The Business team, which was played by SKA head coach Roman Rotenberg and Zenit football club president Alexander Medvedev, became the winner of the Roscongress Hockey Cup, which is traditionally held during the days of the International Economic Forum of Saint Petersburg (SPIEF).
For the first time, the Roscongress Cup was held as a tournament in which four teams participated. In the final, the “Business” team with Medvedev and Rotenberg defeated “Politics” with the score 7:5. Among the winners were also the president and general director of AvtoVAZ Maxim Sokolov, the general director of JSC STLC Evgeny Dietrich.
Governor of the Astrakhan region Igor Babushkin, head of the Republic of Kalmykia Batu Khasikov, governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz, head of the Moscow city sports department Alexei Kondarantsev, two-time Olympic champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, as well as d ex-soccer players Alexander Mostovoy, Roman Shirokov and Yuri Zhirkov played for Politika. .
The third place in the tournament was taken by the team “Champion”, which defeated the government of St. Petersburg (6:3) in the match for bronze.
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Source : MatchTV
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