Victory Parade from World of Warships
The developers of the popular online game World of Warships presented their version of the Victory Parade. The scene of events was Leningrad in the first half of the 1960s. In the virtual version of the holiday, battleships, destroyers, and cruisers like the ones that participated in the naval battles of World War II passed along the Neva. Despite the daytime, for them they “bred” bridges over the river.
Virtual ships were provided with reference information. For example, it was possible to find out from the video that the Molotov cruiser was commissioned in 1941, developed a speed of 36 knots and had a crew of 898 people, and the destroyer Ognevoy was already used in 1945. More than half a million users watched the video of the Victory Parade on Youtube.
Meanwhile, Japanese Hamako Mori was officially recognized as the oldest gamer on the planet. As it turned out, the elderly lady was included in the list of champions back in November 2019 at the age of 89. She became interested in games after 50. In addition to streams, Mori leads a channel on video hosting with 180 thousand subscribers. Every day, a Japanese woman plays computer games for at least seven to eight hours. She is very worried if she can not pass the next mission the first time.
Argentine President opts for Maradona Messi
In Argentina, even during the coronavirus pandemic, the debate about the best football player of the country of all time does not cease. This time, President Alberto Fernandez was asked to make his choice between Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. To the dismay of fans of the Barcelona striker, the politician named the current mentor of Gimnasia and Esgrima from La Plata. According to Fernandez, Maradona did incredible things on the field, and therefore surpasses the more team player Messi.
“Diego is the best player I've seen,” said the Argentine president.
But the leader of Dancing Undertakers from Ghana, Benjamin Aidu, on the contrary, turned out to be a fan of Messi. Renowned for his many memes, the character admitted that of all the players he would like to dance with Leo, as well as Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldinho. As the African explained, he appreciates the Portuguese for his personality, the Argentinean for his performing skills, and the Brazilian for the fact that he always smiles. With all three, Aidu expressed a desire to play football.
By the way, on May 8, Barca resumed training at its base. Apparently, Messi is in great shape, despite the long quarantine. The ball control demonstrated by him in the first lesson after the break has already managed to delight all sports fans.
Song Heung Min passed military training
Tottenham striker Son Heung Min had to go through military training in the Korean army instead of training. According to Korean law, even stars of the first magnitude are not exempted from them.
True, they made certain concessions for Mina. Thanks to the victory with the national team at the 2018 Asian Games, he, like other players, was able to avoid military duty in full.
Therefore, instead of serving for 21 months, Son Heung Min had to go through only truncated three-week training camps. It was not difficult for a well-trained physician to fulfill the required standards. So, the 27-year-old midfielder entered the top five in his age group in all respects and showed the first result in shooting.
In addition, he withstood 30-kilometer full-march throws, a gas attack and military exercises with biological weapons.
The striker completed the young fighter course on Jeju Island. Moreover, Song Heung Min himself chose this period for labor service when the championship of England was interrupted due to a pandemic and, thus, avoided problems with the employer.
Heung-Min Son has completed his three-week military training in South Korea.
He hit 10/10 during a shooting course and finished in the top five out of 157 trainees, reports @ TheKoreaHeraldpic.twitter.com / Yh3gDFqWMS
Kamba's wife received payments for her living husband
Former Schalke defender Hyannik Kamba was considered dead. Moreover, his death was documented in 2016. Newspapers wrote about this.
No one doubted that Kamba crashed in an accident. However, journalists have now spotted the player in Gelsenkirchen, where he works for an energy company. Kamba explained that four years ago after friends had thrown him in Congo, they took documents, a mobile phone and money from a football player with them. Back in 2018, Kamba turned to the German embassy in Kinshasa in order to prove that he was actually alive. However, due to the loss of ID, the process took a long time.
The situation took advantage of the former wife of the athlete. She is accused of providing false documents about her husband’s death in order to receive insurance payments. The woman received the necessary paper in Congo. Moreover, Kamba himself claims that he did not even know about his "death". He has not lived for a long time with an enterprising wife, who alone is raising their son. If you believe the athlete, the girl adjusted everything herself, without devoting it to her plans. She received an impressive amount, but now, apparently, will be responsible for fraud under the law. The investigation of the case has begun.
