Youth teams of Germany and Russia diverged in the world

A friendly match between the youth teams of Germany and Russia, held on Tuesday, ended in a draw 1: 1. In the first half, the teams could not hit the gate, and after 4 minutes after the renewal of the game, the forward was opened by the forward of the Moscow Spartak Nikita Bazhenov. However, the owners quickly recouped - in the 52nd minute, Sebastian Frace distinguished himself. The meeting was held in the German city of Munster in the presence of 3250 spectators.

Thus, the Russians repeated the result of a previous meeting with the Latvian team as part of the CH-2006 qualifying tournament in St. Petersburg on June 4, ITAR-TASS notes.

The German team in four days starts at the World Cup among youth teams (up to 20 years) in the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, the Portuguese youth team of the first among the teams of eight groups entered the playoffs of the qualifying tournament of the 2006 European football championship. On Tuesday, the Portuguese team on a guest defeated the Estonian team with a score of 5: 0. In seven matches of the qualifying tournament, the Portuguese "Youth" scored the maximum number of points and secured at least the second place in the qualifying group 3, where the Russian national team also acts under the leadership of Andrei Chernyshov.

The Russian youth team in six matches of the qualifying cycle gained 13 points and ranks second after the Portuguese. The following is the team of Slovakia, which on the eve of its seventh match of the tournament visiting 2-0 outplayed the "youth" of Luxembourg. On the account of the Latvian team, 8 points after six games held, and the national teams of Estonia and Luxembourg scored 2 and 1 point in seven matches.

And on Wednesday, a friendly match between the national football teams of Germany and Russia will be held in Menhengladbach. The match will begin at 22:45 Moscow time. In the previous friendly match last Saturday, the German national team with a score of 4: 1 defeated the team of Northern Ireland in Belfast. And the main team of Russia in its last match beat the Latvian national team with a score of 2-0 as part of the selection tournament of the 2006 World Cup, the final part of which will be held in Germany.