The national team of the legionnaires of the Russian Football Championship is a combined team of foreign players playing in the Russian Football Championship . At the moment, held two friendly matches.
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First match
The first legionnaires match took place on June 30, 2003 at the Lokomotiv stadium. The winner was to get the Rostelecom Cup (this company was then one of the sponsors of the Russian team). The match was held under the slogan “Together Against Racism” and was part of the UEFA Football Against Racism program [1] . The national team of legionnaires was compiled based on a survey of fans (readers of Sport Express and viewers of NTV + ) [2] [3] . The Russian team became her rival. People with bananas were not allowed into the stadium [4] . Before the match, a video message of the famous black players Ze Roberto , Asamoa , Thuram and Henry took place . The audience (7451 people came) greeted the English judge Graham Poll with a whistle, remembering his decisions during the match on September 1, 2001 between the national teams of Russia and Slovenia as part of the qualifying tournament for the 2002 World Cup . Kerzhakov scored the first goal, having successfully played on finishing after his own blow. Then Bulykin took a double, the legionnaires began to score after the score was 5-0, but they managed to hit Mandrykin ’s goal only twice. After 20 days, the team will hold another friendly match, this time against Israel , it will end in defeat and 16 days before the decisive match of the qualifying tournament for EURO 2004 with Ireland, Valery Gazzayev will resign, in his place will come Georgy Yartsev and withdraw the team to this tournament .
| June 30, 2003 20:45 |
| Lokomotiv (Cherkizovo) Moscow , Russia Spectators: 7 451 Judge: Graham Poll |
Russia | Legionnaires |
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Second Match
The next match the legionnaires team again held against the Russian team , this was the last match of the Yartsev squad before the 2004 European Championship . The winner of this match was also awarded the Rostelecom Cup, in addition to the name of the mini-tournament the prefix “Match of all stars” was added. This time, the composition of the team was weaker and partly consisted of players from the Russian national team [5] . In the middle of the first half, Mostova after a pass by Alenicheva scores a goal, at the end of the half “legionnaires” recoup: Bystrov runs away from Evseev and hits Ovchinnikov’s goal. The score was equal until the middle of the second half, when Aldonin hit the nine of the opponent, and at the end of the half Kerzhakov increases the lead [6] . The legionnaires did not offer strong resistance to the Russians, the latter, after two defeats, will not be able to leave the group at the European Championships.
| June 2, 2004 20:45 |
| Lokomotiv (Cherkizovo) Moscow , Russia Spectators: 3,000 Judge: Valentin Ivanov |
Russia | Legionnaires |
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Notes
- ↑ NEWSru: RFU wants to hold a “match of all stars”
- ↑ Red Army: Midfielder Yaroshik and Rakhimich (about the match between the Russian team and the legionnaires team)
- ↑ True: The national team will be formed by ... fans. Get connected!
- ↑ Sport-Express: Bananas were not allowed into the stadium . Date of treatment November 17, 2018.
- ↑ Text translation of the match on the Euro04 website created by Gazeta.ru
- ↑ Sport Express. Transcript of the match. . Date of treatment November 17, 2018.