The Russian youth national team defeated Cameroon with a score of 9:2

The Russian national under-15 football team scored a major victory over the Cameroon team with a score of 9:2 in the quarterfinals of the playoffs for 17th-32nd places at the International Football Federation (FIFA) tournament. The meeting took place on October 29 at the Olympic Sports Complex in the village of Govsan in Azerbaijan.

The most productive player of the match was Matvey Rodionov, who scored a hat-trick. Matvey Abdulkhalikov, Anatoly Tsimin, Arsen Bestaev, Karim Zalyalov, Egor Lyusin and Ilya Khrabry each scored one goal for the Cameroonian national team.

Earlier, Russian football players defeated the South Korean national team with a score of 4:1 in the 1/8 finals, but before that they lost to the Mexicans with a score of 2:3 in the 1/16 finals of the main playoffs. Now the team will continue to fight for 17th place. Her next opponent will be the national team of Peru, which is scheduled to meet on Thursday, October 29.

Competitions are held according to shortened rules: eight players from each team are on the field at the same time, and the duration of the match is 40 minutes. The playing time is divided into two halves of 20 minutes each, and meetings are held at smaller venues.

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On October 26, the Russian youth national football team finished the group stage of the FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Festival in Azerbaijan in first place. She managed to score five wins in five matches with a total goal difference of 44:1.