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The Silver Romantsev Cup belongs to the BEKO football team!
Every year the Oleg Romantsev Cup corporate mini-football tournament brings together dozens of teams from large Russian companies. Beko football players took part in the competition for the first time and won the Silver cup!
Many employees in Beko play sports, we have had the football team since a while. Our players took part in various competitions, but this was their first game at a tournament of this level. Oleg Romantsev is a legend of Russian football, football player and coach of Spartak Moscow, and we had the honor of receiving the award from him personally. The competition took place in Moscow, at the arena of the Spartak Football Academy. The tournament featured 24 teams playing six games in a row throughout the day with 10-minute breaks. The high pressure due to such a harsh pace required special endurance from the players. Sporting passions were literally boiling on the field. The fans actively supported their teams.

Six groups of four teams played first, then the first and second places in each group competed for the gold cup, and the rest for the silver cup. Beko lost the first games - both opponents were strong, and the lack of experience in such competitions took its toll.
“When we lost the first game, I thought that we needed to change the lineup,” says our team leader Vladimir Verkhoglyad. – Before this tournament we went through training, the core team was stable and well-coordinated. But still, football is football, the result of training efforts is shown only by the game, and some people cannot always pull themselves together. We swapped people around and started playing better. We made it out of the group, but won in the Silver Cup draw. We had three playoff matches. We tied the first match, beat the Can-Pak team with a score of 3:0 in the second, and defeated the Astra Linux team in the final game – 3:0! For us, the most exciting event was the realization of reaching the final and fighting for the cup. Morale immediately improved. It was a pity, of course, that we did not perform well right away, but I think that the team played very well at the first tournament of this level. Our factory football is gaining momentum and experience every year, and if last year we did not win a single prize even at local competitions, this year we brought the cup from Moscow.”
Ahead of the team is the corporate Beko tournament in Turkey at the end of September. Teams from different countries, including such traditionally "football" countries as Italy and the Netherlands will attended it. It won't be easy, but our players are determined to win. The Moscow tournament showed that we can improve and how we should play, so we believe that our guys will bring home new awards!
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