Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - On Monday, 17 February, the Match of Legends will be held in the Humo Arena Palace, the Friends of Uzbekistan team will face the team of the Uzbekistan Hockey Federation.

In addition to Valery Kamensky, Alexei Jamnov and Vitaly Prokhorov, the Olympic Champion, three-time world and European champion, Canadian Cup winner Sergey Shepelev, two-time Olympic champion, multiple world, European and Soviet Union champion Alexei Kasatonov, member of the Triple Golden Club Vladimir Malakhov will play for Friends of Uzbekistan. The team’s coach is two-time Olympic champion, multiple champion of the world, Europe and the Soviet Union, the famous Yak-15 Alexander Yakushev. The captain of the team is Army General, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev.

In addition to Shukur Karimov, the team of the Uzbekistan Hockey Federation will be played by another former hockey player of the Tashkent Binokor, and now director of the FHU competition Vladimir Pokladkin, general manager of the Humo hockey club, participant of nine world championships in the national team of Latvia Normunds Seijs, Humo coaches »Boris Tortunov and Oleg Mikulchik and others.

“This match is primarily aimed at popularizing hockey in Uzbekistan, like most of what the Hockey Federation does at this stage,” said Fakhu First Vice President Bakhodyr Gafurov. - Great hockey players come to our country who have earned world fame with their game. Is this not the most attractive sign for a fan? But, of course, we have ideas in the script, or chips, as is now customary to say. For example, during the break of the meeting there will be a match of young hockey players, pupils of schools in Uzbekistan, who are already in full swing. Hockey is popularized not for the sake of the process itself, but for the sake of the result, these young hockey players are our first shoots, the first shoots. Our young Federation already has something to brag about, and this motivates us to work and roll up our sleeves further. And, of course, the audience will plunge into the great atmosphere of hockey matches, which they have already got used to, happily coming to our magnificent arena for the Humo games in the VHL. Presenters, competitions, dances - no one will remain indifferent.