Of the many sports events organised for international students of Nizhny Novgorod Region, the annual spring sports festival is particularly attractive to supporters. The event, which took place on Thursday, May 21, at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University Sports Centre, included a mini-football tournament and table tennis tournament featuring players from different nations.

Lobachevsky University’s international students won Mini Football Tournament Final for the second year running, beating Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy 6-1. UNN forward from Algeria Yacin Mahmoudi was named the best player of the tournament. And UNN goalkeeper from Turkey Emre Avci deserves to be awarded the trophy for stopping the ball going into our goal and kicking the ball twice into the opponent's goal!

Table tennis player Bo Wu (Master’s student from China at UNN) won bronze – the first medal for UNN in this tournament.

Congratulations to our Mini-Football Team and thanks to all our table tennis players!

UNN Mini-Football Team
Goalkeeper 1 Emre Avci (Turkey)
Goalkeeper 2 Brahim El Mazmour (Morocco)
Forward Yacin Mahmoudi (Algeria)
Forward Evaristo Manaca Gomes (Angola)
Forward Mauro Emanuel Pinto Gregorio (Angola)
Forward Chukwuemeka Emmanuel Ibe (Nigeria)
Defender Abderrahmane Zitouni (Algeria)
Defender Djibril Ndiaye (Gabon)
Defender Amr Hisham Talaat Emam Abdelghafar (Egypt)
Defender Sandro Pedro Matias (Angola)
Defender Luzala Pedro Dieno (Angola)

UNN table tennis players: Bo Wu (China), Eric Ahimah (Ghana), Hao Fu (China) and Olha Ivashechkina (Ukraine)