1995 when they managed to grab the Russian Premier League champions title, after several years of Spartak Moscow domination having previously won a silver medal for the second place in 1992 and 1996. However in the qualification stages of the UEFA Champions League Alania lost 10-3 on aggregate to Rangers F.C..
However, after departure of manager Valery Gazzaev and several players from the club, Alania weren't able to get anywhere near the trophy again, finishing at the bottom half of the table.
Previously, the club was known as Spartak Ordzhonikidze (1937�1990), Spartak Vladikavkaz (1990�1994 and 2006), Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (1995�1996 and 2003�2006), Alania Vladikavkaz (1997�2003 and since 2007).
In season 2005 Alania was relegated from Russian Premier League after 15 seasons of top flight football.
On 14 February 2006 Alania and another First Division club, Lokomotiv Chita, were denied professional licences by Professional Football League and excluded from professional football for juridicial irregularities.[1] On 22 February PFL decided to replace Alania and Lokomotiv with Lada Togliatti and Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, the runners-up in the Second Division.[2] The Russian Football Union did not endorse the exclusion and on 28 February decided to keep Alania and Lokomotiv in the First Division, giving them another chance to fulfill the league requirements.[3] Consequently, on 6 March PFL decided to extend the First Division from 22 to 24 clubs, including Alania, Lokomotiv, Lada, and Mashuk-KMV.[4]
However, on 20 March the Russian Football Union finally decided to exclude Alania and Lokomotiv from the league. This decision was announced by the Professional Football League on 21 March, five days before the start of the First Division.[5]
Alania underwent reorganization, were renamed Spartak Vladikavkaz and on 4 April were admitted into the Russian Second Division, South zone.
After finishing first in the South Zone of 2nd division in the 2006 the team was promoted to Russian First Division and again renamed to Alania.
In 2009, Alania achieved 3rd place in the Russian First Division, just below the nominal promotion places. However, due to FC Moscow being expelled from the Russian Premier League, Alania were chosen to take their place. Their season back in the top flight was not successful and only Sibir Novosibirsk finished below them, thus going back to the First Division; despite the subsequent withdrawal of Amkar Perm and Saturn Moscow Oblast, Alania was refused a reprieve by the RPL.
In the spring of 2011, Alania qualified for the final of the 2010�11 Russian Cup, where it will meet PFC CSKA Moscow. CSKA already qualified for the UEFA Champions League spot, and therefore Alania secured a spot in the 2011�12 UEFA Europa League regardless of the final result. That is the second occasion in Russian soccer history when a second-level division team qualified for European competition (the first one was FC Terek Grozny). Alania achieved a rare feat of reaching the cup final without scoring a single regular-time goal. On three occasions they won a penalty shootout after playing the game with a score of 0-0 and once they received a bye after their opponent team went bankrupt.
have to agree. guys like keisuke honda have been trying to break into 'real' europe for a while now and he's at a top russian club. it will be very hard but hey worth a shot. i trust he has an out clause???
Google translate:
It will arrive next month. But to live always in Vladikavkaz can not - she will finish college. I hope that next year it will move into Ossetia.
You know that you are the namesake of the great educator of the Ossetian?
Yes, I heard (laughs). Even saw a monument. This is a very pleasant coincidence. I think 50% of Ossetians I have (laughs). Of course, I will not as famous as your bones, but I will sincerely try to please fans of Vladikavkaz.
National Team :
I assume that means "Are you bringing your girlfriend with you?"
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You know that you are the namesake of the great educator of the Ossetian?
Looked it up - Ossetia's answer to Shakespeare was Kosta Khetagurov.Doloras2011-07-19 11:21:38
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/937418/manchester-clubs-interested-in-Kosta---agent?cc=3436playwithFire2011-07-26 23:37:38
Ha, you have to read the article, playwithfire is playingwithus
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Would of probably have to have been registered before a certain date to play Europa quals.
Would of probably have to have been registered before a certain date to play Europa quals.
Hmm yeah thats what I was thinking. Hope you're right.