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One of the tallest players in world volleyball. The captain of the Russian national team, blocker Alexey Kazakov (height 217 cm), moved from Novosibirsk Lokomotiv to the capital's Dynamo. Together with him, the five-time national champion, finisher Alexander Korneev, followed the same route.
On the eve of Friday's draw for the Champions League, where the capital's Dynamo team will compete as wild card holders in the company of the Russian champion Zenit Kazan and Lokomotiv-Belogorye Belgorod, the Blue and White squad for the 2010/11 season has been completed. The official website of the club reports this. The noticeably updated Dynamo lineup looks like this: setters Sergei Grankin and Pavel Zaitsev; finishers Dante (Brazil), Peter Veres (Hungary), Alexander Korneev and Alexander Markin; blockers Dmitry Shcherbinin, Alexey Ostapenko, Alexey Kazakov and Dmitry Shestak; diagonal Roman Yakovlev and Pavel Kruglov; libero Roman Bragin and Khachatur Stepanyan.
As for the latest acquisitions of Muscovites, they can be called the most impactful. Kazakov is a participant in 25 major international competitions under the auspices of the International and European Volleyball Federations as part of the national team. His highest titles are the winner of the 1999 World Cup, the 2005 Euroleague champion, the silver medalist of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the bronze medalist of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. Alexey has been playing in the main team of the country since 1996.
Korneev became the champion of Russia as part of three different clubs - Lokomotiv-Belogorye, the capital's Dynamo and Zenit. In 2007, he became the silver medalist of the World League and the World Cup, and the following season, together with the national team, he won the Beijing Olympic bronze medal. The transition to the “blue and white” camp will allow these players not to miss the international club season, because their previous team, Novosibirsk Lokomotiv, refused to participate in the CEV Cup for financial and organizational reasons.
Pascual - winner of the Alexander Gomelsky Prize
Coaches of the teams participating in the men's basketball Euroleague voted to determine the winner of the annual prize named after the great Soviet and Russian mentor Alexander Gomelsky. The best coach of the 2009/10 season was recognized as the helmsman of the Spanish “Barcelona”, 37-year-old Javi Pascual, who led his players to the title of winners of the Euroleague.
The Alexander Gomelsky Prize was established in 2005 after the death of the master. The owners of this honorable trophy were Israeli Pini Gershon (2005, Maccabi, Tel Aviv), Italian Ettore Messina during the years when our CSKA won the title of club champion of the Old World (2006, 2008), Serb Zeljko Obradovic (Panathinaikos, Greece) and his compatriot Dusko Vujosevic (2009, “Partizan”, Belgrade).
New prize winner A.Ya. Gomelsky is completely unknown as a player, but he began to get involved in coaching at the age of 18. For many years he worked with teams in the lower divisions of the Spanish Championship, in 2004 he joined the Barcelona club system, and in February 2008 he headed the “blue garnets”. In May of this year, Pascual became the youngest coach of the team - the winner of the Euroleague.
Major Hockey League without double matches
At the extraordinary general meeting of members of the non-profit partnership "Major Hockey League", which was convened by the founders of the KHL organization and the FHR, important decisions were made in the life of the league: members of the NP VHL were approved, a new composition of the partnership board was elected, the teams participating in the championship and the tournament formula were determined.
According to the official KHL website, at least 19 clubs will play in the major league championship. These are the Navy (St. Petersburg), Mechel (Chelyabinsk), Izhstal (Izhevsk), Kazzinc-Torpedo (Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan), Gazovik (Tyumen), Sarov, Sputnik ( Nizhny Tagil), "Crystal" (Saratov), "Ermak" (Angarsk), "Toros" (Neftekamsk), "Diesel" (Penza), "Neftyanik" (Almetyevsk), "Molot-Prikamye" (Perm), "Lada" "(Tolyatti), "Ryazan", "Ariada-Akpars" (Volzhsk), "South Ural" (Orsk), "Zauralye" (Kurgan), "Dynamo-Moscow". Due to the provision of incomplete packages of documents from the clubs Lipetsk, Krylya Sovetov (Moscow) and Khimik (Voskresensk), the teams were given a deferment in their application for the championship until June 30.
In the 2010/11 season, the tournament participants will be divided into two conferences: “West” and “East”. At the first stage, teams will play four matches within their pool (two matches each on their own court and on the opponent’s court), and will also compete against representatives of another conference (one game each at home and away). A fundamental difference from previous major league championships is that teams do not play double matches. It has been determined that the opening match, scheduled for September 9, will be hosted by Perm. The opponent of Molot-Prikamye will be determined later. The tournament will finish in the event of seven matches in the final series approximately on April 30.
Nabokov is no longer needed by the “sharks”
The management of the San Jose Sharks National Hockey League club does not intend to renew the contract with Russian national team goalkeeper Evgeniy Nabokov. On July 1, he enters the free agent market. San Jose general manager Doug Wilson explained the decision as a matter of practicality. Last season, Nabokov received $6 million under his contract, but management believes that a good goalkeeper can be acquired for less money.
Evgeniy has played for San Jose since 1999 with a break for the 2004/05 lockout season, which he spent in Metallurg Magnitogorsk. He is the Sharks' record holder for a number of statistical indicators for goalkeepers. Eight years ago, Nabokov even managed to score a goal in a match against Vancouver when the opponent replaced the goalkeeper with an extra field player.
Among other off-season events in the North American league, we note the extension of the collective agreement between the NHL and the players’ union for another year, that is, until the end of the 2011/12 championship.