{"id":14,"date":"2002-04-07T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-07T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-12-17T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:21:28","slug":"moscowball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/07\/moscowball\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscowball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/moscow_team.jpg\" alt=\"Torpedo-Zil Youth\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nGroup shot post game with the Torpedo Zil youth team<\/p>\n<p>What a storming game of football we have just played&#8230; Post Moscow derby match between Locomotive (&#8220;Loco, Loco&#8221;) and Torpedo Zil, we gathered signatures on our World Cup ball, like football star trainspotters (a small bottle of &#8216;nail lacquer&#8217; to protect) and attracted a crowd of young up and coming Torpedo stars whose trainer was only too happy to agree to their demands of an England\/Russia showdown on the training ground across the car park.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_embed alignnone\"><div class=\"sofvm_video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ball visits Torpedo Zil\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skxaid7WE-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>We go to watch our first game, but have more fun playing our first game of the trip afterwards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sofvm_video_post_link\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/videos\/the-ball-visits-torpedo-zil\/#respond\">Comment on this video<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/moscow_roman.jpg\" alt=\"Roman\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nThe training ground and Roman, beautifully confident before the game<\/p>\n<p>So I threw my Spartak WANKA (shaika, bobble hat bought yesterday) to one side and joined in the 6\/7\/8 aside. Blimey, could they play or what! The smallest of them, Roman was well gifted so I took him out early doors and we beat &#8217;em hollow&#8230;.wrong&#8230; he was on my side actually and we linked beautifully now and again and all in all the game was played in a fantastic spirit, England, Russia and peace thrown off several pigeon English tongues.<\/p>\n<p>Post photo session it was back on with my WANKA and head off to this &#8217;round the corner from Red Square&#8217; net cafe.<\/p>\n<p>We were given tickets to the Moscow derby courtesy of Richard, friend and colleague of our Moscow sponsor Fraser Lawson. He also sorted tickets for us to see Spartak Moscow, where I picked up me hat and we also nearly lost the ball to an army lad who assumed we had nicked it from the stadium as they were using the Adidas World Cup ball too!<\/p>\n<p> [phpcode]$video_id=61; include(TEMPLATEPATH.&#8217;\/assets\/includes\/video_insert_wp.php&#8217;);[\/phpcode]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/phil_at_spartak.jpg\" alt=\"Phil at Spartak\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nMy WANKA, me and the Spartak &#8216;Luzhniki&#8217; Stadium<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/young_fans.jpg\" alt=\"Young Spartak fans\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nYoung Spartak fans<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/titov.jpg\" alt=\"A Spartak player signs the ball\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nA Spartak player signs the ball<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/fan_with_flag.jpg\" alt=\"Fan with Spartak flag\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nFan with Spartak flag<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/spartak_player.jpg\" alt=\"Another Spartak player\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nAnother Spartak player (we think it&#8217;s Titov, the captain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/common\/images\/2002\/russia\/moscow\/moscow_team.jpg\" alt=\"Torpedo-Zil Youth\" style=\"height: 240px;width: 320px\" \/><br \/>\nGroup shot post game with the Torpedo Zil youth team<\/p>\n<p>What a storming game of football we have just played&#8230; Post Moscow derby match between Locomotive (&#8220;Loco, Loco&#8221;) and Torpedo Zil, we gathered signatures on our World Cup ball, like football star trainspotters (a small bottle of &#8216;nail lacquer&#8217; to protect) and attracted a crowd of young up and coming Torpedo stars whose trainer was only too happy to agree to their demands of an England\/Russia showdown on the training ground across the car park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"geo":{"latitude":55.75578689999999681958797737024724483489990234375,"longitude":37.61763380000000012159944162704050540924072265625,"description":"Russian Federation, Moscow"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}