The intrigue kept to the last. Volleyball player Yakovlev about reaching the final of the Spartakiad

Ivan Yakovlev, blocking the St. Petersburg volleyball team, said that the intrigue before reaching the final of the tournament at the All-Russian Spartakiad in Summer Sports among the strongest athletes in 2022 lasted until the last match.

On Friday, the St. Petersburg team defeated the national team of the Kemerovo region in the final round of the group stage of the Spartakiad and reached the final of the tournament, where they will play with volleyball players from the team of Tatarstan.

“After the game, it’s hard to say how I feel. We are glad that we reached the final, the intrigue kept to the last, everything depended on today’s match. We knew we needed to win 3-0 to go further.

Spartakiad is a tough tournament. So many games in a row, the load makes itself felt, but we try not to think about it. Tomorrow is a day to recover and fight again.

We have already become a different team, more united. We rolled around, got used to it. Let’s show another volleyball that you could watch in the first meeting, ”the press service of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VVF) quotes Yakovlev as saying.

The final match will take place on August 21 in Moscow.