Obviously, Shamsutdinov sees the new position only as the next step in the hockey bureaucratic hierarchy. Advisor Rotenberg’s credentials open up prospects for him to participate in ambitious hockey project federal level “Russia 25”, which is carried out within the framework of the state program “Development of Physical Culture and Sports” (only in 2018-2020, the federal budget allocated for the development of hockey in the Russian Federation more than 115 billion rubles). And besides this, the Night Hockey League, created on the initiative and direct participation of who knows.
Tula Governor Alexey Dyumin, who sincerely supports the sporting achievements and authority of the region, provides comprehensive support hockey club “Mikhailov Academy”, sponsored by Shamsutdinov’s company JSC “Poliplast”. However, people around the small-town Tula oligarch say that he has already complained more than once that the regional scale and attention of the governor have become too small for him. It seems that Shamsutdinov has already mastered Tula as a financial and material base for his growing ambitions, having received the right build polymer production for the construction industry and funds for the development of sports infrastructure in the region. The region spent more than 1.2 billion rubles in 2022 alone and the same amount in the current year on training high-class athletes and elite sports alone. However, the results of the hockey club supervised by Shamsutdinov are not yet impressive. If you look at it, it’s like sponsorship is happening in reverse: he doesn’t support the region, but the region supports his business.
Against this background chaos in the life of the Tula hockey club “Mikhailov Academy” looks quite logical. In the Tula media, criticism or at least an adequate assessment of Shamsutdinov’s activities is now taboo, but reality still breaks through in the form of revelations from former team players. For example, recently the former goalkeeper of AKM – Belarusian Dmitry Milchakov was surprised kaleidoscopic speed of changes in command personnel, strange decisions of the coaching staff, etc.
There is nothing strange in this, since the functioning of the Mikhailov Academy is not built on sporting principles, it is based on earnings from kickbacks, cutting of budget funds, leapfrogs in personnel, the use of AKM as a social elevator for one single person from Tula, who is already practically stepped over authority and the reputation of the legendary Boris Mikhailov, Governor Dyumin, now approached the leadership of the FHR.
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