FC Moskva
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FC Moskva (Russian: Футбольный клуб Москва), is a Russian football club, based in Moscow. Moskva's best result in Russian Premier League is a 5th position in 2005. Dmitry Kirichenko, Moskva's striker, become the league top goalscorer the same year.
History
Since 1924, there was a football club in Moscow sponsored by the automobile plant ZIL, called Torpedo Moscow. In the mid-1990s, when Russia was moving towards free market economy, ZIL could no longer afford to sponsor a Premier League team. Torpedo got sold to the company that owns the giant Luzhniki Stadium, and the new owners moved their home games to Luzhniki as well. A few years later ZIL decided to re-create their own team to play at the traditional Torpedo Stadium, and for a while there were two teams named Torpedo in Moscow, Torpedo-Luzhniki and Torpedo-ZIL. In 2003 ZIL sold the team again to a metal producing company, the team's name was changed to Torpedo-Metallurg. In July 2004 the team's ownership got transferred yet again, this time to the Moscow city government, and a new FC Moskva team got created (Moskva means "Moscow" in Russian).Nicknames
Journalists use to call FC Moskva The Citizens (Russian: ) by analogy with Manchester City F.C.. The colloquial nickname for the club is The Caps (Russian: ), which refers to Moscow government ownership (Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov usually wears cap).2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup
FC Moskva in its first appearance on the European arena will play against the winner of the FC MTZ-RIPO Belarus - FC Shakhtyor Kazakhstan pair on July 1st.Current squad
As of 16 March 2006, according to the [Russian Premier League official website].
External link
- [Official website] ()
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