Idemo,ovo je bitna utakmica za ne izgubit,pogotovo ne sa nekom visokom razlikom,ali,nama je ključ doma protiv AEK-a.A ovo,protiv ZEnita,ako se šta ušićari,dobro se ušićari.Priželjkujen isto oba X-a,i onda u 5. kolu izbacimo AEK,i u 6. kolu udre junak na junaka
,razračunamo se za eventualni prolaz sa Anderlechtom.
U svakom slučaju,nema predaje,ni protiv Zenita,a kamoli protiv protivnika bližih našem rangu,AEK-a i Anderlechta.
Inače,mali info o klubu Zenitu,i njegovim ultrasima,pošto,pretpostavljan znate sve bitno o St. Petersburgu općenito.
Povijest FC Zenith St. Petersburga seže u daleku 1925. godinu,još za vrijeme sovjetskog socijalizma i vladavine Staljina.Klub je osnovan u lenjingradskoj čeličani.1936. su preimenovani u "Stalinets",netom prije playoffa za klupsko prvenstvo.
Za vrijeme ranih SSSR prvenstava nisu baš bili pretjerano uspješni,igrali su u grupi B(prva divizija),i nisu uspjeli se plasirati u grupu A.
1939 su igrali i finale SSSR kupa,izgubili od Spartaka.
1940. napokon dobijaju ime koje imaju do danas,Zenit.Prvi trofej su osvojili "tek" 1944. ,ruski kup(a naši precjednici klubova svrgavaju trenere nakon 6-7 kola,a ovi ovdje čekali 19 godina za trofej).
Sljedeće godine nisu donijele ništa osobito za klub,bez pretjeranog uspjeha,najbolje 4. mjesto iz 1958. te još 2 peta mjesta,i nekoliko polufinala kupova.Prekretnica u klubu se dogodila 1978. kad je doveden novi,energični i sposobni trener Jurij Morozov,i njegov se agresivan stil,sa nekoliko lokalnih mladih igrača,isplatio,1980. prvi put su osvojili 3. mjesto.Nakon toga,Morozov je otišao 1983. ali to je tada već bila uigrana ekipa prekaljenih profesionalaca,koji stižu do finala kupa 1984. ali gube od Dinama Moskve.Također su i,jedini put u SSSR povijesti,postali prvacima iste godine.Nakon Superkupa je uslijedio pad,sljedećih 10 godina nije donijelo ništa posebno za svijetloplave.Sve do 1997. i polufinala ruskog kupa,i 1999. i osvajanja istog,a vodio ih je mladi Anatolij Davidov.
2001. su osvojili 3. mjesto u ruskoj ligi,a godinu poslije,ponovo pod Morozovim,i novo finale kupa.Nakon toga,Morozov se umirovio,a prvi eksperiment sa stranim trenerom,Čehom Petrželom,pokazao se učinkovitim.2003. su osvojili prvi naslov nakon 19 godina čekanja(opet se vraćan na naše trenere
).Priča ide dalje,ulaze u Kup UEFA(tadašnji),i vrlo su bili blizu prolaska skupine.To su uspjeli ostvariti 2006. ,četvrtfinale.Ipak,zbog slabih rezultata u prvenstvu,smijenjen je Čeh,a doveden Dick Advocaat(Pimpek Odvjetnik
).Onda počinje zlatna era kluba,2007-2008. kad su osvojili prvenstvo,2007. a godinu potom su ostvarili povijesni uspjeh,osvajanje Kupa UEFA,i to u velikom stilu,izbacivanjem Bayer Leverkusena 4-1,0-1,pa Bayern Münchena 1-1,4-0 i u finalu su dobili Glasgow Rangerse 2-0.Andrej Aršavin je proglašen igračem utakmice,a najbolji strijelac turnira je bio Pavel Pogrebnjak.Poslije je usljedio mali intermezzo,ispali su u skupini H LP,sa Juventusom,BATE Borisovim i Real Madridom,ali klub je nakon toga preuzeo Spaletti,i već su sada(rusko prvenstvo traje od 3.-11. mjeseca),uspjeli osvojiti rekord po broju bodova u prvih 16 kola,40,te novi rekord od 21 utakmice bez poraza od početka lige.A ipak nisu teoretski osigurali još naslov.
