Down-the-line.com/Hockey. Russian goalkeeper Konstantin Volkov, whose rights belong to Dynamo Moscow, has spoken of the difficulties he encountered in February in Finland. He played for the Finnish “Essejat”.

“What is unpleasant is that I had to seal the flag. I was sitting in the locker room, they approached me and said that the top league had said to remove the flag in order to avoid provocations and attacks.

And I had two on my helmet – Finnish and Russian. Why should I seal my flag and keep yours? Let’s wrap the two then. I drew them for friendship, not for enmity.

As for the personal negativity towards me, either I didn’t understand or it didn’t happen. No one caught me on the street”, quotes Volkov sports.ru.