Kamba’s big career was essentially not working out. At the time of his mysterious disappearance, he played in the lower leagues. His last club was Huls. But in the 2003/2004 season, the defender was part of Schalke. According to German media, he was promised a great future.
Bottas reached the Russian border by bicycle
Valtteri Bottas, a Formula 1 racer from the Mercedes team, in turn, missed physical activity so much during self-isolation that he decided to ride a bike. Love of skiing led him to the border in Russia.
The 30-year-old pilot made an unusual trip with his girlfriend Tiffany Cromwell. They left their home in Nastol and without any problems reached the border crossing in Nuyamaa. The length of the segment, thus, amounted to 203 km.
According to Bottas, it was a “wonderful trip.” Cromwell, in turn, noticed that there is no better way to explore the Finnish hinterland than to ride a couple of hundred kilometers on a bike.
"The sun, smiles, coffee, food - what could be better?" She added.
However, the couple preferred to go back by car.
It is possible that Bottas has special feelings for Russia. It was at the Grand Prix in Sochi in 2017 that he won his first victory in Formula 1.
Beautiful 203km ride from Nastola to the Russian border today with @tiffanycromwell 🇫🇮 I mean why not 😉💪🏼 # VB77 # fromwhereiride # training # friday # boompic.twitter.com / 8UNMG7Xw5V
- Valtteri Bottas (@ValtteriBottas) May 8, 2020Lovchev spoke about the agreement
The best footballer of the USSR in 1972, Yevgeny Lovchev quarantined memories of the past. In an interview with SE, the former Spartak player unexpectedly admitted that in 1970 his partners lost the match with Chernomorets in Odessa.
If you believe Lovchev, the red and white then already guaranteed themselves third place, and their rivals were threatened with a flight to the first division. Therefore, the Spartacists decided to help the team in need of points for a "modest reward." At the same time, according to Lovchev, he refused to take money.
“I was sure that the three did not take the money - I, Vitka Papaev, a crystal football man, and Kolya Abramov. But Kolya was brought in during the break. How much did they pay? 500 rubles each, the guys told me, ”said Lovchev.
However, the victory of Chernomorets did not save. Odessans still had to go down in class.
Anzor Kavazashvili, a participant in the 50-year-old game, did not agree with the accusations made by his former teammate. According to the ex-goalkeeper, in Lovchev’s head, "cockroaches are running." Kavazashvili allegedly already ashamed a colleague for various inventions.
“In that game we were choked, but I took all the balls, did not miss. At the end, the player of the Black Sea Fleet swung into an empty net, hits, I hit the ball, and he turns to me with a terrible scream, with a foul language: “What the hell are you doing ?! Didn’t they tell you that they didn’t give money ?! ” He stopped short, and then I realized that the game was really sold by some of the players, ”Kavazashvili noted, but he resolutely took away all suspicions from himself.
Spiridonov complained of an attempted robbery
Volleyball player Alexei Spiridonov said that he was attacked by two unknown persons. The incident occurred near the branch of one of the banks in Moscow, where he came out with a friend.
“One got a bream, the second for a knife, barely fought off, he seems to be alive,” the athlete specified in his Twitter account, calling the attackers Uzbeks.
However, not all subscribers believed Spiridonov’s story. Some called him a dreamer, while others tried to clarify how the faces of the criminals could be determined.
A volleyball player later said that the attack occurred in a parking lot near a shopping center located on the Kiev highway near the Moscow Ring Road. At the same time, Spiridonov refused to contact the police, explaining that he was a “normal man.”
But the police still found the attackers. It turned out that a few minutes before meeting with Spiridonov, one of the criminals quarreled with the bank with a knife in his hand. They wrote a statement, and a criminal case was launched against the attackers under the article “Hooliganism”.
In the police, the athlete found out that his offenders were not at all Uzbeks, as he had stated earlier, but Tajiks.
“I apologize to the Uzbeks,” Spiridonov wrote on Twitter.