Spring inspection team Capello’s World Figure Skating Championships, restart Kvyat in the “Red Bull”, as well as the conference finals in the Continental Hockey League will be the main sporting events of the beginning of the week.
Cornerstone Montenegro
Russian national football team will hold a March 27 guest qualifying match Euro 2016 qualifier against Montenegro. The meeting will begin at 22.45 MSK.
The team Fabio Capello, who led on the background to tighten their belts due to problems with the payment of salaries, not too good start in the qualifying tournament, and now is only the third place with four games in five points.
But now millions Capello found its owner, who left the team and members of his staff found empty time, but the replacement, and nothing prevents the national team to solve their problems tournament. And they are such that the meeting in Podgorica will be a cornerstone in qualifying, following which two teams will qualify to the final of Euro 2016.
Team Montenegro approaches the game with the Russians with the same five points that is one less than that on reaching the second position in the Swedish group. The leaders of the selection are the Austrians, who won three matches and a draw (10 points).
The match in Montenegro would be historic for the Russians – is one of three European teams, which our team has never met. The other two are Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Gibraltar.
Also on Friday will play the match Liechtenstein – Austria, Moldova – Sweden.
Skaters will return Russian gold
World Figure Skating Championships this year will be held in Shanghai from 25 to 28 March. The Russian team will be represented by a maximum quota of participants in all disciplines except the men’s figure skating. Here Russia will be two of the three possible competitors.
Squad Russia:
Men – Sergei Voronov Maxim Kovtun;
Women – Anna Pogorilaya Elena Radionova, Elizabeth Tuktamysheva;
Couples – Christina Astakhov – Alex Rogonov, Yuko Kawaguchi – Alexander – Smirnov, Yevgeny Tarasov – Vladimir Morozov;
Dancing – Elena Ilina – Ruslan Zhiganshin, Xenia Monki – Cyril Halyavin, Alexander Stepanov – Ivan Bukin.
In the past, the world championship Russian posleolimpiyskom skaters were left without gold medals, content with just two silver medals. Their owners this season was a failure Lipnitskaya Julia and Xenia pole and Fedor Klimov, which at the end of February in the list of participants FM-2015 and replaced Astakhov Rogonov.
triumphators 2014 World Cup, which was held in Tokyo, the Japanese steel, won two gold (Yuzuru Hanyu and Mao Asada) and silver (Tatsuki Machida).
Incentives for “Siberia»
battle for the Gagarin Cup in the Continental Hockey League finals reached the stage of Western and Eastern conferences. Matches start of the series, respectively, 26 and 27 March.
The strongest club of the West will identify two army staff – Moscow and St. Petersburg. Host the first matches will be CSKA, who won gold medals in the regular season, and in the second round of the playoffs in five games outplayed Finnish “Jokerit.”
Generally, all series of the second round ended with the score 4-1, and in the conference finals left the team, who took the 1-2-th place in the regular season.
In the East, the defense of Kazan “Ak Bars” will be tested on the strength of the Novosibirsk “Siberia”. Team of Tatarstan on the results of the last round of Gagarin Cup just two hockey players were the best in their categories – goalkeeper Anders Nilsson, three times in five games won back “zero”, as well as defender Stepan Zakharchuk, who collected 3 (2 + 1) points with a rating “5″.
«Siberia” knocked out of the pot the current holder of the Gagarin Cup – Magnitogorsk “Metallurg” and courage and ready to proceed to the main tournament final. Only stimulus, such as those that were in the second round – shaved bald genmenedzher or brought to the fore the press attache. The main thing is not to the contrary!
The racing debut Kvyat among the “bulls»
second stage of the World Cup Racing Series “Formula 1″ will be held in Malaysia from 27 to 29 March. The title of last year’s winner on the track at Sepang will defend British driver of “Mercedes” Lewis Hamilton, who won the March 15 in Melbourne and start a race this season.
Race Malaysian Grand Prix will take place on Sunday morning Moscow time. Russian motorsport fans will not have to wake up at 8 am Moscow time, as it was during the Australian Grand Prix – start will be given at 10.00 MSK.
But the main thing is that by this time did not happen what happened in Melbourne, when due to a problem with the gearbox at the last moment in the race could not take part Russian pilot of the “Red Bull” Daniil Kvyat. Thus, its racing debut in the new “stable” was postponed for two weeks.
A year ago in Malaysia Kwiat, speaking of “Toro Rosso”, 1-goal scored points, finishing 10th place.
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