Two-time Olympic hockey champion Alexander Kozhevnikov said his coach at Sweden’s AIK was a nationalist. Kozhevnikov’s words are quoted as follows: “Sports Express”.
“He moved from Krylia to Swedish AIK in 1989. The team was led by a local coach who said openly: “You won’t play for me. I hate Russians! Well, a nationalist! “In his conversations with me, he constantly remembered the Battle of Poltava…” said Kozhevnikov.
Kozhevnikov won gold medals with the USSR national team in two Olympics, in 1984 and 1988. In 1982, as a member of the Soviet national team, he won gold medals at the World Championships and the national European championships in Finland.
In the USSR championship, Kozhevnikov played 525 matches and scored 243 goals, of which he scored 43 in the 1981/82 championship.
Previously Kozhevnikov said About memory problems after coronavirus.