Soviet Union

• Soviet giants have enjoyed mixed fortunes since the Iron Curtain fell

  January 19, 2013

  The domestic football league of the old USSR was a vast, vibrant, and powerful competition, containing as it did clubs such as the Moscow giants Dynamo, Spartak, CSKA – and occasionally Torpedo – as well as influential teams from the republics, like the Dynamos of Kiev, Tbilisi, and Minsk.

• Soviet era football: a brief history of Ararat Yerevan

  October 2, 2011

  A look behind the Iron Curtain to an age when, for a short period of time, Armenian side Ararat Yerevan were the strongest team in the Soviet Union.