The Blizzard: Spartak Moscow 2-1 Dynamo Kiev, 1989
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 2 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We shine a light on some underappreciated contributors to European football on today’s episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard, alongside BBC and Okko Sport contributor Sasha Goryunov!
Sasha joins us to discuss the standout game he remembers from a childhood growing up in the Soviet Union, as Spartak Moscow ensured they won the 1989 Soviet League with victory over Dynamo Kiev. Dynamo were managed by the revolutionary tactical thinker Valeriy Lobanovskyi, who was among the early adopters of computers for statistical analysis and a pioneer of pressing football. He lined up against the 35 year-old Oleg Romantsev, the coach who brought an air of calm to the Spartak dressing room. What unfolded was a chaotic game rounded off by a Valeri Shmarov free-kick worthy of winning any title.
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| 0:00.0 | И футбольное обозрение присоединяется многочисленным поздравлением с победой. |
| 0:12.0 | The voters of Moscow in their first pre-election have overwhelmingly chosen Boris Yeltsin |
| 0:17.0 | to represent them in the new Soviet parliament. |
| 0:20.0 | He won 89% of the votes, soundly beating the official Communist Party candidate. |
| 0:25.0 | Он сказал, что это prove is the need to speed up reforms. |
| 0:28.0 | Mr. Gorbachev, who had him sacked from his party jobs, |
| 0:31.0 | says not everyone may be pleased with the election results, |
| 0:34.0 | but the Soviet people have spoken. |
| 0:48.0 | It was to bond wholness drass in the north of the city |
| 0:51.0 | but most pulling us hurried to check what was happening. |
| 0:54.0 | В этом случае, что East Germans with permission to travel, |
| 0:57.0 | were filtered in and out of the country. |
| 1:00.0 | But tonight, there were no filters, no checks, |
| 1:02.0 | and midnight the border was thrown open |
| 1:04.0 | and the crowds surged through the open gates. |
| 1:07.0 | Искорая половина матча, началась от таками хозяев Полин. |
| 1:11.0 | Спорт так получил право на штрафной |
| 1:13.0 | и кузнецов изменил направление полета Мичан. |
| 1:16.0 | Один, один. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Greatest Games podcast |
| 1:25.0 | on Football Ambul daily in association |
| 1:27.0 | with the Blizzard, my name is Marcus Speller, opposite me |
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