And finally… the Scorpion Kick is back

Posted on 9th November 2012

This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.

Over to a chilly looking Russia where Scrabble-proof Zarya Krasnoznamensk’s first team played a training ground game against their youth side. Maxim Ivaschuk scores a cracking Scorpion Kick although it’s tough to take it too seriously since he appears to be wearing pyjamas. The less said about the very Russian soundtrack, the better.

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