Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The World Cup is 2026. Quarterfinals. Spain – Belgium, Norway – England, Argentina – Sweden

There is just over a week left until the end of the world Football championship, which is at a crucial stage. On the night of July 10, Moscow time, the quarterfinals began with the France–Morocco match. Three more matches of this stage will be played next weekend. First, the reigning European champion, the Spanish national team, will face Belgium. Then one of the main sensations of the tournament, Norway, which knocked Brazil out of the World Cup (2-1), will compete with England for reaching the semifinals. Finally, the reigning world champion, Argentina, will play Switzerland.

July 10, 22:00, SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, USA).

July 12th:
00:00, Hard Rock Stadium (Miami, USA);
04:00, Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City, USA).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Football 1 and Kinopoisk.

Friendly matches. Lokomotiv – Spartak, Zenit — Crvena Zvezda

The RPL clubs are in a crucial stage of preparation for the new season. In addition to training, they actively hold friendly matches. Some of them have top-of-the-line signage. Two of these events will take place next weekend. On July 11, we are waiting for the Moscow derby between the current bronze medalist of the championship, Lokomotiv, and the current winner of the Russian Cup, Spartak. A day later, the reigning Russian champion Zenit will host the Serbian champion, Crvena Zvezda Belgrade.

July 11, 20:00, Russian Railways Arena Stadium (Moscow);

July 12, Gazprom Arena Stadium (Saint Petersburg).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

"Jikiya is a reinforcement for our team"

Lokomotiv football player Evgeny Morozov — about the club's newbie status, the performance of his defensive partner for the Mexican national team at the World Cup and preparations for the new season

Box

Tournament IBA.PRO . Murat Gassiev as Peter Kadiru

A professional boxing evening will be held in Moscow on July 11. IBA.PRO 19. The main fight will be a duel with the participation of Russian Murat Gassiev. It was originally planned that he would make his first defense of the WBA heavyweight championship belt against Frenchman Tony Yockey. But shortly before the fight, he was forced to withdraw from the fight due to a back injury. Peter Kadiru, a German of Ghanaian origin, will now face Gassiev. In addition, nine more matches are scheduled in the tournament card. Russians participate in all of them. Two of them will be title fights — Artem Suslenkov in the heavyweight division for the WBA Continental champion belt will enter the ring against British Joseph Joyce, and Pavel Sosulin in the first middleweight division will fight for the belt. IBA.PRO International with Venezuelan Eddie Colmenares.

July 11, 16:00, VTB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcast on Channel One.

Mixed martial arts

UFC 329

At the upcoming UFC tournament in Las Vegas, the main event will be the return to the octagon of the most famous fighter on the planet in recent decades, Irishman Connor McGregor. This is the first fight involving a dual UFC featherweight and lightweight champion in four years since he broke his leg at UFC 264 in July 2021. Next weekend, he will fight former featherweight champion Max Holloway. The fight will take place in the welterweight division — Holloway will make his debut in this category. At the same time, this tournament will not be complete without Russians: Nikita Krylov in the light heavyweight preliminary card will fight with Australian Robert Whittaker.

July 12th:
03:20, Whittaker – Krylov;
06:00, McGregor – Holloway.

T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, USA).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Fighter.