Native walls didn’t help

Understudies of FC Pskov-2000 won the Regional Cup playing away

On August 11, in Porkhov, at the Start stadium, the final match of the 2002 Football Cup of the Pskov Region took place. The hosts of the field, the players of Shelon, received the backups of FC Pskov-2000. Semi-final matches for the finalists have developed in different ways.

While it was not difficult for the Pskov team to beat Start from Pytalovo with a score of 6:0, the Porkhovites fought for reaching the final in a stubborn duel with the Krasnogorod Zorya. The main time of the match did not reveal the winner and ended with a score of 0:0, and in the penalty shoot-out, luck smiled at Sheloni, and, having won the series with a score of 4:3, the Porkhov players were honored to host the Cup final in their hometown this year areas.

About one and a half thousand Porkhovites gathered to cheer for their team for the game. But already at the very beginning of the game, a veteran of Pskov, playing coach Alexander Gultyaev opened the score with a long-range shot. Pskov scored the second goal in the first minute after the break, Andrey Lukanchenkov scored. Footballers of "Sheloni" were able to win back one goal in the 63rd minute of the meeting, but did not achieve more. Having completed the game with a victory with a score of 2:1, the players of the double of FC Pskov-2000 became the owners of an honorary prize.

The cup was presented to the winners by the deputy chief referee of the competition Oleg Ashnin. At the end of the holiday, the president of the Pskov-2000 football club, Alexander Lilitsa, presented the Porkhov team with several game balls and a set of game football uniforms. As a consolation from the winners, so to speak.

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Football Cup of the Pskov Region 2002 Final.

FC "Pskov-2000" - "Shelon" (Porkhov). 2:1 (1:0).

11th August. Porkhov. Start Stadium. 1500 spectators.

FC Pskov-2000 played in the following composition: Golubev, Rantsev (Atnishkin), Stepanov, Rastorguev, Filippov (Kuznetsov), Petrov (Alexeev), Grigoriev (Semenov), Gultyaev, Lukanchenkov (V. Ivanov, Uko), Kuslin ( Garbuzov), A. Ivanov.