On their return to Moscow, a huge crowd was waiting for the Russian team that made the country proud of its football abilities and potential. No one would have imagined that Russia would be in the semi-final of Euro 2008. But Dutch headcoach Guus Hiddink continued to prove his coaching credentials by turning the team [...]

The Russians were never favourites against one of the best teams in Euro 2008. Spain has been bringing up world-class talent for ages, but it has never managed to dominate Europe in recent times. Their last, and only, success in the European Championship came back in 1964 when they defeated the USSR by 2-1. In [...]

These were the line-ups fielded by the Russia and Spain coaches. The winner of the match would meet Germany in the final, which will be played on Sunday 29th June in Vienna. Russia have just eliminated Holland, while the Spanish defeated World Champions Italy. Having met before in the group-stage, Spain beat Russia by 4-1, [...]

This is not the first time that promises are being made to teams’ players to incentivate them to give all their best in matches. In tonight’s match against Spain, Russia are seen as underdogs, but as could be seen against Holland, Hiddink’s army are no easy team to beat. Scoring against Iker Casillas, one of [...]

Russia boss Guus Hiddink, known as the Magician in Russia, will have no injury worries ahead of the match against Spain. However, he will be without suspended duo Kolodin and Torbinski. Spain and Russia/USSR have met nine times in their history, with the Spaniards winning 5 times while Russia won just once. Spain are on [...]

Here are the Line-ups for the Quarter-Final between Holland and Russia which until 14th minute is 0-0.
Russia team:

1-Igor Akinfeyev; 22-Alexander Anyukov, 8-Denis Kolodin, 4-Sergei Ignashevich, 18-Yuri Zhirkov; 17-Konstantin Zyryanov, 11-Sergei Semak, 20-Igor Semshov, 9-Ivan Saenko; 10-Andrei Arshavin, 19-Roman Pavlyuchenko.
Netherlands team:

1-Edwin van der Sar; 21-Khalid Boulahrouz, 2-Andre Ooijer, 4-Joris Mathijsen, 5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 17-Nigel de [...]

Russia will make a stop in Burghausen on their way to this summer’s European Championships, the Russian national team, led by Guus Hiddink, will move into their training camp in Rottach-Egern on the 25th May, where they will prepare for their Euro 2008 Group D matches.
The will play two friendly games against Serbia and Lithuania, [...]

Aleksandr Kerzhakov will be the star player for the Russian squad in the European Championships 2008. Coach Guus Hiddink will ensure that he brings the best out of the striker and lead the country to honours. Aleksandr is 25 years old, born on the 27th November 1982. He has started his career in 2001 at [...]