The Crimean futsal team became a participant in the Festival of Culture and Sports of the Peoples of the South of Russia

CrimeaPRESS reports:

From 23 to 26 September, the 13th Festival of Culture and Sports of the Peoples of the South of Russia was held in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny . According to «Crimean Sport» , a record number of teams took part in the competition — 17.

In the mini-football tournament, which was cordially received by the Ramzan Football Academy, in addition to Crimeans and Sevastopol, the teams of Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushetia, Kalmykia, Adygea, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories, Astrakhan and Rostov Regions. In addition, for the first time, teams from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Abkhazian team were invited to participate in the tournament.

The Crimean team (coach — Gennady Sapozhnikov), composed mainly of players from mini-football teams of the Republic of Crimea (Alexander Litvinov, Ilya Donskoy, Andrey Kozhemyakin, Igor Mynko, Gennady Egorov, Andrey Tarailov, Vladimir Semenov, Alexander Sginukhin and Vadim Mamonov), in Within the framework of the tournament, she showed a bright and spectacular game that impressed the audience and kept the opposing teams in suspense, by the way, staffed by professional futsal and football players.

In the first group round of the competition, our countrymen defeated the LPR team — 1:0 (a goal in the asset of Vladimir Semenov), tied with the teams of Adygea — 2:2 (Ilya Donskoy, Vadim Mamonov) and Ingushetia — 1:1 (Vadim Mamonov).

In the second round (again in the group) the Crimeans achieved a victory over North Ossetia-Alania — 1:0 (Vadim Mamonov), broke up with Kalmykia — 0:0, and lost in the decisive match with the Krasnodar Territory team — 0:3, although during the second half they had three real chances to score a goal, but the opposing team was first rescued by the goalkeeper, and then the ball hit the post. As a result, the Crimean national team did not get into the quartet of the strongest, where prizes were played.

The winner of the tournament, as well as two years ago, was the team of Chechnya, which in the finals defeated Ingushetia — 6:4. «Bronze» went to the team of the Krasnodar Territory, which turned out to be stronger than the representatives of the DPR — 2:0.

In addition, within the framework of the Festival, competitions were held in arm wrestling, archery, athletics, power biathlon, kettlebell lifting, tug-of-war, chess and city sports.

Crimeans are fourth in the overall standings of the Festival. The first team place is in Chechnya.