Moscow Spartak announced the revival of its second team. This has been reported official website club.
“The second red-white team is returning after two years. It is planned to announce participation in the Second League of Russian football.
Spartak management made this decision in order to better manage the club vertical and provide an additional opportunity for the adaptation of academy students and youth team players when transitioning to adult football.
The “Spartak-2″ project was created in 2013 and helped many young football players gain experience and train in the A team, while also providing the necessary training to the core players who were shaped after injuries.”
The Spartak farm club existed in Soviet times, even before the Great Patriotic War. Moreover, there were two such teams. Spartak II became finalists among teams of physical culture clubs (KFC) in the RSFSR Cup, and also participated in the USSR Cup in 1937, 1938 and 1939.
The second farm team was Spartak-Club, which became the champions of Moscow in 1960 and won the USSR Cup among KFC teams a year earlier. He also won the Moscow Cup in 1956, 1957 and 1959.
During the Russian period, the Spartak duo team performed under the name “Spartak-D” and since 1998 “Spartak-2”. This team played in the second and third divisions of the PFL and played in the LFL championship as an amateur junior team from 2001 to 2008.
The official restoration of Spartak-2 at the professional level took place in May 2013. The team included young players and was headed by former Moscow football player Evgeniy Bushmanov. They decided to close the second team based on the results of the 2021/22 season, in which they took seventh place in the FNL.
According to Bushmanov, Spartak needs a second team.
“I believe that the decision to revive the second Spartak team is important, logical and correct. Young and promising guys, considering that Spartak Academy is one of the best in Russia, from which many students graduate every year.
A club like Spartak needs a second team for its further growth and transition to adult football.
Without a second team, it is difficult to say how much Spartak lost in these two years. Before this, there were one or two players who could prove themselves in the A team every year. There were also groups of players that other Premier League clubs were considering. In fact, Spartak now only has striker Pavel Meleshin, who is a name everyone knows. “There is also midfielder Daniil Zorin, who plays for Dynamo Minsk,” Bushmanov said. “Championship”.
However, according to former Moscow football player and coach Valery Gladilin, the second team will not help Spartak in any way. In a comment to socialbites.ca, he noted that this application is not popular worldwide.
“The second team is no longer important for Spartak, because the work of both the technical staff and the new managers will be aimed at attracting foreign specialists. The second team already existed, its purpose and objectives were for those who graduated from the academy to enter the team and gain experience there, and then perhaps get into the first team.
However, this number did not exceed. It turned out that the second team only prepared players for other teams. Almost no one made it to base; There were rare cases.
If this team is now needed so that people from the academy can do internships and find jobs at Spartak, that’s one thing. However, if the leaders decide to invite foreign players to positions of power, the second team has no chance. It will prepare players for other clubs.
This practice is not justified. Now many foreign players are playing even in Krasnodar, Sergei Galitsky realized that playing with his students is a utopia. “Barcelona”, “Real” and “Bayern” have very strong schools, they provide their leagues from them. Even in leading clubs, where children are seriously trained and professionals are trained, academies feed other championship teams. A rare minority, the most talented ones, reach base while the rest go to other clubs. This is the fate of all teams,” said Gladilin.