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Подготовили Андрей ВДОВИН; Илья ТРИСВЯТСКИЙ
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The new head coach of the Russian men's volleyball team, Italian Daniele Bagnoli, has decided on a list of 22 players for our national team's preliminary application to participate in the 2009 World League tournament.
Here's who Bagnoli chose: setters - Sergey Grankin (Dynamo M), Alexander Butko, Oleg Samsonychev (both Iskra); Semyon Poltavsky, Pavel Kruglov (both Dynamo M), Maxim Mikhailov (Yaroslavich), Alexey Cheremisin (Zenit); finishers - Sergei Tetyukhin (Lokomotiv-Belogorye), Yuri Berezhko, Evgeniy Sivozhelez (both Dynamo M), Pavel Abramov, Denis Kalinin (both Iskra), Vladimir Melnik (Ural); blockers - Alexander Volkov, Alexey Ostapenko (both Dynamo M), Alexey Kuleshov, Anton Astashenkov (both Iskra), Alexey Kazakov (Ural), Dmitry Musersky (Lokomotiv-Belogorye); libero - Alexey Verbov (Iskra), Alexander Sokolov (Yaroslavich), Alexander Yanutov (Gazprom-Yugra).
Musersky, Butko, Astashenkov and Kalinin have a chance to debut in the national team. However, the final application, which will be sent at the end of April, will include only 19 players. The Russians' opponents in the group stage will be the teams of Bulgaria, Japan and Cuba.
Zherdev agrees to come to the national team
Hockey . NHL. Regular season. "Rangers" - "New Jersey" - 3:0, "Calgary" - "San Jose" - 1:2, "Phoenix" - "Dallas" - 6:5 (OT) - Lisin “F” (2+1), Tikhonov “F” (0+2).
The head coach of the Russian national team, Vyacheslav Bykov, and his first assistant, Igor Zakharkin, completed a trip to North America, during which they held a number of meetings with candidates for the national team playing in NHL clubs. In New York, the coaches had a conversation with Nikolai Zherdev, who, according to the FHR website, expressed a desire to come to the World Championships and the pre-Olympic training camp, which will take place in Moscow from August 29 to September 2. At the same time, the Rangers, for whom the Russian striker plays, still have a good chance of making it to the playoffs after defeating New Jersey. Now the team, with 89 points after 77 matches, is in seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings. Only Florida, which has 85 points after 76 matches, has a real chance of pushing the Rangers out of the eight.
But the coaching staff can now include Los Angeles forward Alexander Frolov in the list of national team players. His “kings” had long ago lost hope of making it to the playoffs, and the Russian striker gave his consent to participate in the World Cup during a telephone conversation with Bykov and Zakharkin.
In addition, the national team's coaching staff can count on other foreign players with whom negotiations were held. The coaches secured the consent of Atlanta forward Ilya Kovalchuk and Ottawa defender Anton Volchenkov, for whose clubs the season will end with the end of the regular season. In addition, Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin, Montreal defender Andrei Markov, and Edmonton player Denis Grebeshkov announced their desire to help the national team. An agreement was also reached with Washington's Russian colony Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Viktor Kozlov, Sergei Fedorov and Semyon Varlamov that if the Capitals are eliminated from the playoffs in the first round, they will all be ready to join the Russian team .
Mourning's number immortalized
Basketball. NBA. Regular season . "Miami" - "Orlando" - 95:101, "New Jersey" - "Milwaukee" - 78:107, "Utah" - "New York" - 112:104 - Kirilenko "U" "(two points plus three assists), "Golden State" - "Memphis" - 109:114.
Famed center Alonzo Mourning became the first player in Miami history to have his number retired by the club. The jersey with number 33 was hung under the arches of the hit's home arena, and during the ceremony dedicated to this event, even a welcoming letter from US President Barack Obama was read out.
Mourning, who played last season, was forced to retire due to a serious knee injury, after which he was never able to return to the court. During his career, in addition to the Heat, the famous center defended the colors of Charlotte and New Jersey, but won almost all his titles in Miami, for which he played intermittently from 1995 to 2007. Here, in 2006, he won his only NBA championship ring, plus Mourning’s collection includes gold medals from the 2000 Olympics, the 1994 World Champion, and two trophies as the best NBA defensive player (1999, 2000).
Beckham earned the most
The authoritative publication France Football has published a list of the highest paid football players in the world. It was headed by David Beckham, who earned $42.7 million over the past year in Milan and the American club Los Angeles Galaxy. Argentinean Leo Messi in Barcelona received exactly 5 million less. The Brazilian Ronaldinho closes the top three highest paid players with 25.8 million.
The best footballer of last year, Cristian Ronaldo, with an income of 24.1 million, is only fourth. And in general, in the top ten of France Football there are only four representatives of the richest championship - the English Premier League. In addition to the Portuguese midfielder of Manchester United, his teammate Wayne Rooney (17.8 million) and two Chelsea players - Frank Lampard (17.1) and John Terry (15.4) - are at the bottom of the top 10.
Dynamo will soon announce the club's budget
The management of the Dynamo football club (Moscow) officially commented on reports according to which the club could become the property of its main creditor, VTB Bank.
“There are no changes in the structure of the share capital of ZAO Football Club Dynamo-Moscow. 99.9% of the shares belong to CJSC Dynamo Management Company, says the club’s official statement. -- The club's budget for 2009 was fully approved by the board of directors and is protected by relevant income items. In the near future, the parameters of the agreement on the general sponsorship of VTB OJSC for the Dynamo football club and the club’s budget for 2009 will be announced.”