The head coach S.K.A. Romain Rotenberg congratulated the St. Petersburg football club “Zenith with the 98-year-old, noting that hockey players also build a champion team step by step.
Zenit celebrated its 98th birthday on Thursday. According to the results of the current RPL season, the Bleu-Blanc-Bleu won the fifth and tenth consecutive national title in history.
– I am happy to congratulate our friends from Zenit on the club’s 98th anniversary! “Blue-white-blue” has long been one of the symbols of Leningrad and St. Petersburg. In 1944, a few months after the city was liberated from the fascist blockade, Zenit players won the first trophy in their history – the USSR Cup. In the 1950s and 1960s, they regularly gathered 100,000 fans at the Kirov Stadium.
In 1984 they won gold in the USSR championship – this is an important event for Leningrad. In 1999, hundreds of thousands of city dwellers met Zenit, who won the Russian Cup, and nine years later, the team that won the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup staged the same meeting fantastic.
In recent history, Zenit is going from victory to victory – this year’s championship was the fifth in a row and the tenth overall. For this series of successes, we have to thank PJSC Gazprom and personally Alexey Borisovich Miller. Their financial and organizational support is important for all sports in St. Petersburg.
SKA look up to their Zenit friends and also build a champion team step by step. Our trophy room already has two Gagarin Cups, three Continental Cups, the Kharlamov Cup, but I’m sure all the great successes for us and for Zenit are yet to come! Together we are writing the history of sport in St. Petersburg, – Rotenberg wrote in the Telegram channel .
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