Club Focus - Luch Energia Vladivostok
One of my unfullfilled ambitions, which will probably remain unfullfilled is to see Luch Vladivostok play a home game at their Dynamo Stadium. Another is to see them get into the Champions League. Can you imagine how pissed off clubs like Manchester United would be if they had to travel basically as far as Japan for a midweek game, and without the massive pay-day of a friendly in Japan? Luch's location even causes problems in the Russian League. For example in 2006 3 Zenit fans drove to the match from St. Petersburg in a clapped out Honda. Unfortunately, the car broke down in Vladivostok and the lads had to get a Trans-Siberian train back to Leningrad. An especially arduous journey that takes several days and travels the distance of 15000 KM very slowly. At least Zenit showed them their appreciation and gave them a brand new car when they eventually got home. Professional football arrived in Vladivostok in 1947 when it was decided that a team from Siberia and one from the Far East ...