Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

Friendly matches. Colombia Youth National Team – Russian youth national team

This week, the Russian first national team played a friendly match with Grenada (5-0), which will go down in history with Artyom Dzyuba's goal, which broke the record for goals for the national team. But she's not the only one who has test matches in March. The Russian youth national team is making another trip to South America. This weekend, our team of players under the age of 20 will play twice against their peers from Colombia. Earlier, starting in the fall of 2023, the national youth team held a series of matches in Brazil and Uruguay with local teams.

March 22, 03:00, Raul Miranda Stadium (Yumbo, Colombia). March 23, 23:55, Pascual Guerrero Stadium (Cali, Colombia). Live broadcasts on Match TV

Hockey

KHL Regular Season. Dynamo (Moscow) – Lokomotiv, CSKA – Dynamo (Minsk), Avtomobilist – Metallurg

The KHL regular season will end this weekend. All 16 participants of the playoffs, which starts in the middle of next week, have already been determined. But in the remaining days of the regular season, the audience is waiting for several bright confrontations. The two leaders of the Western Conference, Dynamo Moscow and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, will play against each other in the capital and test their strength before the relegation series. And the other match in Moscow will largely determine how the pairs will be distributed in the playoffs. CSKA will host Dinamo Minsk on its ice. These teams are in fourth and fifth place in the West and will determine among themselves who will start the first round of the Gagarin Cup at home. In addition, the Ural derby will be held in the last days of the regular season, in which Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist will meet Magnitogorsk Metallurg. The outcome of this meeting also determines who will play whom in the East in the opening round of the playoffs.

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March 22, 19:30: VTB Arena (Moscow); CSKA Arena (Moscow). March 23, 2:30 p.m., UMMC Arena (Yekaterinburg). Live broadcasts on Match TV, KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk

Tennis

Miami Masters and WTA 1000 Tournaments

Last week, the first Masters men's tennis tournament of the season was held in Indian Wells, USA. The second such competition began in the middle of this week in Miami. The winner will receive 1,000 points. Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov will play the first matches of this tournament this weekend. In parallel, the WTA-1000 women's tournament will be held there, where eight Russians will perform. Two of them, Veronika Kudermetova and Mirra Andreeva, will play against each other. And this will be Andreeva's first match since her thousandth Indian Wells triumph, which she won last weekend. Both men's and women's matches of the second and third rounds will be held in the coming days.

March 21-23, 00:00 – 04:00, 21:00 – 00:00. Hard Rock Stadium (Miami, USA). Live broadcasts on the ATP and WTA websites

Ski racing

The Russian Championship. Classic style mass start

At the end of the ski season in Russia, the national championship is held in several stages. In early March, most of the medals in short- and medium-distance races, as well as in relay races, were awarded in Kazan. In April, the season in the Murmansk region will end with mass freestyle starts. And next weekend in the village of Vylgort near Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic, men's and women's 50 km classic style mass starts will be held. There, the audience will see the main stars of Russian skiing, including Olympic champions and World Cup winners Alexander Bolshunov and Natalia Terentyeva.

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March 22, 10:00 a.m., women. March 23, 10:00 a.m., men. Ski complex named after Raisa Smetanina (Syktyvkar). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The planet"

Basketball

VTB United League. UNICS – "Locomotive-Kuban"

The VTB United League regular season will come to an end in April. Each team has six to seven matches left to play before the pairs form in the playoffs. But it is already clear that the first four places in the table will be occupied by CSKA Moscow, Kazan UNICS, Zenit St. Petersburg and Krasnodar Lokomotiv Kuban. Now they are fighting within their quartet to finish the regular season as high as possible in the table and reach the quarterfinals from more advantageous positions. In this regard, the face-to-face match between the two teams from this leading group scheduled for next weekend will be important, in which UNICS will host Lokomotiv Kuban on its site.

March 22, 14:00. Basket Hall (Kazan). Live broadcast on Match TV