Hockey enthusiasm

• 11.01.2010, 16:15

On January 7 when Lukashenka’s hockey cup tournament was held, 60,000 of “obligatory” invitation cards were offered for 15,000 seats of sports complex Minsk Arena.

“Our friend works in the Main Music Lyceum where children of persons with names we shouldn’t mention study. 5 days ago the entire teachers’ staff received a letter of order that they should attend the final match of the President’s cup for hockey,” writes a well-known playwright, director of the Belarus Free Theatre Mikalai Khalezin in his blog kilgor-trautt .

It is absurd to speak about this tournament seriously, the blogger continues, as this event for overweight and pregnant, were elderly people without kith or kin are kicking goalwards a piece of pressed rubber with the help of crooked wooden sticks, but with little success. When Svetlana (let us call her so) was frightened by sanctions and decided to attend the final game of the amazing show, her impulse was smothered in fact on the doorstep of the Ice Palace. The documents given to teachers turned out to be worthless pieces of paper, which do not guarantee seats in the place of the battle of the ice teams. 60,000 of “obligatory” invitation cards had been given, while there were only 15,000 seats on the palace. Absence from the match could follow in discharge of an employee of this or that agency.

“In a few minutes after I left, the sportscaster of the hockey game announced that this time the final game of the President’s Cup caused a boom. I do not know why, but I believed him for some reason,” kilgor-trautt noted.