The head of the KHL trade union, Andrey Kovalenko, hit the referee Vladislav Kiselyov during the veterans' match. The referee called the police

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The incident occurred at the Challenge Cup among veterans, which took place in Odintsovo near Moscow. Kovalenko took part in the match as a player and hit the referee after he did not like one of Kiselev's decisions. The blow fell on the jaw, and although Kiselev was able to continue the match, after the game he was sent to the hospital. Doctors diagnosed him with a concussion.

"Unforeseen situation. The player didn't hold back. In a fit of passion, he hit me with a stick. Diagnosed with a concussion. Relaxing. It happened during the match, he was furious. In response to my request to go to the bench, to change, he pulled me behind my back. He drove away all the judges and players, drove up and delivered a strong blow to the chin. I finished the match, then came to the locker room and I felt bad. After the game, I was examined and hospitalized. Yes, I thought that such a player who has played hockey for so many years and is responsible for the union should set an example for the players, for the fans. Other people tried to intercede, to separate. He didn’t apologize to me, ”Kiselev told Championship.com.

Also, Kiselev, who serves the matches of veterans and cooperates with the KHL as an inspector, said that he contacted the police after the incident. The judge did not stay in the hospital and intends to continue treatment at the place of residence in Ufa.

Kovalenko himself said that he hit the judge not with a stick, but with his fist. »

It so happened that in the heat of my emotions I did not agree with some of the judges' decisions. There was a small conflict, which outgrew ... I do not deny that I hit the judge with my hand. But not as they write that I beat him with a club. Hit once. From the left hand. Moreover, I am right-handed, but hit with the left. And the referee judged this match to the end, all this is noted in the protocol. Once again I emphasize: I regret that I could not restrain myself. Emotions overflowed the mind, as is usually the case in hockey. Especially in veteran hockey, where, believe me, there are no less emotions than in the KHL. It’s a pity that after the game a certain concert began, although such excesses occur constantly in the matches of veterans, ”the head of the KHL players’ union told Championship.com.

The first president of the KHL, Alexander Medvedev, said that Kovalenko repents of what happened. “In the match for third place, Kovalenko will not play, because he was not allowed to this game. The protocol recorded that there was no hit with a club. We will finally deal with this today, then we can say something. He himself is very remorseful,” Medvedev told the agency.

The football player of the amateur Mexican club "Canarios" Ruben Rivera Vazquez killed the referee. The incident occurred on November 6 - this is how the player reacted to the second yellow card.

The referee did not have time to get a red card to remove the player from the field, as he ran up and hit him in the face with his fist.

The judge fell to the ground and stopped breathing, the ambulance arriving could not save his life. The player fled the stadium and went on the run, the police have already put him on the wanted list.

Seemingly safe work as a referee at football matches is often much more dangerous than the work of the police, whose activities involve risk from the very beginning.

So, in July 2013, one of the most shocking and brutal incidents related to football took place in Brazil. In the city of Pia in the Brazilian state of Maranhao, a match between two amateur teams ended with the execution of the referee of that match.

During the game, 20-year-old referee Otavio Giordao da Silva was approached by a 30-year-old player named Josemir Santos Abreu and began to insult the young man with obscene words, and then attacked him with fists and kicked him.

However, the incident did not end there, and after the attack, the young referee suddenly took out a knife from his pocket and hit the angry football player in the chest.

The doctor on duty at that meeting called an ambulance, but the doctors were powerless: the wounded player died on the way to the hospital.

In the meantime, three friends of the murdered Abreu twisted and tied da Silva, after which they threw him to the ground and began to beat him. Not only arms and legs were used, but also stones. The three attackers were joined by other team players and relatives of the deceased.

Having beaten the judge to death, the killers decided that this was not enough. One of them suggested dismembering the young man into four parts. After the criminals had accomplished their plan, they placed a pole right in the center of the field, on which was the head of the murdered.

The police who arrived at the scene of the crime managed to capture only one of the many murderers, the other participants in the execution went on the run.

It is also shocking that the massacre was filmed on the mobile phone of one of the spectators who were present at the match.

Just two months before this egregious incident, another incident occurred involving a football player and the chief referee. In the United States, during a match of youth football teams, a 17-year-old goalkeeper of one of them, dissatisfied with the fact that he was shown a yellow card, attacked the referee, inflicting several strong blows to the face.

46-year-old Ricardo Portillo was taken to the hospital with cerebral edema, where he died without regaining consciousness. And the attacking 17-year-old football player received a real term for manslaughter.

