THE MOST POPULAR SPORT IN RUSSA

Chaikin Egor

• Hockey is the most popular sport in Russia. Russian people have played hockey for a long time.

• In the first hockey championship of the USSR in 1946 played only 4 teams

Today, there are thousands of hockey clubs, and the professional ones, such asAvangard, Dinamo, Ak Bars and Traktor

are famous throughout the country

• Such players, as Alex Ovechkin Yevgeny Malkin Pavel DatsukAlexandr Radulov

have become role models for many young boys in our country.

People have their favorite clubs and players. Many Russian children have hockey lessons at school, and a lot of boys want to become as famous as their idols.

I also play hockey (I am a striker), and I

think it is the best sport in the world.