IHT:Guus Hiddink wants his young team's defeat by Spain in the European Championship semifinal to be the start of a Russian football renaissance, not the end of one.
«Russian football is coming alive and so is the national team,» said Hiddink.
It has been in a long hibernation. The Soviet Union won the first ever European Championship in 1960 and was runner-up three times, most recently in 1988, when Marco van Basten's amazing volleyed goal led the Netherlands to a 2-0 win.
But since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia had never reached the knockout stage of a major tournament.
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