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Подготовили Илья ТРИСВЯТСКИЙ; Михаил ВИГНАНСКИЙ; Тбилиси
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Forward of the Russian national team and English Arsenal Andrei Arshavin was included in the list of contenders for the title of winner of the Golden Ball, awarded annually to the best player of the Old World by the authoritative French publication France Football. The entire candidate list consists of 30 names. After voting, in which about a hundred journalists from around the world will take part, the winner of the trophy will be named on December 1, and the award ceremony will take place five days later.
The Ballon d'Or has been awarded since 1956. In 1963, the legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin became the laureate; in 1975, Oleg Blokhin was named the strongest football player in Europe; in 1986, Igor Belanov celebrated success.
Kaladze got into "milk"
The Georgian national football team will undergo a radical reconstruction, and the contract with its head coach, 53-year-old Argentine Hector Cooper, which expires in December, will not be extended. These are the results of the shameful qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup for Georgians, in which the team never won, drew three matches and lost seven times, scoring seven goals and conceding 19.
Georgia finished last among the six teams in Group 8. In the final match of the tournament, the Georgians lost to the Bulgarians in Sofia 2:6, after which outraged fans suggested “not letting unscrupulous players go home.” But the September home game against Italy (0:2) can be considered the apotheosis of failure. Both goals were then scored into his own goal by the national team captain, 31-year-old Milan defender Kakha Kaladze. According to the Tbilisi magazine "Rating", because of this, the footballer's wife, model Anuka Areshidze, became so worried that her milk disappeared, and their three-month-old son Levan was transferred to artificial nutrition.
The Georgian Football Federation, in order to reassure fans of the national team and not deprive them of sleep or appetite, has already begun negotiations with 41-year-old Georgian specialist Temuri Ketsbaia, offering him to take over the national team. Before this, a well-known former football player (he has 50 matches for the Georgian national team and 16 goals in them) coached clubs in Cyprus and Greece. Ketsbaya is considered a fairly principled and demanding coach. Hector Cooper has already said that many famous current football players, when they come to the national team, for some reason do not want to give their all in matches for it.
Bazarevich is dissatisfied with the speed of his players
Basketball. Super League. Men. "Triumph" - "Dynamo" M - 73:65, UNICS - "Yenisey" - 91:85. Women. "Dynamo" Kursk -- "Dynamo" M -- 77:61, "Vologda-Chevakata" -- "Nadezhda" -- 58:79, "Spartak" St. Petersburg -- "Spartak" MO -- 60:87, "Spartak" "M - UMMC - 68:114.
The tournament started with a match between neighbors in Lyubertsy. The composition of the teams in the new season, after all the numerous financial turmoil, looks unusual: if there was at least one foreign player in the ranks of Triumph (Brion Rush), then the capital's Dynamo players are now doing without the Varangians at all. At the beginning of the third quarter, the hosts were leading by 18 points, but the “blue and white” did not consider the outcome of the match a foregone conclusion. Having scored 11 unanswered points in the middle of the final period, the guests came within one accurate shot of Triumph - 59:61. Soon, thanks to a long-range hit by Sergei Monya, the gap was reduced to a minimum (62:63), but the hosts were rescued by Vadim Panin, who accurately shot from behind the six-meter line. Among the winners, the top scorer was Rush (21 points), among the Dynamo players the highest performance was demonstrated by Sergei Bykov (23) and Monya (20). “We need to find out the reason why my players entered the court unconcentrated and very inferior in speed and reaction,” said Dynamo coach Sergei Bazarevich. - This is not the first time this has happened, we also encountered similar things in pre-season matches. We have not yet found a solution to this problem. But there is also a positive moment in this meeting - at the end of the day we were able to impose a fight, albeit at the cost of heroic efforts.”
Ovechkin made two doubles in a row
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Detroit” – “Colorado” – 3:4 (bull.), “Toronto” – “Rangers” – 1:4 – Lisin “R” (1+0), “Montreal” – “Ottawa” " -- 1:3 - - Kovalev "M" (1+1), "Buffalo" -- "Atlanta" -- 2:4 -- Kovalchuk "A" (2+0), Afinogenov "A" (1+ 0), Vyach. Kozlov "A" (0+2), "Pittsburgh" -- "Tampa Bay" -- 4:1 -- Gonchar "P" (1+0), Malkin "P" (0+1), "Phoenix" -- "Boston" -- 4:1, "Vancouver" -- "Minnesota" -- 2:1, "Washington" -- "Nashville" -- 3:2 (bullet) - - Ovechkin "B" (2 +0), “Islanders” – “San Jose” – 1:4, “Columbus” – “Los Angeles” – 4:1, “New Jersey” – “Carolina” – 2: 0, “Chicago” – “Dallas” – 3:4, “Anaheim” – “St. Louis” – 0:5.
Washington's Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin is spending the beginning of the regular season at a crazy scoring pace. After eight matches, the graduate of the capital's Dynamo already has nine goals scored and seven assists, he is the leader in the list of snipers and in points (goal plus assist). On the night of Sunday, Moscow time, Alexander made his second double in a row, Ovechkin twice upset Nashville goalkeeper Dan Ellis already in the starting period, and also distinguished himself in the post-match shootout.
Maxim Afinogenov scored the winning goal in the match against his former club, for which he spent nine seasons. In the third period, Atlanta played defensively - four shots on target versus the opponent's 20, but Buffalo's onslaught did not bring the desired result to the hosts.
Davydenko won the Masters in Shanghai
Nikolai Davydenko defeated the former world number one, Spaniard Rafael Nadal, in the final of the ATP Masters tennis tournament with a prize fund of $3.24 million in Shanghai (China) - 7:6 (7:3), 6:3.
The Russian immediately earned a thousand rating points and received a check for $616.5 thousand. This is Davydenko’s 18th personal title, including his third victory at the Masters (at this level Nikolai previously achieved success in Paris 2006 and Miami -2008).