Sports weekend with Izvestia

Hockey

Match of the Year

For the second summer in a row, Moscow will host an exhibition match featuring the best Russian NHL and KHL hockey players. This time at the CSKA Arena on Avtozavodskaya Street, viewers will be able to see such megastars as Alexander Ovechkin, Sergey Bobrovsky, Evgeny Malkin, Artemy Panarin, Mikhail Sergachev, Andrey Svechnikov, Dmitry Orlov, Kirill Kaprizov and many others. They will play for the Western team, which includes representatives of the NHL. As part of the East team, Vadim Shipachev, Egor Yakovlev, Vladimir Tkachev, Ilya Kovalchuk, Maxim Shalunov and a dozen other bright people will take the ice.

July 13, 18:00, CSKA Arena (Moscow). Live broadcast on Channel One

Football

The Russian Super Cup. Krasnodar — CSKA

A new season in Russian football will begin on Saturday. As usual, the start will be given by the Russian Super Cup, which will be held in Kazan. In it, the reigning Russian champion Krasnodar will face the winner of the last Russian Cup at the moment, CSKA Moscow.

July 12, 18:00, Ak Bars Arena Stadium (Kazan). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

The World Club Championship. The final. Chelsea — PSG

At the end of the week, FIFA's main experiment of recent years will be completed. The first World Club Championship of such a large scale, which has been taking place in the USA for almost a month, will recognize its winner. 32 teams from all continents gathered across the ocean. And two clubs reached the decisive meeting — London Chelsea and French PSG. The French club had an extremely successful last season, in which it won the Champions League for the first time in its history. And now he is confidently heading for another trophy, which may involve the reserve goalkeeper of PSG, Russian Matvey Safonov. To do this, you need to win the decisive match, which will be held in the city of East Rutherford, New Jersey.

July 13, 22:00, MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, USA). Live broadcast on Okko Sport

Water sports

World championship

The next world championship in water sports, one of the most medal—intensive competitions in world sports, starts in Singapore on Friday. It will take place within the next three days. Among the participants there will be Russians who will perform in a neutral status. This is the first such major tournament for our team after February 2022. And you can expect a lot of medals from them, especially from the swimmers who successfully competed at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest in December.

July 11-13, 04:00 – 15:45, " Singapore Sports Center" (Singapore). Live broadcasts on "Match! The game"

Chess

Women. The World Cup

At the end of last week, one of the main women's chess tournaments of the year started in Batumi. In addition to the prize pool of almost $ 700 thousand. This competition is also interesting because it is a qualifier for the tournament of candidates for the chess crown. This year, six of our representatives are taking part in the World Cup from Russia — Alexandra Goryachkina, who won it two years ago, as well as Ekaterina Lagno, Valentina Gunina, Daria Charochkina, Polina Shuvalova and Anna Shukhman. According to the results of the last matches, all of them reached the 1/16 finals.

July 11-13, 2 p.m., Chess Palace (Batumi, Georgia). Live broadcasts on the FIDE website