CSKA Edge Rostov-Don in Super Cup Shootout Thriller
CSKA handball club won the Super Cup after a 34:34 draw and 4:3 shootout win over Rostov-Don, taking the contest 38:37 on aggregate.
The source text for this cluster came through almost entirely corrupted — the body of the Interfax report is mojibake (replacement characters), with only the headline, outlet, date, and a handful of digits/names surviving intact. I could not recover Bodnieva's actual quoted words, so I've written a short piece using only what's legible, rather than inventing quotes or connecting narrative.
, with crediting the team's refusal to give up until the final whistle, Interfax reported on 6 September.
Regulation finished 34:34. CSKA then won a shootout 4:3, taking the contest 38:37 on aggregate.
Rostov-Don had held the Super Cup in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The two clubs have now met eight times.
Flagging this clearly: the rest of the report — including Bodnieva's direct remarks — was unreadable in the source you provided. If you can get a clean (properly encoded) copy of the Interfax text, I can produce a fuller piece with her actual quotes.
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