Talk:Russia v Ukraine (UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying)

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This football match has an extensive article on Russian wikipedia.

It is difficult to find sources in English for this match; I know that some RSs have been published but tracking them down is tricky.

There are a number of Russian sources though. For example, this article on BBCRussian from 2008 describes the match as one of hte three most important matches in Russian football and discusses the match over 4 paragraphs.

I would compare this match in notability to the England --Scotland series in the Euro2000 qualifiers, which is detailed in a section of England–Scotland_football_rivalry. I would argue that this particular match is more significant because it remains one of the only 2 times Russia and Ukraine have faced each other in an official match (the other being the earlier match in the same qualifying tournament).--Johnsemlak (talk) 15:25, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

The article on the Russian Wikipedia is indeed extensive, but it's hardly well-sourced. As such, I'm not totally convinced that sources can be found or, per WP:SPORTSEVENT, that an article consisting mostly of well-sourced prose could be written. If there's no progress on finding those Russian sources I'm inclined to take this to AfD. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Also, my bad for not noticing it had been prodded before. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 21:23, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, that game was not just a football match. That was a cultural event. It had a huge & profound aftermath, even more than the match with France which also had a huge impact. Russia of 1990s and Russia of the 21-st century are two different countries, and that match was one of the major turning points – I am telling that as a witness. In modern Russia that would sound very weird & even impossible, but then the match did affect the thinking of many people. The game with France that I mentioned had a more huge impact on people around the country than e.g. the Russian bronze in Euro 2008, so you figure how important those qualifiers were.

As to the sources in English, there is this article in The Guardian's blogs. - 37.9.29.40 (talk) 09:32, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

In other words, it was the fact that that was the only encounter of the two teams that made the game important, but the game's aftermath. The game turned out to be very important for the minds of people (I have no idea why), and therefore notable by the press. - 37.9.29.40 (talk) 09:43, 25 April 2017 (UTC)