Football fans are in for a treat, with 5 major football teams based in the Russian capital meaning that you can almost always get to see a game when you are in town.
In Soviet days, because the teams all represented certain aspects of Russian industry, the government would fix the results of matches to avert strikes. Fact.
Spartak, and Locomotiv Moscow both play at the Locomotiv Stadium, The other teams, Dynamo, Torpedo, and the Central Sports Club of the Army play at stadiums named after them.
The Lenin Stadium that hosted the 1980 Olympics is now a flea market, and a place to pick up electrical goods rather than Gold Medals.
