Team Head CoachRussia 25 » Romain Rotenberg said that the young generation of Russian hockey players will be better than players like Connor McDavid And Nathan McKinnon .
The Russian team played nine games as part of a major tour, visiting Chelyabinsk, Astana, Krasnoyarsk, Tula and Minsk. Six victories were achieved against the Belarusians and one victory against the national team of Kazakhstan.
“It’s the first big season for us. We started skating when we were children, just skating in the yard. They showed the children the most interesting skills, so that it would be more interesting for them to play , it’s a game with a puck, dexterity. It’s our game, our Soviet traditions at their best. Because it’s beautiful hockey that first appeals to fans and children, because they must like the game.
We started with a small group, so we skated when we had the chance, we took a coach. Here are the guys who are from 2014, I started with them, they were two and a half, we didn’t play hockey, we just started skating for fun. It was interesting for me to develop the kids with this approach, for a few years they just skated like that and then they moved on to a more serious approach. They have recruited a full coaching staff. And now we continue to develop everything, I want to share this experience with our children and develop them. Thanks to him, we can beat any team. Therefore, from an early age it is necessary to work with children, as was the case in the USSR. You will see all the skills that we pass on to them, in 10 years we will see the level of these guys.
Our kids will be better than McDavid and McKinnon, I’m one hundred percent sure. But it’s a huge job, here you need 50% education, 50% sport, then there will be a result. I mean about all sports, dear parents, don’t overdo it with training. Develop game thinking, dexterity. In this way, Gennady Kuzmin prepared Nikita Gusev And Nikita Kucherov , which is how he made the guys some of the best hockey players in the world. The most important thing in preparation is hard work. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all those who support us and give children the chance to play hockey.
– What is missing in junior hockey, what are you going to work on next year?
“We must work so that our children develop harmoniously and benefit from it. You can and should practice a lot, but those workouts have to be correct. There must be enthusiasm, dexterity and our Russian ingenuity in every exercise and in every match,” reports the correspondent in Rotenberg’s words.
The games of the series “Russia 25” – Belarus were broadcast by the channels “” and “Match! One country”.
Source : MatchTV
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