The Russian astronauts will play soccer on ISS. In space they already played tennis and badminton

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Today ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION held the preflight conference devoted to planned start of the piloted ship "K.E. Tsiolkovsky". Within conference the Russian astronaut Sergei Prokopyev, the commander of MKS-68, told journalists about plans to play soccer onboard the International space station. According to the astronaut, he with Dmitry Aleksandrovich Petelin plan to play soccer together with the astronaut of National administration office on aeronautics and space research Frantsisko Rubio. Sergei Prokopyev otmetil:tak left that our crew, all of us three together play soccer. I think that on ISS we similar will be able to repeat something. I already played soccer in 2018 at station with mine...
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Sergei Prokopyev
Last position: Astronaut-tester (Federal state-financed institution "Institute for scientific research TSPK named after Yu. A. Gagarina")
Oleg Germanovich Artemyev
Last position: Astronaut-tester (Federal state-financed institution "Institute for scientific research TSPK named after Yu. A. Gagarina")
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Alexander Gerst
Main activity:Field expert
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Petelin
Last position: Astronaut-tester (Federal state-financed institution "Institute for scientific research TSPK named after Yu. A. Gagarina")
Tsiolkovsky Konstantin