The Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) unsuccessfully abandoned the idea of forming a second Russian national team in December, made up of young players, says the coach Vladimir Krikunov .
In the fall, the FHR announced that in addition to the main Russian team led by Alexei Zhamnov, the Russia 25 team for promising young players, which was to be led by Boris Rotenberg, would also participate in international tournaments. But then this idea was abandoned.
“It’s a shame that this team doesn’t exist yet,” Krikunov told . – There would be a good battle between the two Russian teams. After all, this practice was at tournaments in the USSR, in the late 60s. It was in such a team that 20-year-old Valery Kharlamov made his debut at the national team level in 1968. This year- there the Czechs did not come to us, and the second team played in their place. After this tournament, Anatoly Tarasov recognized a great player in Kharlamov and began to take him to the world championships.
– Have you decided not to create a second team now because of the KHL championship too full of games? Will there be such an order in the future?
– Of course, now all the players are exhausted. And not a little, but very well. But I think that the idea of a second Russian team can be taken up again in May during a tournament in which our teams can participate.
In 1968, at the tournament for the Izvestia newspaper prize, the Mikhailov-Petrov-Kharlamov liaison debuted in the second national team of the USSR, consisting mainly of young and promising players. Immediately after the end of the competition, the young players were invited to the main national team of the USSR, in which they later became the legendary shock trio.
Source : MatchTV
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