An American hockey player who received a Russian passport Brennan Menell tries to speak Russian and took a teacher to learn the language, the sports director of Dynamo Moscow told Alexei Sopin .
In July, 26-year-old American defender Menell was granted Russian sports citizenship and lost his KHL Legionnaire status.
— He studies alone with a teacher two or three times a week. Today we discussed with the coaching staff that Andrei Skopintsev, the defenders coach, explains something to him and he answers in Russian. Today, Menell answered me in Russian “excellent” to the question “how are you”. He is already trying to communicate in Russian and understands what is being asked of him. It’s already a big hit,” Sopin said on KHL Season No. 16″ on the “” channel.
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