Former defender of the Russian national football team, Lokomotiv and CSKA Andrei Solomatin in an interview with , he said that in the summer there was an opportunity to bring the Gagarin Cup and several CSKA hockey players to the zone of a special military operation (SVO), but the parties have decided not to risk it.
Earlier, Solomatin told that since July he has been in the SVO zone within Espanyol’s supporters team. The current owner of the Gagarin Cup is CSKA.
– CSKA gave you a minibus, right?
Yes, hockey club. And for that we thank them. The club also helped us buy treatment systems, now we will have our own water, and the guys won’t have to save it. It’s important that our relationship doesn’t end there, from CSKA it’s not like we helped you and then we go to hell. We are in constant contact with the club, and now an action is being prepared which will become a landmark event for Russian sport.
– It turns out that the club is not afraid of sanctions, the management, as we say today, has steel balls?
– RIGHT. Even before joining the detachment, I had the idea to bring the Gagarin Cup to the fighters. CSKA President Igor Vyacheslavovich Esmantovich agreed, expressed a desire to go alone, but for a number of reasons it did not work out, because someone might find out about such a visit and they decided to minimize the risks.
Are you talking specifically about the trophy for winning the KHL playoffs?
– Not only, hockey players could also go there. But that’s okay. The main thing is that the guys, not in words, but in deeds, confirm that they are with us. And such support is very important for the fighters,” Solomatin told .
Solomatin became the champion of Russia as part of CSKA, played with the Russian team in the 2002 World Championship. The 47-year-old footballer finished his career in Torpedo in 2007, after which he worked as a coach in Chertanovo.
Source : MatchTV
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