by Luca Ranocchiari - Futsalplanet.com editor

Once upon a time there were golden days for Norilsky Nickel, even conquering a russian superleague title in May 2002. The historical final against Gazprom was the most important achievement, in that "era" players like Ivanov, Choco, Tkačuk, Schuchko, Tveryankin and others were living in the cold Siberia, re-writing the russian futsal history.

Those days, though, came to an end. The new "trend" of Norilsky Nickel was quite different but certainly not wrong: believe in youth futsal talents. No more titles, with Dinamo and Sinara under the spotlights, but many worthy season in the Russian Superleague.

Now maybe time has come for one more, and different, period: the persian era. Two years of contract, the agreement is reached: Mostafa Nazari (Dabiri Tabriz) and Ali Hassanzadeh (Saba Qom) are new players of Norilsky Nickel for the Russian Superleague 2013/2014. In other words: the best iranian keeper and one of the best persian talents ever, well-known players in the international futsal stage. A very interesting choice for the siberian club, a good option for the head coach Konstantin Maevskiy.