Former Spartak captain and coach Yegor Titov explained why he does not consider Red-White defender Oleg Ryabchuk stronger than ex-footballer of the Russian national team Yuri Zhirkov in his current form.
— After the match in memory of Tsymbalar, you said that Ryabchuk is not yet better than the current Zhirkov. It turns out that Spartak, with a not very high-quality foreign player, is blocking the way for Khlusevich, who is no worse?
— You probably saw the match in memory of Tsymbalar. Where did Zhirkov’s skill go? Nowhere. I don’t want to say that Ryabchuk is a bad football player. I said this because Yura Zhirkov once again confirmed that he is a great player, it was not for nothing that he played for Chelsea in the Champions League. At the age of 35-36 he played for Zenit! This confirms everything. If you think that today’s Ryabchuk is stronger than Zhirkov, then we can talk to you about this topic.
— It turns out that signing Ryabchuk is a strengthening?
– You provoke me. A person who has come to a new championship needs time. I have been playing football since I was three years old and I see strong football players. And I can see who can’t adapt yet and so on. I hope that Ryabchuk will reveal his potential at Spartak. In our Spartak of the nineties, he would probably have been exposed. Oleg Ivanovich Romantsev did it easily,” Metaratings.ru quotes Titov.
Zhirkov is a five-time champion of Russia, a six-time winner of the country’s Cup and Super Cup, winner of the English Championship, Cup and Super Cup, and winner of the UEFA Cup. With the Russian team he became a bronze medalist at the 2008 European Championship.
Ryabchuk became a Spartak player in early August. Since then, the 25-year-old defender has played seven matches for the team in all tournaments and has not been effective.
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Former Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos He talked about his interaction with Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior and other representatives of Brazil within the scope of the “royal club”.
“The Brazilians aroused my sympathy even as a child. While playing for Real Madrid, I developed excellent relationships with Vinicius, Casemiro and Militao.
It is very easy to find a common language with these guys: they know how to enjoy life, and their mentality is significantly different from that of the Germans.
Casemiro and Vinicius and I understood each other perfectly on the field and developed a unique football bond with Vini.
We communicated warmly in daily life. I believe that if there is no contact between players off the field, it is extremely difficult to achieve harmony in the game.
I used Vini’s high-speed bursts effectively and he masterfully directed my passes,” AS Kroos reports.
Let’s remember that Kroos defended the jersey of Real Madrid from 2014 to 2024. During this decade the German midfielder won the Champions League five times.
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Atalanta and Inter met in the Italian Serie A match. The match ended with the score 0:1.
Marked for guests Martinez (65′).
At the end of the match Atalanta has 22 points, the guests have 36 points.
Atalanta’s next match will be on January 3, 2026 against Roma. Inter will play their next match on 4 January 2026 (the opponent is Bologna).
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The Moscow football club “Spartak” gave permission Theo Bongonde leave the team for free during the winter transfer window. The journalist reported this on his page on the social network Sasha Tavolieri.
The player’s contract with Spartak expires in the summer of 2027.
It should be noted that several foreign clubs are interested in the player and have already sent requests for a free transfer.
Bongonda is 30 years old, joined Spartak in 2023 and played 74 official matches for the club, in which he scored 16 goals and provided 6 assists. The midfielder also played for the Spanish Cadiz and Celta, the Turkish Trabzonspor, the Belgians Genk and Zulte Waregem. As part of Genk in the 2020/21 season, Bongonda became the silver medalist of the Belgian championship and the winner of the national cup.
For the national team of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bongonda played 34 matches, in which he scored 7 goals and provided 1 assist.
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