The friendly match between the team of Vnesheconombank and the Russian Black Sea Fleet team took place at the stadium of the Sevastopol sports complex - the best sports ground in the city. According to the organizers of the event, the first ever competition between sailors and bankers will now become a good tradition and will be held annually. VEB Chairman Vladimir Alexandrovich Dmitriev explained the opponent’s somewhat unexpected choice by the fact that Muscovites wanted to provide symbolic support to Russian Black Sea men serving in the near abroad with this game. In addition, among the bank employees there are many reserve officers who do not lose contact with the armed forces - the author of the second goal against the BSF team - Anzhei Tosta (expert of the 2nd category of VEB), played for three years for the CSKA baseball team and served in the MBO sports company.
The more played and experienced VEB team, which has several rosters and won in many tournaments (including over the national team of Russian sports veterans), had an advantage during the whole match, which resulted in a 2-1 win. The first goal was scored by Denis Kuleshov, an expert of the 1st category of VEB. I must say that even losing, the sailors did not give up, even losing with a score of 2: 0 and having a very diverse team in terms of training and age (the captain of the 2nd rank also played in it and 
foremen, and sailors, and even a veteran of naval football - Oleg Rybalchenko). Having earned 2 yellow cards and one deletion, they nevertheless found an opportunity in the last minute to bring Oleg Harutu, the sailor of the BPC “Kerch”, to the shock position, who correctly disposed of the situation and saved his team from a dry defeat.
Vladimir Dmitriev, declared as part of the VEb national team under number 77, could not take part in the match, citing a lack of time for preparation, but promised to certainly enter the field in the return game, which will be held in Moscow.