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At the Futsal World Cup in Brazil, the Russian team in its third match of the group stage set a performance record for tournaments of this rank. The Solomon Islands team was defeated with a score of 31:2. Moreover, already in the first half of the meeting, our players managed to upset the opposing goalkeeper exactly 20 times, and left their goal intact. After the break, the Russians relaxed a little and conceded two goals, responding with 11 goals. In the previous round, the main favorites of the championship, the Brazilians, beat the same Solomon Islands with an impressive, but much smaller advantage than our team - 21:0.
Head coach Oleg Ivanov's team broke the South American record at world championships. In 2000, Brazil beat Guatemala 29:2. But the Russians failed to surpass their own figure for the number of goals scored in an official match - they only repeated the record (in the 1990s, Moldova was defeated 31:0). Naturalized Brazilian Pula, who plays for our team, scored nine goals for the islanders, surpassing the scorer achievement of Konstantin Eremenko, who scored seven times in one of the 1992 World Cup matches.
And yet, the Russians were very far from achieving an absolute record of performance in matches of national teams. In 2006, the First Lusophone Games (Lusophony Games) took place in Macau. The very weak East Timor team competed in the mini-football tournament. In the opening round, it lost to Portugal 0:56, and a couple of days later it conceded 20 more goals from the Brazilians - 0:76 (!).
Schumacher and Piepoli caught for doping
The doping revelations of cycling highway masters have not surprised anyone for a long time. However, when it concerns the elite, and especially cases at multi-day Grand Tour races, the public outcry is still wide. The latest representatives of the world peloton to be caught using illegal drugs are Italian Leonardo Piepoli and German Stefan Schumacher. Their positive samples were reported by the French anti-doping laboratory, which further examined blood samples taken during the July Tour de France.
Both athletes are accused of using third-generation erythropoietin (EPO). On the Great Loop, Piepoli won the 10th stage, but the Tour did not finish, as the Saulnier Duval team withdrew after the doping revelations of his teammate Riccardo Ricco. After winning the fourth stage, Schumacher took possession of the yellow jersey of the leader of the general classification for a couple of days. The German also achieved victory on the penultimate day of the Tour, confidently winning the 53-kilometer time trial.
The reaction of the German Cycling Federation to the positive doping test of Schumacher, one of the country's strongest riders today, was immediate. The athlete will face at least a two-year disqualification, and he will probably be banned forever from competing for the national team at the World Championships. The Federation is also going to demand monetary compensation from Schumacher for causing moral damage to the image of this organization.
Basketball CSKA went overseas
The CSKA men's basketball team has flown to North America, where it will play two friendly matches with NBA clubs as part of the Euroleague American Tour. The army team plays in Orlando on October 10, and four days later in Toronto.
Due to a leg injury received during training, Russian national team forward and Beijing Olympics participant Andrei Vorontsevich was unable to go overseas. Thus, the head coach of the “red-blues” Ettore Messina will have 13 basketball players in the USA and Canada.
In the NBA, exhibition games began last Sunday. In addition to meetings with CSKA, the Euroleague American Tour program also includes the games Lakers - Barcelona (October 18 and 19) and Golden State - Lituvos Rytas (October 21). At the same time, NBA teams will play several test matches among themselves in European arenas: Miami will meet twice each against New Jersey (October 9 in Paris and October 12 in London) and New Orleans will meet twice each. Washington" (October 14 in Berlin and October 17 in Barcelona).
One of CSKA's competitors in the fight for the title of Russian champion 2009, the capital's Dynamo, will hold its first calendar match of the super league next Sunday in Vladivostok against the local club Spartak-Primorye. Before this game, the “blue and white” visited neighboring Japan. David Blatt's team lost to the Hamamatsu Phoenix team in the control match 69:76. The best scorer for the losers was the hereditary Dynamo player Yaroslav Korolev, who scored 13 points.
FIBA Europe prepares for the draw
The continental branch of the International Basketball Federation has announced the composition of the “baskets” for the draw for the men's Euro 2009. The procedure will take place on November 8 in Warsaw, the championship itself will be held in seven cities in Poland. Russia, as the current champion, was in the first “basket” along with Spain, Lithuania and Greece. The composition of the remaining “baskets”: 2nd - Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Türkiye; 3rd - Serbia, Poland, Macedonia, Latvia; 4th - Great Britain, Israel, Bulgaria, winner of the additional qualifying tournament.
Day of draws at the national chess championship
In the fourth round of the super final of the Russian Chess Championship in Moscow with the participation of a dozen grandmasters, draws were recorded in all six matches. The peace was signed in the parties Lastin - Svidler, Morozevich - Timofeev, Ryazantsev - Vitiugov, Tomashevsky - Alekseev, Maslak - Sakaev, Inarkiev - Yakovenko.
The placement of participants in the standings, of course, has not changed. Each added half a point to their assets, and now the overall position looks like this: Svidler - 3.5 points; Lastin -- 3.0; Yakovenko and Vitiugov - 2.5 each; Alekseev, Morozevich, Timofeev, Ryazantsev - 2.0; Sakaev, Tomashevsky - 1.5: Maslak - 1.0; Inarkiev - 0.5. For tournament leader Svidler, a draw in the last round was the first; he won all three previous games. Inarkiev broke a streak of three defeats in a row. Today, the fifth round matches will take place at the Central Chess Player's House.