Twelve
Olympic hockey champions took part in a gala match between the Roscongress
Forum Team and Hockey Legends, held in Moscow.
The
Legends team included two-time Olympic champion Vladimir Lutchenko, the winners
of the Olympic Games Ilya Byakin, Vasili Pervukhin, Sergei Babinov, Viktor
Shalimov, Sergei Shepelev, Igor Boldin, Vitali Prokhorov, Evgeny Davydov, and
Sergei Petrenko. Innsbruck 1976 champion Yuri Lyapkin and two-time Olympic
winner Alexander Yakushev led the team.
CEO
of the Novotrans Group Konstantin Goncharov was the captain of the Roscongress
Forum Team. Fesco President Alexander Isurin, Roteks President Evgeny Romaskevich,
RGSU Rector Natalia Pochinok took the ice. General Director of Ust-Luga
Multipurpose Trade Terminal Alexey Zharkov netted a puck passed from the World
Championship medallist Alexander Guskov. The distinguished hockey players
Mikhail Anisin and Yuri Butsayev, who reinforced the Roscongress team, scored
two and one goals respectively, ensuring the team’s victory at 4:3.
«It
was the debut gala hockey match in Moscow as part of the all-year Roscongress
Sport Club project, and the first steps together with the Hockey Legends team,
which demonstrated the high-class play. Roscongress, Novotrans, and the Legends
agreed to establish a tradition of playing hockey galas in Moscow,» said Georgy
Bryusov, Deputy CEO, Head of Sporting, Entertainment and Special Programmes,
Roscongress Foundation.
