Vasily Yegorov, Vitaly Dunaytsev,
and Evgeny Tishchenko had claimed their Olympic spots at the 2015 World Championships.
When he bought a ticket past year for a World Cup quarter-final in Sochi,
Russian soccer fan Yevgeny Yegorov guessed, based on form and pedigree,
that he would most likely be a neutral spectator watching Spain play Argentina.