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Slovak hockey players react to the cancellation of the Junior World Championships, their statements were brought by the website hockeyslovakia.sk
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Juraj Slafkovský, forward SR: “The situation has gone too far, this step was probably necessary. It could have been changed somewhere in the beginning, but it’s the organizer’s business and I won’t change it. We are an unreal game, I have probably never met such a group of people in any tournament. I am very happy to be part of the team.
Well and the bubble… It was so special when people can walk among us it’s interesting. But like I said, I won’t change it, it’s the organizer’s business. We all see how it turned out. ”
About the years 2002, which can no longer go to the tournament for a year.
“We had an unreal goalkeeper, Slovakia has not had such a goalkeeper for some time. Samo Kňažko, Martin Chromiak, all excellent years of 2002, which will definitely make it to the NHL one day. It is a great pity that they did not allow us to finish the tournament. I think we would have gone a long way, even if the two results were not what we imagined. But against Russia today, everyone was ready to do everything we could to win.
I’m unhappy and I will be for a while, but I won’t change it. I just have to work on it and hope that there will be another opportunity to play at the World Cup with a similarly good team. ”
Simon Nemec, defender of the Slovak Republic: “I accepted it very hard, as did each of the players or the implementation team. We were very ambitious. The first matches showed that we could shuffle the cards, but we were not allowed to do so.
You can’t even call it a bubble. Everyone could do whatever they wanted. It is not possible for people to go between us and have a wedding there. It was not done by the organizers. We did everything we could to keep it and so far we have not been positive.
Poor guys of the year 2002, the last World Youth Championships and it will turn out so bad.
The team had a high level on the ice and beyond. We were a very good party and we would achieve something. ”
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Šimon Latkóczy, goalkeeper of the Slovak Republic (year 2002): “I am very surprised by this decision. I have all kinds of emotions in me, I don’t know if it’s disappointment, anger… I don’t understand how it could have happened. This is how to organize one of the most popular and largest tournaments. This goes after the organizers. I’m just grateful to have been here at least these few days. The Slovak Association arranged everything fantastically, I really enjoyed it, I’m sorry all the more.
I believed in this team like no other. In each match we were able to torment the opponent, I believed that we would defeat the Russians and then fight for medals. I didn’t want to say it before, but I believed it. The medal fights my goal. I really don’t understand, I don’t know what else to say.
It was supposed to be a tournament that would end the youth. When it ends like this, no one wants it. I am very disappointed that this is how it is organized here. However, COVID was also last year and they knew how to solve it and it was even more serious. The organizers simply failed this year. ”
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