FC Dynamo Moscow

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Full name Football Club Dynamo Moscow
Nickname(s) White-Blues, Musora (Cops)
Founded 1923
Ground Dynamo Stadium, Moscow
Capacity 36,000
Chairman Dmitry Ivanov
Manager Andrey Kobelev
League Russian Premier League
2006 RPL, 14th
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Dynamo Moscow (Dinamo Moscow, Dinamo Moskva, Russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian football club based in Moscow. The team play in the Dynamo Stadium in the Russian Premier League, and wear blue and white strips. During the Soviet era it was affiliated with the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) and was a part of Dynamo sports society.

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[edit] History

Dynamo Moscow has its roots in the club Morozovtsi Orekhovo Suevo Moskva founded as a factory team in 1887 by Englishman Clement Charnock. The team was re-named OKS Moskva in 1906 and won a series of Moscow league championships from 1910 to 1914.

After the Russian revolution of 1917 the club eventually found itself under the authority of the Interior Ministry and its head Felix Dzerzhinsky, chief of the Soviet Union's first secret police force, the notorious Cheka. The club was re-named Dinamo Moskva in 1923 and developed some infamy for its intimidating association with the Interior Ministry, often being referred to as Garbage, a Russian criminal slang term for police, by the supporters of other clubs.

Dinamo won the first two Soviet Championships in 1936 and 1937, a Soviet Cup in 1937, and another pair of national titles in 1940 and 1945. They were also the first Soviet club to tour the West and put on an impressive display during a goodwill visit to the United Kingdom in 1945. Complete unknowns, the Soviet players delivered a surprising performance: they drew 3:3 at Chelsea, rode roughshod 10:1 over Cardiff City, beat an Arsenal side reinforced by the presence of Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen by a score of 4:3 in a match played in thick fog, and finally, drew 2:2 with Rangers.

They continued to be a strong side at home after the war and enjoyed their greatest success through the 50's. Dinamo captured another five championships between 1949 and 1959, as well as their second Soviet Cup in 1953. Honours were harder to come by after that time. The club continued to enjoy some success in the Soviet Cup (now the Russian Cup), but has not won a national championship since 1976. Even so, Dinamo's 11 national titles make it the country's third most decorated side behind Dynamo Kiev (13 titles) and Spartak Moscow (12 titles).

[edit] Stadium

Their ground is the historic Dinamo Stadium in Petrovsky Park, which seats 36,000. Despite not having won a league title in over thirty years the club still has a quite extensive, though aging, fan base.

[edit] Team trivia

British diplomat Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart – who played the 1912 championship season for OKS Moskva – was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in 1918 for his role in an alleged plot to kill Lenin. He was saved when the British exchanged him for Maxim Litvinov.

[edit] Honours

  • Soviet championship: 1936, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976
  • Soviet Cup champions: 1937, 1953, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1984
  • Russian Cup champions: 1995
  • USSR Super Cup champions: 1977
  • Cup Winners Cup finalist: 1972

[edit] Notable players

Lev Yashin, arguably the greatest goalkeepers of the game, played his entire career with Dinamo.

[edit] Current squad

As of 1 September 2006, according to the Russian Premier League official website.

No. Position Player
1 Russia GK Sergei Ovchinnikov
3 Russia DF Aleksandr Tochilin
4 Brazil DF Jorge Luiz
5 Russia MF Igor Semshov
6 Brazil DF Jean
8 Russia MF Dmitry Khokhlov
9 Russia FW Dmitri Bulykin
10 Portugal MF Danny
11 Brazil FW Derlei
13 Senegal DF Pascal Mendy
14 Brazil MF Francisco Lima
16 Argentina DF Leandro Fernández
19 Portugal FW Cicero
20 Russia DF Denis Kolodin
21 Lithuania GK Žydrūnas Karčemarskas
No. Position Player
22 Belarus MF Maksim Romashchenko
23 Russia MF Dmitri Kombarov
24 Russia MF Kirill Kombarov
26 Nigeria DF Patrick Ovie
28 Russia DF Andrey Eschenko
29 Russia MF Alexey Smertin
30 Russia GK Anton Shunin
38 Portugal MF Almami Moreira da Silva
39 Lithuania FW Robertas Poškus
40 Romania GK Sebastian Hutan
41 Ukraine MF Denis Skepsky
65 Russia FW Georgy Gurtskaya
77 Portugal GK Nuno
86 Russia FW Yevgeny Yatchenko

The following players are listed by Dynamo's website as reserve players. They are eligible to play for the first team.

No. Position Player
31 Russia MF Aleksandr Rogov
32 Russia MF Dmitri Shikhovtsev
33 Russia MF Nikolay Lipatkin
34 Russia GK Vasily Frolov
No. Position Player
35 Russia DF Mikhail Malykhin
36 Russia MF Dmitry Yatchenko
37 Russia MF Dmitry Tsupkin

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