Russian players from the Kazakhstan championship will be naturalized for the sake of the national team before the 2025 World Cup – Hockey

Hockey Federation of Uzbekistan is engaged in the process of naturalization of seven or eight Russian hockey club players “Humo” for their participation in World Championship 2025 in the fourth division, Sports.kz reports with reference to Shaiba.kz.

Vice-President of the Federation Bakhodir Gafurov spoke about this.

— Our club “Humo” is the backbone of the national team, we have launched the process of naturalization of about seven or eight Russian players and in the future we plan to continue this process. This is necessary so that in 2025 they will be able to compete for our national team. A game between Uzbekistan national teams and Russian national teams? I think it will be a disparate level, so most likely there is no such probability. Maybe it will be matches…