Evo malo o Zenitovim ultrasima(koji su nas tako "srdačno" izbili
),ne da mi se više pisat pa ću samo prekopirat link:
Zenit’s fans are the team’s 12th player at all matches, be it an
official match or a friendly, in St. Petersburg or Vladivostok, at the
first stages of the Russian Cup or a European cup final. Zenit was the
first Russian club to honor its fans by taking away the number 12 for
players so as to give it to its fans. That was done in 2001.
The
Zenit fan movement as we know it today started in the Soviet Union in
the end of the 1970s. In the 1980 season, when Zenit came in third
place, the team’s followers formed the first fan group, called Sector
33, in honor of the sector at the Kirov Stadium from where the most
diehard fans supported the club. On September 21, 1980, the Leningrad
fans went en masse to support their team at an away match for the first
time — to Moscow, for a match against Spartak. This day is considered to
be the birthday of the Zenit fan movement in the city on the Neva.
After Zenit’s first league title in 1984 the 33rd sector started to
resemble the current standing-room only sectors of Petrovsky Stadium:
packed stands full of flags, scarves, and sweaters in Zenit’s
blue-white-light blue colors. By the middle of the 1980s there were
almost 500 season ticket holders in the standing-room only sectors. It
was at this time that the “Evening Song” by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy was
re-written as the anthem of Zenit fans. The team anthem was called “City
on the Free Neva,” and featured the prophetic words:
Our Zenit will take the UEFA Cup
And we’ll sing our victory song
The
team kept its supporters even during the hard times of 1991-1995. In
fact, one of the team’s most famous supporters, Denis “?-2”, who in the
2008 season visited a record 300th away match, went to all of Zenit’s
away matches in the 1991 season, thereby completing the first ever
“golden” fan season in the history of the Soviet-Russian fan movement.
Upon returning to the highest division, Zenit was received with full
stands. Almost 7,000 people came from St. Petersburg to Moscow to watch
Zenit win the first trophy in its modern history in the Russian Cup
final of 1999. The victory celebration in the team’s honor on Palace
Square in St. Petersburg gathered about 1 million people. Three years
later (again at the Russian Cup final), about 25,000 people came from
Petersburg to support the team. More than 10,000 people came from St.
Petersburg to watch Zenit win the UEFA Cup 2007/08 final in Manchester,
England, and about 15,000 people went to Monaco to see Zenit’s victory
in the 2008 UEFA Supercup in person. The fans of the blue-white-light
blue side not only have records in their name, they also have
exceptional organizational skills. For example, Zenit fans were the
first in Russia to work together with the club’s administration to
organize charter flights to their favorite team’s away matches. More
than 1,500 Zenit fans flew to Vladivostok to watch the team play there —
another Russian record. Trips to Vladivostok have become one of the
symbols of Zenit supporters. In the 2006 season three Zenit fans went
all the way to the Eastern football capital by car, while a year later
one Zenit fan covered the entire 12,000 km to Vladivostok by
hitchhiking, just to see his favorite team play.
Zenit is just as
hospitable and respectful of its supporters. Each September the team
holds a football tournament for its fans at its home arena. The fans’
tournament is named in honor of Pavel Fyodorovich Sadyrin. Zenit fans
from all over the world come to play in the tournament, which is
organized by the club itself.
A special department for fan
relations was created in Zenit in 2006. This department was headed by
Vladimir Dolgopolov, who was USSR champion with Zenit in 1984. Not long
after that a Coordination Committee of Zenit supporters was formed. This
is a unique roundtable of blue-white-light blue supporters called on to
solve all of the supporters’ problems in direct contact with the club.
[uredio hyper-white - 24. listopada 2010. u 03:36]