Russia





The Motherland, Mother Russia or how you want to call it, it's the biggest country in the world (geographically talking) and one of the members of the very very little club of countries in 2 different continents. Russia is mostly known by their occidental region, where you can find almost all the important cities and places, like the capital, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, etc. Russia can be proud of their historical culture, from the first empires, across the Tsars, even to the Communist era. If you love history, you'll love Russia of course. I'm not going to talk about their actual situation, politically talking, because I'm not here for this. Russia has gave many different important persons to the world, like the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, the great musician Tchaikovsky, the novelist Leo Tolstoy and many many other remarkable names.

In sports, Russia have a similar importance as in other activities, since you can find here many exceptional athletes like Maria Sharapova, Yelena Isinbayeva, Andrei Kirilenko and many others. In football they have some important names like those I said, like Lev Yashin (the only goalkeeper who has won a Ballon D'Or), Valeri Karpin, Andrei Arshavin and others. The National Team is historically one of the strongest in the international panorama, but this is referred to the USSR when they got players from other countries like Ukraine. The present Russian team is not as strong as it was before, but it has some good players in the team, some of them with important experience in some of the greatest clubs in the world.

The shirt I have is the away design from, possibly, their best performance since they are not the USSR. It's from the Euro 2008, when they ended in the third place after got shaked 0-3 by Spain in the semifinals. I love how Nike put the flag in the design, I think is very classy and fits pretty well with the red colour.

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