big upset as barcelona loses 2-1 at home to fk rubin kazan. barcelona won the champions league last year (which again is the yearlong tournament with top teams from all the european top leagues). from the little research ive done they seem to be an upstart in the russian league. apparently teams outside of moscow that win are few and far between, like twice in the leagues history. not sure how long the league has been in existence though. this team is from tatarstan, the country! anybody catch wind of their independence movement?
loved this story on their wikipage:
"In September 2009, Rubin were the unknowing participants in a bizarre transfer saga, involving four Levski Sofia players (Zhivko Milanov, Youssef Rabeh, Darko Tasevski and Ze Soares). The Bulgarian champions allegedly received a fax, supposedly from the Kazan team, offering to buy the footballers. The quoted sum was 7000 euro. On 20 September 2009, the four players, accompanied by a Levski representative, travelled to Moscow to undergo a medical in a local clinic, but the deal allegedly fell through, as the phony Rubin representative offered lower salaries than those that were originally agreed upon. Official Rubin representatives denied any knowledge of the whole affair, maintaining that they did not even know about the players in question. Thus, it turned out that Levski had fallen victims to fraudsters. It is speculated that the incident was masterminded to defraud bookmakers by placing large bets against Levski in their game against CSKA."
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loved this story on their wikipage:
"In September 2009, Rubin were the unknowing participants in a bizarre transfer saga, involving four Levski Sofia players (Zhivko Milanov, Youssef Rabeh, Darko Tasevski and Ze Soares). The Bulgarian champions allegedly received a fax, supposedly from the Kazan team, offering to buy the footballers. The quoted sum was 7000 euro. On 20 September 2009, the four players, accompanied by a Levski representative, travelled to Moscow to undergo a medical in a local clinic, but the deal allegedly fell through, as the phony Rubin representative offered lower salaries than those that were originally agreed upon. Official Rubin representatives denied any knowledge of the whole affair, maintaining that they did not even know about the players in question. Thus, it turned out that Levski had fallen victims to fraudsters. It is speculated that the incident was masterminded to defraud bookmakers by placing large bets against Levski in their game against CSKA."
- dave 10-20-2009 10:08 pm