Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Super Cup. Zenit — Spartak

While the World Cup is coming to an end, Russian football is preparing for the start of the new season. It will fully begin next week with the matches of the first round of the Russian Premier League, but the first official game with the participation of Premier League teams will take place next weekend. In Nizhny Novgorod, the winners of the two main tournaments of last season, the reigning national champion Zenit St. Petersburg and the Russian Cup winner Spartak Moscow, will meet in the match for the Russian Super Cup.

July 18, 19:30, Sovcombank Arena (Nizhny Novgorod).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

World championship. The match for the third place. France — England

A little less than a day before the World Championship finals, the bronze medalist will be determined. The French national team was one step away from reaching the finals for the third time in a row. But after winning the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup silver in Qatar, Didier Deschamps' team continued to lower the bar and, after losing to Spain (0:2), they will now be able to take away only the bronze from the USA. The British, who led 1-0 at the end of the semi-final with Argentina, but lost 1-2 and missed the chance to play in the World Cup decider for the first time in 60 years, will try to prevent them from doing this. Nevertheless, if successful in the game against the French, England will achieve its best result at the World Championships since 1966, when it won the home World Cup.

July 19, 0:00 a.m., Hard Rock Stadium (Miami, USA).

Live broadcast on Kinopoisk.

World championship. The final. Spain — Argentina

The final match will be held in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The reigning world champion Argentina and the winner of the last European Championship Spain will compete for the title. For Lionel Messi, this meeting may be the last at a tournament of this level. One of the main intrigues of the final will be his confrontation with 19-year-old Lamin Yamal— probably the main star of world football in the coming decades.

July 19, 22:00, MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, USA).

Live broadcast on Match TV.

The Fraternal Cup. Dynamo (Moscow) — CSKA

The pre-season training of the RPL clubs is coming to an end. A week later, the Russian championship will open with the CSKA — Baltika match. So far, the army team is holding one of the last summer test matches. At the weekend, they will have a traditional Moscow derby with Dynamo as part of the Fraternal Cup.

July 18, 18:00, VTB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcast on VK Video.

Tennis

ATP-250 Tournament

Andrey Rublev is fighting for the trophy in the Swedish city of Bostad. The Russian tennis player, who is in 16th place in the ATP rankings, has already reached the quarterfinals, where he will face the winner of the Jesper de Jong/Sebastian Baes pair. If he wins a day later, Rublev will play in the semifinals with Argentine Thiago Tirante or Chilean Alejandro Tabilo. In the other two quarterfinals, Paraguayan Adolfo Vallejo will take the court against Italian Stefano Travaglia, and Portuguese Nuno Borges will take the court against another Italian Luciano Darderi.

July 17, quarterfinals:
12:00, Vallejo — Travaglia;
13:30, Borges — Darderi;
15:30, Rublev — de Jong/Baes;
17:00, Tabilo Tirante.

July 18th:
14:00, first semi-final;
16:30, the second semi-final.

July 19, 3 p.m., final.

Bostad Tennis Stadium (Bostad, Sweden).

Live broadcasts on the ATP website.