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The club Atlético Monarcas Morelia, the Monarchs of Morelia, also known simply as "Los Monarcas", are a Mexican First Division football league team. On the first free day for the chess players in Morelia the club invited Veselin Topalov for a PR event that involved the FIDE world champion playing a garden chess game against the goalkeeper of the club, Moises Muñoz, who was assisted by his team mates. After that Topalov had to shoot three penalties at the goalie. The result was hardly surprising, as we shall presently see.
The Estadio José María Morelos y Pavón stadium, owned
by the TV station TV Azteca.
The inside of the giant stadium
The entire Monarchs team – with a chess player in the middle
The team:
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The President of the club is Álvaro Ramiro Dávila Alanís.
There he is, the chess champion in the middle of the football stars
Now comes the chess, with the team mascot helping Topalov
Veselin keeps winning piece after piece, in spite of the combined efforts
of the team
Some of the players even have to help him hang on to the booty. Topalov
won.
After that Veselin Topalov, chess champion...
...shows his skills in a completely different area
... fútbol, Mexican style.
And is rewarded with a special club shirt.
Three "kings": the football mascot, Topalov and the president of the
municipality of Morelia, Salvador López Ordunia
Tolalov in interview
The Monarchas goalkeeper Moises Muñoz
Topalov's manager Silvio Danailov, with Juan Fernández, Mayor of
Linares
After the terrible loss to Topalov in chess the Mexican fútbol club sought revenge on the green turf. Veselin was asked to try his hand (leg?) at penalty shots. He got to make tree attempts – all were held or went wide. We are pleased to inform you that Topalov plans to stick with chess. You can watch it all unfold in the video given below
