Belarus wins Albania in mini-football World Cup qualifier

The national team of Belarus won the first victory in the qualifying tournament of the world championship on mini-football, writes BelTA.

In today's nominally home match in the Slovak Humenna, the wards of Alexandra Cernik defeated the Albanian team with a score of 8: 2. The Belarusians very actively began the meeting and by the middle of the first half five times hit the gates of the opponents. In the future, the game was dictated by our team, and in the end she won by a margin of six goals. The scoring double of the winners was issued by Dmitry Shvedko, once distinguished by Sergey Krykun, Yuri Dubkov, Maxim Baturin, Andrei Semenyuk, Vitaly Shadurka and Sergey Sinitsky.

At the start of the competition, on October 20, the Belarusians lost to the Kazakhstan national team in Astana with a minimum difference in the score - 4: 5. As part of the guests, Sergey Krykun scored a scoring double, Maxim Baturin and Dmitry Shvedko once distinguished themselves. The Belarusians will hold the second match with Kazakhstan on November 10 in Gumenna, and on February 26, 2027, in the last meeting of the 6th qualifying group, they will play with the Albanians in Tirana.

Directly into the elite round of European qualification will be the winners of the 12 groups and the top four teams who finish second. The remaining eight second-place winners will play in play-offs and determine four more participants in the elite stage. According to the results of the qualifying tournament, seven European teams will play at the World Cup, but if the right to hold the final stage is entrusted to the UEFA national association, then its team will receive a direct ticket, and according to the results of qualification, only six European teams will get to the World Cup.

The final stage of the 11th Planetary Forum will take place from 7 to 29 October 2028, with 24 teams from all continents taking part. Belarusians have never played in the final stage of the world championship on mini-football. In the decisive match of the last world championship, held in 2024 in Uzbekistan, the Brazilian team with the score 2: 1 defeated the Argentines, winning the sixth title. Two times the champions of the planet became the Spaniards, once gold took the Portuguese and Argentines.