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The head of staff and vice-president of the SKA ice hockey team, Roman Rotenberg, will become its head coach, informs “Sport-Express”. Valery Bragin, who now holds this post, will be transferred to the role of assistant in the coaching staff.
Rotenberg has been holding managerial positions at the club since 2011, and since last season he began to work on the team bench. He even headed the coaching staff of the team at the home match of the Kontinental Hockey League regular season. Then Bragin and his assistants missed the game due to positive tests for coronavirus.
After 44 games of the KHL regular season, SKA is the second in the Western Conference. He scored 62 points and is 1 point behind Dynamo Moscow.
Roman Rotenberg is the son of a billionaire and vice-president of the Russian Judo Federation Boris Rotenberg, who is called “Putin’s friend.” In 2014, US sanctions were imposed on Boris Rotenberg and his brother Arkady in connection with the annexation of Crimea.
Later, sanctions were also imposed on the son of Boris Rotenberg, Roman (June 2016) and the son of Arkady Rotenberg, Igor (April 2018). The reason for the imposition of these sanctions was the close financial ties of Roman and Igor Rotenberg with their sanctioned fathers.
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