The Midfield Magazine

Yury Morozov, the Dragonslayer

Nobody knows the ins and outs of a sports club as well as a local boy. Nobody. The local boy is born into a cult of worship of the local club. The local boy has his walls plastered with posters of the local team’s heroes. The local boy dreams to one day set foot onto the…

Zenit Turns 90…

This week is a jubilant one for football fans from The Venice of the North. Zenit Saint Petersburg is celebrating its 90th birthday, making it one of Russia’s oldest football clubs. What is today’s Zenit was formed in 1925 as a team of Saint Petersburg’s metal plant, and in 1936 they became part of a sports…

Miodrag Belodedici — The Stag

Imagine this: you are a director of a football club, building a generation that, two years on, would conquer Europe and the world. You are going about your daily routine work, and one day, a world-class defender, who five years prior won the most coveted club title in Europe, enters your office…