Officially at CSKA hockey club announced About the appointment of Ilya Vorobyov as head coach. At the meeting of the supervisory board, the leadership of the army club decided not to renew the three-year contract with Sergei Fedorov, which will expire on April 30.
The club noted that Ilya Vorobyov played as a professional player in the Russian and European championships. He started his coaching career in 2011. At club level Metallurg Magnitogorsk and SKA St. He coached St. Petersburg.
Vorobyov won the Gagarin Cup with Metallurg twice: in 2014 as an assistant coach, in 2016 as the team’s head coach and twice reached the final of the tournament. He also worked for the Russian national team. Vorobyov won the Olympic Games as a member of the national team squad in 2018 and won a bronze medal as a head coach at the World Championships in 2019.
“The new coach has extensive coaching experience, as shown by his successful work with the Russian national and Olympic teams, as well as at club level in the Kontinental Hockey League championship. “He also knows the CSKA team very well, as he played against the army club twice in the final series of the Gagarin Cup and won the gold medal in one of these finals.”
In 2018, Ilya Vorobyov was awarded the Order of Friendship.
Rosneft attaches great importance to the development and support of mass and professional sports. The company has owned HC CSKA for 12 years. Continuing the glorious army traditions during this time, the team regained its status as the strongest in the Russian championship. CSKA has won the Gagarin Cup three times in the last five years. As part of the Russian national team, the team’s hockey players returned the Olympic gold to Russia in 2018.