The football team of the State Duma beat the Bundestag members

The State Duma football team played with the team of members of the German Bundestag, beating the German parliamentarians 2:1. The match took place at the stadium of the sports club ”Siemensstadt“ in the capital district of Spandau in Berlin on May 6.

The match began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the plane crash at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, which killed 41 people. Before the match, the captain of the Bundestag team, Mahmut Özdemir, on behalf of the German side expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

The German parliamentarian reminded that the parliamentarians of the two countries discussed “critical topics and exchanged points of view on them” before the game. “Sometimes friends have to say not so pleasant things to each other,” said Mahmut Özdemir.

“We want to continue working in the sphere of our parliamentary cooperation,” said the member of the Bundestag.

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Valerii Georgieviсh , Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs, said after the match that it was “very difficult”. “The Bundestag team very well prepared to the match, at home we beat them with a more impressive result. We saw that they tried, fought but still our players are stronger,” he said.

In his turn, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, Aleksandr Zhukov Zhukov
Alexander Dmitrievich , said that “this time it was a very difficult game. The opponent was much stronger than in Moscow. We were determined to win, we lost in the first period and won 2:1. We all played very well, today we had more than 20 people, and everyone took part.”

The previous match between the Russian and German parliamentarians was held at the Krasnaya Presnya stadium in Moscow in 2018. Then the match ended with the score 5:3 in favor of the team of the State Duma.

During a visit to Berlin the delegation of the State Duma, headed by First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Aleksandr Zhukov, discussed topical issues of the international agenda, including the topic of lifting the EU-Russia mutual sanctions, the Nord Stream 2 project and situation in Ukraine, with colleagues from the Bundestag.