Red Star Belgrade win the Friendship Cup
On 9 and 10 February, the IV International Youth Tournament Friendship Cup took place.
In the first match of the second day, Zenit U14s won again with the score 1: 0 - the only goal was scored by Nikita Lobov.
Red Star won the remaining games taking the U15s match 3-1, the U16s match 4-1 and the U17 game 2-1.
Savely Nikiforov (2005), Kirill Stolbov (2004), Yaroslav Mikhailov (2003) and Arseny Zigangirov (2002) were all awarded the best player awards for their teams during the tournament.
The Friendship Cup was the first international tournament for the Gazprom Academy this year. On 9 and 10 March the Dmitry Besov Cup will be held at the Academy and on 22–25 August the Yuri Morozov memorial tournament will take place.