MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti football expert Marc...
and Spartak Moscow have postponed ambitious plans for new stadiums, with Spartak"s president, Leonid Fedun, saying it would be "madness" to continue construction in the current financial climate.So, notwithstanding recent UEFA Cup success for Russian teams, was Wenger way off the mark? Or does Russian club football still have a glorious future?
Despite the fiscal gloom, Sergei Yegorov, head of the Sovetski Sport paper"s football department, believes that Champions League success is realistic, if perhaps some way off yet.
"We have to take it step-by-step," he told me the day before the Barcelona-Manchester United clash. "It"s a matter of economics. If we come out of the crisis, and the sport continues to develop, and we can attract star players, I see no reason why a Russian club can"t eventually win the Champions League."
"I can"t be as exact as Wenger and say it will happen within the next ten years, but CSKA"s 2005 UEFA Cup win and Zenit"s victory
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