Football

“A serious team of former Spartak players needs to be created around Romanov” – Shalimov

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1 week ago

December 23, 2025

Thomas

“A serious team of former Spartak players needs to be created around Romanov” – Shalimov

Vadim Romanov / Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexander Vilf

Former Russian national team player Igor Shalimov said on Match TV that Spartak needs to create a coaching staff from former players of the Moscow team.

In November, Dejan Stankovic left the post of head coach of Spartak. Vadim Romanov was appointed acting head coach of the team.

— A serious team needs to be created around Romanov, including Andrei Tikhonov. We need to create a Spartak aura. Maybe then things will work out. Now Spartak is at a dead end, so they need their own. We have been talking about them for 20 years, but they are all foreigners, foreigners – they come and go. We need those who have gone through the Spartak school.

Romanov needs to be strengthened so that he doesn’t have young guys behind him, but more serious ones. But at the same time, without pretensions to become a head coach, to sit on the sidelines. I said that I can help Romanov, but this is only because of Spartak. I won’t go to another coach as an assistant, but I’m ready to help Spartak. It is necessary to create a team of Spartak players: Tikhonov, Eduard More. And Francis Cahigao watches foreigners,” Shalimov said on the air of the “Everyone for the Match!” program. on Match TV.

Spartak is sixth in the Russian Championship standings with 29 points.

Watch live broadcasts of MIR RPL matches on the Match TV and MATCH PREMIER TV channels, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

Source: Sportbox

Thomas

Thomas Astudillo is a sports journalist and author who writes for Sportish. He has a deep love and knowledge of sports, and is known for his engaging and informative writing on the latest sports news and events.

World Cup

Statistics. UAF announced how many matches Ukrainian national teams will play in 2025

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2 hours ago

December 31, 2025

Kyle

Statistics. UAF announced how many matches Ukrainian national teams will play in 2025

Ukraine national football teams completed 2025and the Ukrainian Football Federation summarize the results.

UAF reported: “In 2025, 156 matches (including friendly matches against clubs) were played by Ukrainian national, junior and youth men’s and women’s football teams, futsal, beach football and amphibious teams.”

Sergei Rebrov’s team had an unsuccessful start to 2025, losing to Belgium in the Nations League play-offs (3:1, 0:3). The blue-yellows played two friendly matches against Canada (2:4) and New Zealand (2:1) in June.

In the autumn, the Ukrainian team qualified for the 2026 World Cup and took second place in the group with France, Iceland and Azerbaijan. The blue-yellows made it to the play-offs to participate in the World Cup. During the year, the team had 5 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses, average score: 17-20.

Statistics: 10 matches of the Ukrainian national team in 2025 (+5=1–4)

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Source: Sport UA

Kyle

I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.

Football

Real Madrid player Mbappe will miss three weeks due to injury – newspaper

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3 hours ago

December 31, 2025

Jon

Real Madrid player Mbappe will miss three weeks due to injury – newspaper

French footballer for Spanish Real Madrid Kylian Mbappe he will miss at least three weeks due to a knee ligament injury. The newspaper L’Equipe reports it.

The attacker will miss the Spanish Super Cup, the matches of which will be played from 7 to 11 January in Saudi Arabia.

Mbappé is 27 years old. On June 3, 2024, the striker signed a contract with Real Madrid as a free agent. From 2018 to 2024 he played for PSG and is the top scorer in the club’s history. As part of the team, the footballer became a five-time champion of France, three-time winner of the National Cup and Super Cup and twice won the League Cup.

Together with the French team, Mbappe won the 2018 World Championship in Russia and won a silver medal at the 2022 World Championship in Qatar.

Source: Soccer Ru

Jon

I’m a sports enthusiast and journalist who has worked in the news industry for over 8 years. I currently work as an author at Sportish and my work focuses mainly on sports news.

Football

Alexey Meleshin headed the Spartak youth team

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4 hours ago

December 31, 2025

Jon

Alexey Meleshin headed the Spartak youth team

Alexey Meleshin appointed head coach of the youth team of the Moscow football club “Spartak”. This was reported by the red and white press service.

Earlier it became known about the resignation from the position of head coach of the team Igor Ryabov. The youth coaching staff included: Ivan Grigoriev AND Dmitry Ratnikov. Meleshin previously headed the Spartak-2 team, but was appointed head coach instead Paolo Figon.

Meleshin is 49 years old, he is a student of Spartak, during his playing career he played for the red and white from 1995 to 2000, and together with the team he became champion of Russia four times. After finishing his career, he worked in Spartak’s youth team as an assistant coach and was also the coach of the red and white academy.

Source: Soccer Ru

Jon

I’m a sports enthusiast and journalist who has worked in the news industry for over 8 years. I currently work as an author at Sportish and my work focuses mainly on sports news.