Midfielder “SKA-Khabarovsk » Youri Bavin believes that the level of competition in football is much higher than in hockey, since it is spread almost everywhere in the world.
— I don’t want to say anything bad about hockey, but it’s not a very competitive sport. [как футбол]. In the sense that fewer countries know what hockey is. Our hockey players have won all kinds of tournaments. Footballers cannot boast of this, but a person from any small country – Gabon or the Vatican – can play football.
Our hockey players are great, handsome. And let them have even more contracts. That’s all I wish for them. It makes no sense to compare that, I think,” Bavin said in an interview with the SKA-Khabarovsk YouTube channel.
Bavin is 29 years old, he started his career at CSKA Moscow, then played for the Portuguese club Unian Leiria, Zenit St. Petersburg, Ural Yekaterinburg, Tambov, Volgograd Rotor.
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