Lukashenka beaten by Gazprom (Photo)

A friendly match dedicated to 90th anniversary of Anatoly Tarasov finished in victory of “Gazprom-Export” team with the score 9:5.

The match between Gazprom Export and all-star hockey team took place on the hockey pitch. It gathered Alexander Medvedev, a president of the Kontinental Hockey League, the trade union leader Andrei Kovalenko (yes, they played in one team), Lev Berdichevsky, Valery Kamensky (together with others they played for Gazpromexport team) against Igor Larionov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov, Timo Blomqvist, Mats Naslund, Jari Kurri, Esa Tikkanen, Bengt Gustafsson and many others.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka played for the all-star hockey team. He had a personal checkroom. According to Sports.ru, Lukashenka is simply useless in game without puck: he does not take away puck, he just give an impression of struggle. But he leaves himself open carefully, and having received a pass, he transforms: he can make a good throw and fire a pass. He is fenced from the team, like Zinovyev in Kazan, though Zinovyev didn’t have his own checkroom in Ak Bars.

“Lukashenka’s guards are good-humoured. We with Vladimir Yurzinov, trainer of these stars, would march slowly along the corridor, speaking about Yurzinov’s trainer work, and Lukashenka would enter the pitch behind us. And his bodyguard would ask rather shyly: “I am sorry, could I ask you to move aside a little or go quicker?” That means, he gives you a choice, which is rather strange for a bodyguard,” Sports.ru journalist Alexander Lyutikov wrote.