Monthly Archives: May 2010

UOR Zvezda Zvenigorod 1:4 Zvezda-2005

A match to forget. Up 3:0 at half, we were mediocre and managed to win 4:1 in Zvenigorod. The win combined with Izmailovo losing 2:3 at home to Voronezh keeps us in second place.
Friday we host runaway league leaders Rossiyanka, it will be very difficult for us and only a superb effort will give us [...]

Energia Voronezh 1:3 Zvezda-2005

Good fightback!
We went down 0:1 in the 4th minute as Energia’s Elena Danilova scored on the far post.
For 86 minutes we ground out three goals (Apanaschenko (2) and Kurochkina) and won in a very, very blue collar manner.
6 wins and 2 losses, we are second.

I didn’t prepare the team

Lost 2:0 at home to Ryazan in a match after which all players and staff should return our salaries to the club.

Zvezda-2005 2:0 Ryazan

This was a very tough game for us and thanks to fine performances by Olesya Kurochkina (2 goals), Valya Savchenkova and others we won 2:0 over Ryazan.

Ryazan played 4-5-1, were well organized, combatative, difficult to breakdown and very dangerous on the break. At halftime it was 0:0 and my players showed great grit and character [...]

Izmailovo 0:2 Zvezda-2005

We tied Izmailovo 1:1 during pre-season in March and felt that we needed to change things tactically against them.
It worked, as we beat them 2;0 in Moscow on goals by Sveta Zangieva and Dasha Apanaschenko. We did not play well but with 6 key players out with injuries, points are more important than performances [...]

Zvezda-2005 6:2 UOR Zvezda

Our fans against UOR Zvezda
We defeated UOR Zvezda 6:2 with Olesya Kurochkina scoring three goals and Vera Djatel, Valentina Savchenkova, and Daria Apanaschenko adding one apiece. We played well for about 30 minutes, after that our intensity and focus decreased and we were average. Made the final score a lot more respectable than it [...]

Valentina Savchenkova

When I arrived in Perm some people told me that Zvezda-2005 midfielder Valentina Savchenkova can have a difficult personality.
“If she does not get a pass she expects, she gets angry,” I was told.
Valentina Savchenkova
I guess it is true Savchenkova can be difficult but she also has the perfect attitude for football.
Players like Savchenkova are always [...]

Kubanochka 0:3 Zvezda-2005

Olesya Kurochkina
Goals by Djatel 10′, 54′, Kurochkina 34′

Rossiyanka 4:0 Zvezda-2005

We were humiliated in Moscow by Rossiyanka!
As a coach, I make all tactical, personnel and motivational decisions, and all responsibility for this loss is mine.
In this match we were second best in every phase.
Now we need to dust ourselves down and get ready to go again and show character and resilience in order to be [...]