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...seamless combination of government and business has made a priority of returning the motherland to world football's highest ranks. Zenit boasts a side of national stars, including Andrei Arshavin and Pavel Pogrebnyak, whose dizzying salaries are financed by energy giant Gazprom, the team's owner. Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo are sponsored by their corporate patrons - also from the oil and gas sector - Yukos and Lukoil, respectively. The war chests that such firms bring to the game have led to galloping salary inflation, says midfielder Alexei Smertin - who is leaving London's Fulham for a fatter contract with Lokomotiv...
...also joined the turf wars. More critically FIFA, global football's governing body, could create a worldwide industry for these companies. FIFA has approved 30 facilities with synthetic turf, including the training pitch at Clairefontaine, France's famed football academy, and Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow, home to the Spartak and Torpedo Moscow clubs. Should FIFA approve the surface for all competitions, annual industry sales, now about j300 million, could explode. The European market seems ripe as cash-strapped clubs look for cost-effective ways to keep their pitches playable through the European winter. In the '80s, some clubs tried...
...Barakett reported that the Moscow Spartak team told the Crimson that Harvard was the best squad the Muscovites faced on their American tour, and that included some AHL minor league teams and the Hockey East All-Stars...
Strings and Things: Harvard Coach Bill Cleary is now 4-10 against Minnesota schools....Wednesday's victory stretched Harvard's unbeaten streak over Brown to 10 straight....Over Christmas break, Harvard plays the Spartak Team, one the USSR's top national squads. Spartak has been touring U.S. colleges for the past two weeks....Chris Biotti and Ed Krayer will take time off from the Harvard squad to play with the U.S. junior national team, and won't return to the Crimson until mid-January...UMD has "Power-Play" jackpot contest for the team's fans. As in professional baseball teams...
...Soviet Union's Spartak Hockey Club will visit Harvard from December 22-28 to play in an exhibition tournament at Bright Center...