Chairman of the Metropolitan Sports Department of St. Petersburg, Priest Bogdan Polevoy, told that hockey S.K.A. and footballZenith carry moral and family values for the inhabitants of the city.
The priest attended the presentation of the SKA hockey team for the 2023/24 KHL season on Sunday, at the national sports club Leninskoye, near Saint Petersburg. Members of the St. Petersburg club also received bronze medals last season.
— St. Petersburg is a sports city, and sports success, like sports life, directly affects the mood and way of thinking of citizens. The victories of SKA, Zenit in football and basketball, as well as the women’s football team add to the positive. SKA and Zenit are the sports leaders of our city, they carry a certain burden, especially moral and family values. We know how much people love to attend hockey games, what a wonderful atmosphere is created there.
A large number of players are examples for ordinary people. We actively cooperate with the management of the SKA, a father confessor works with the club. Many hockey players work on improving their personality rather than maintaining public relations. The team team is amazing, they are all awesome. Correct values are professed and declared in SKA.
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– Sergei Bogdanovitch is a model for everyone, he does not hesitate to openly express his religious position. He is our great friend and comrade, on whom we can count, who never refuses a good deed, a social or charitable match.
And the football club always participates in all social and charitable events organized, including by our diocese of St. Petersburg, under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church. Anatoly Tymoshchuk is a great friend of ours and many other former footballers also support us. None of the players have ever refused our requests,” Polevoy told .
Source : MatchTV
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