European Cup Preview - Group D The Reign in Spain
Sunday, June 8th, 2008With football fever in full swing, here’s the fourth and final installment on the European Cup preview. Today we look at Group D, which I consider to be the weakest group.
Team Profiles:
Russia:
I had to go to the book for this one, but no country boasts a more fascinating footballing history than the Russians. Under the guise of the Soviet Union, Russia was home to some of the most inventive and oddest training methods this world has ever seen.
Professor Anatoly Zelentsov of Ukrainian team Dynamo Kiev devised a computer game of moving dots and boxes that was used to select the USSR’s 1988 Euro squad. A baffling selection to many journalists of the day, that team surprised everyone and made it to the finals.
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