The Karaganda team won silver in digital football at the BRICS Games

The team of Karaganda athletes took the second place in digital football at the BRICS Games. The participants of the United Esports Leagues esports league and the players of the Tulpar team played well in tandem.

The BRICS Games were held in Kazan. According to official data, 4,600 athletes from 86 countries participated in the international championship. For a week and a half, athletes competed in 27 sports.

114 athletes represented Kazakhstan at the Games. Competing in 13 sports, they took tenth place in the team medal standings. They have won 2 gold, 10 silver and 17 bronze awards.

The competition program also included digital football. A team consisting exclusively of athletes from the Karaganda region performed from Kazakhstan. This is a quartet of Tulpar football players and a quartet of United Esports Leagues virtual ball masters. In the final, the Karaganda team lost only to the Russians with a score of 7:9. The result was a silver medal.

– The digital football competition consists of two parts: First, the players fight in a football simulator, then go out on a real football field. That is, interactive and real sports in one bottle. In total, 12 countries were declared in our discipline. We considered the players from Brazil and Russia to be our main rivals. But already in the group we beat the Brazilian national team with a score of 7:6. The Belarusian national team was beaten in the quarterfinals, and the Venezuelan team in the semifinals. I didn't have enough experience and a little luck to win. But the team gave their best. We hope that we will perform even better at the BRICS Games next year," says Yevgeny Nabiulin, President of the Karaganda Region Esports Federation.

Athletes of the United Esports Leagues of the Karaganda region today have a constant gaming practice, participate in world championships, various international tournaments in two directions – cyber football and cyber hockey.