In Russia, it is necessary to continue the tradition of removing from circulation the game numbers of hockey players who have earned it with their career, said the general director of the hockey club “Torpedo” Alexander Kharlamov.
Previously, Kazan “Ak Bars” permanently assigned the number of the 25th match to former team striker Danis Zaripov after his farewell match, which took place on August 9.
– Hockey is already 75 years old and the numbers are not yet finished. It is an honor to continue this tradition. And in football, and in hockey, this is a normal phenomenon. What to do with a star player who wants a certain number under which he has played all his life, and it is already fixed forever? Nothing, each club honors its traditions. A person comes, and the club has its own history, its own legends.
We will have to change the number. In our country, assigning a number to a hockey player does not happen so often. Today there are few of those people left, you can count on your fingers,” Kharlamov said. legal bet .
Zaripov is a three-time world champion with the Russian national team, a five-time Gagarin Cup winner with Ak Bars and Metallurg Magnitogorsk.
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