In early November, the Russian Championship took a short pause - to fill it with the semi-finals of the Russian Cup. 12 The teams were divided into three quartets, the winners of which will join Fakel in Novy Urengoy directly in the fight for the trophy. But first, the semi-final, in which Gazprom-Ugra will play in St. Petersburg with two Zeniths and Nizhny Novgorod ASK. Count on success in Read more »
Nothing already decided from a tournament point of view (both teams reached the semi-finals of the Cup of Russia) the final match between Kazan and Surgut suddenly turned into a good show. The hosts put up the best squad available, and the guests suddenly remembered the times, when there were no diagonals in volleyball nature, but there were two binders on the site at once. Vadim Ozhiganov Read more »
In the last match of the first round, Gazprom-Ugra met with the Kazan youth team: Labinsky appeared on the site, Hlyakin, Tolok, Romanovsky, chestnuts, Kononov and Krasilnikov. Someday these names, perhaps, become well known, but so far these are not even rotation players, with the exception of Labinsky and Kononov. From our side, the start was: Ozhiganov, Alekseev, Pawn, Ionov, Makarenko, Inner, Dyakov. However Read more »
Representing Zenit-Kazan, titles must be carefully considered, not to be mistaken. Multiple national champions, Champions League winners, Cup of Russia was taken ten times. Operating, by the way, trophy holders. If we put history aside, and look at the current state of Kazan, then you can see, how Alexey Verbov forms a new wave of winners. Zenit-Kazan has been living without Read more »
When we were naughty with Final Six predictions, did not leave the feeling, that one way or another something must go wrong. the, what we have identified as the weak point of the Kazan "Zenith", in the end it worked - the so-called winner syndrome affected. “The unbeaten streak in all tournaments has exceeded the fourth ten games, and such chains are purely mathematical Read more »
Before the start of the Final Six in Kazan, we, as always, have fun and make predictions. Describing the strengths and weaknesses of each team seems to be a pointless exercise, for a long season, everything has already been studied up and down. But we will try to focus on the most important thing and turn on Vanga's mode, to make it more interesting. Group A The most powerful weapon - Read more »
Playoffs are on, and we are just finishing the summing up of the regular season. It's okay - sometimes it's good to look at an event with a slight delay. And our seven-month-long event requires unhurried reflection, unlike fleeting and emotional knockout games. This is where you will find answers to many questions., that may arise along the way Read more »
We did not have time to sum up the results of the regular season, How did the first playoffs go?. Nothing, we will finish with regularity a bit later, and now five thoughts on the fight for the Final Six Paradox No. 1 The hottest fight was not between neighbors in the standings. Dynamo-LO finished with Yugra-Samotlor without any problems, and Belogorye took out Kuzbass. At the same time finishing Read more »
We continue the conversation after the regular season: today our focus is on teams, who "bounced". That is, they made it to the playoffs and can safely be considered the so-called "strong middle peasants". Here is the youngest team, and the oldest, someone rejoices in success, and someone is upset with the status of the middle peasant. However, all in order. Completely losing leaders (the last door to the locker room was closed by Dmitry Volkov and Read more »
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