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Barça won another title
Chronicle of sporting events
Football. Spanish Super Cup. “Barcelona” – “Espanyol” – 3:0 (first match – 1:0).Spanish champion and Champions League winner Barcelona won the first trophy of the new season. It became the Spanish Super Cup, the matches for which turned into a Catalan derby. Barça made the groundwork already in the first meeting, beating Espanyol with a score of 1:0, and by the 12th minute of the return match the fate of the Super Cup was decided. By then, Xavi and Deco had scored two goals, and after the break the latter brought the score to a big one. Barcelona will play a friendly match with Bayern today, and on Friday the Catalans will play for their second title this season: in Monaco, Barca will play UEFA Cup winner Sevilla for the European Super Cup.
French Championship. 3rd round . “Toulouse” – “Nice” – 1:0, “Bordeaux” – “Lyon” – 1:2, “Auxerre” – “Marseille” – 0:3, “Paris Saint-Germain” – “Lille” – 1:0, “Le Mans” – “Valenciennes” – 3:2, “Rennes” – “Monaco” – 1:1, “Lance” – “Lorient” – 1: 1, Sedan - Sochaux - 1:1, Nantes - Troyes - 1:1, Saint-Etienne - Nancy - 1:0. The leaders are: “Marseille”, “Lyon”, “Le Mann” - 7 points each.
In the French championship, by the third round there was not a single team left with a 100% result. And after they lost to Bordeaux and Nancy, the standings were topped by Marseille, which defeated Auxerre - 3:0. So Marseille, whose first goal was scored by one of the heroes of the last world championship, Franck Ribery, tried to confirm their ambitions. However, the next day the group of leaders was caught up by the permanent champion of recent years, Lyon.
German Championship. Matches of the 2nd round. "Arminia" - "Stuttgart" - 2:3, "Bochum" - "Bayern" - 1:2. Leading: Nuremberg, Werder, Bayern - 6 points each.
The second victory for the German champions in this championship was not easy. The decisive goal was scored by German national team defender Philipp Lahm with his signature strike.
Caprara's team played the first week in the Grand Prix
The Russian women's volleyball team completed the first game week of the preliminary stage of the Grand Prix with two victories in three games. On the first day of the tournament in Hong Kong, the team of Italian specialist Giovanni Caprara defeated the Azerbaijani team with great difficulty - 3:2 (22:25, 21:25, 27:25, 25:23, 15:7). After the second set, Caprara replaced setter Marina Sheshenina with her namesake Akulova, and this change in lineup brought results. The next day, Sheshenina again took her place in the starting lineup. A seemingly successful match against a frankly weak Thailand nevertheless resulted in the loss of one game - 3:1 (25:17, 25:15, 26:28, 25:19). On the last day of their stay in Hong Kong, the Russians lost to the Olympic champion of Athens, China - 0:3 (15:25, 23:25, 21:25). Caprara explained his team’s not very successful performance in Hong Kong by the fact that the volleyball players had not yet recovered from the stress of the training camp. The Italian specialist emphasized that at the first stage of the team’s preparation for the November World Championships in Japan, the emphasis was placed on general physical training. “There were no tactical mistakes in the match with China, we just need to strengthen our work on the technical components of the game - reception, defensive support, serve, attack,” said the national team coach. Ilya TRISVIATSKY