The Piranha Yeti team, led by coaches Oleg Kuznetsov and Yaroslav Isakov, returned home to Veliky Novgorod with victory. Novgorodians won the all-Russian floorball tournament “Russian Autumn” in Nizhny Novgorod by age.
In the final, our competitors defeated last year’s winner from Kazan. Novgorodians overall won 6 victories in 6 games with a final goal difference of 37:16.
The best players of the tournament at their age were Novgorod goalkeeper Yevgeny Varlamov and striker Oleg Kuznetsov.
A total of 14 teams participated in the tournament – 2 from Nizhny Novgorod, 2 from Nizhny Novgorod region, 3 from Severodvinsk, 3 from Tatarstan, one team each from Arkhangelsk, Novy Urengoy, Anapa and Veliky Novgorod.
The portal of the Veliky Novgorod administration indicates the full composition of the national team: Ruslan Zhirunov – captain (Eureka gymnasium), Oleg Kuznetsov (Novoskul gymnasium), Ivan Kalinov, Igor Pismensky, Muso Dodov (school No. 23), Vladimir Borisov ( school number 2), Leonid Efimov, Nikita Ivanov, Yevgeny Varlamov (school number 37), Kirill Rybnikov (school number 18) and Svyatoslav Kiryushkin (school number 291, St. Petersburg).
Photo courtesy of the GTO Complex Test Center in Veliky Novgorod