The Belarusian national beach soccer team won the international tournament "Friendship Cup" in Vitebsk

August 22, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. The Belarusian national beach soccer team has won the "Friendship Cup" at the international tournament, which concluded today in Vitebsk, BELTA correspondent reports. In the final match, the Belarusian team snatched a victory with a score of 5:4 over the Latvian team in a tough fight. Vadim Bokach scored the winning goal with 4 minutes left in the third period. Lithuania took third place. The Friendship Cup, as well as medals, were awarded to the winners and prize-winners of the tournament, and commemorative cups from the organizers were presented to the teams of the Kaliningrad region and Moldova, which took 4th and 5th places, respectively. Belarusian Ivan Miranovich was recognized as the best defender of the "Friendship Cup". The award for the best goalkeeper was presented to Lithuanian goalkeeper Dmitry Shelkovsky, and the best forward was Dmitry Yakovlev from the Latvian team. The top scorer of the tournament was also a player from the Latvian team, Andis Dombrovskis, who scored 6 goals. The "Friendship Cup" beach soccer tournament was the first international competition in Belarus in this sport. 5 teams took part in the tournament. The organizers are the association "Belarusian Football Federation", the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and the Vitebsk City Executive Committee. -0-