In Russia, there have also been cases of attacks on arbitrators. However, this does not happen at the highest level, but, as a rule, in the lower football divisions or in amateur competitions.

On July 17, 2008, one such incident occurred during the Sakhalin championship match between Portovik Kholmsk and the Nogliki football club.

Nogliki captain Yuriy Kimaikin was indignant that the referee Pavel Barsky counted the goal scored, in his opinion, from an offside position, and began to defend his position.

The judge listened to Kimaikin's obscene arguments and decided to show him the card. Before the referee had time to reach for his pocket with multi-colored cardboard boxes, the angry player used his fists and knocked out Barsky with the first blow.

The violator of the order was immediately taken away from the field by law enforcement officers, and the referee, when he came to his senses, nevertheless took advantage of the card and removed Kimaykin from the field. For the attack on the referee, Kimaykin was banned from football for life.

Of the recent cases, it is also worth noting the episode that happened this year in the Turkish championship during the Trabzonspor match, which hosted Fenerbahce at home.

At the end of the meeting, the hosts lost with a score of 0:4. In stoppage time of the second half, a fan of the hosts, dissatisfied with the refereeing of the meeting, ran onto the field and delivered several punches and kicks to the referee Volkan Bayarslan.

After that, riots broke out on the field and in the stands, and the match was interrupted.

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During the match of veterans, the head of the KHL trade union, Andrei Kovalenko, wrote a statement to the police. The referee said that he was hit on the head with a club. Kovalenko himself denies this, according to him, it happened by accident - by hand. But the referee was diagnosed with a concussion.

The video shows veterans of Russian sports on ice. But the game is stopped: the legionnaires in blue are arguing about something with the judges. Their communication quickly turns into a fistfight. The referee falls and rolls away.

A well-known hockey player Andrei Kovalenko, who was nicknamed the Russian Tank in the USA, turned out to be a laconic and rather impulsive athlete. The 48-year-old athlete has been on the ice for a long time as part of a veteran team. An unpleasant incident occurred at the Odintsovo Ice Arena during a tournament match called the Challenge Cup. Kovalenko's team fought for passage to the semi-finals.

"Indeed, I regret that I could not restrain myself. I am to blame for the fact that I hit the judge, did not restrain my emotions. I am to blame for this and I am ready to answer and be punished. And this was preceded by the refereeing itself, with which many did not agree. Dissatisfied not only our team and our players, but also the opposing team,” says hockey player, head of the KHL trade union Andrei Kovalenko.

Referee Vladislav Kiselev at the tournament judged three games of the team with the participation of Andrey Kovalenko. And every match there were verbal skirmishes between the players and the referee. The situation reached a boiling point by the end of the third match, when the Russian tank received another penalty and removal.

“Against me, as I believe, a force was used. I waved it off, they gave me two minutes. When he said why the removal was not mutual, he gave me 10 minutes. I drove up to him to figure it out, for which 10 minutes, he told me to the end. After these words, he waved his hand: to the end, get out of here. I could not restrain myself, "says Kovalenko.

The referee could not get up for several minutes after the blow. But until the end of the match was able to finalize. After a colleague, the referee called an ambulance and the police. Vladislav Kiselev wrote a statement, where he indicated that the doctors stated that he had a suspicion of a concussion.

“Kovalenko feigned all the time, fell, showed that he was being caught, beaten, offended. When he fell for the last time, the player who fought him was driving past, and Kovalenko would hit him on the legs! I gave him two minutes for hitting with a club. His team played in the majority. Andrey started swearing at me, I gave him 10 minutes for this, but he continued his actions. I told him: "Go to the locker room, you won't play anymore." After that, he drove up and hit with a stick on the back. I didn't even see that he was coming from behind. I stayed on my feet, went the other way. Kovalenko was held by the judges and the players so that he would not drive up to me. He escaped, drove up to me. I looked into his face, eyes were simply insane. I decided to talk to him, but then a blow followed. I don’t remember further. They say he lay on the ice for about two minutes, "said judge Vladislav Kiselev.

The conflict will now be dealt with not only by the police, but also by sports officials. Andrey Kovalenko has been holding the position of the head of the KHL trade union for several years.

“Should be punished according to the rules of this league. It should be some kind of indefinite suspension from veteran matches. Veterans don’t just play, they get money. It will really be a financial punishment, and it’s important for a veteran to have practice. Kovalenko can lose all this. And he should lose. And he should be punished as a hockey player. But I don’t think that this should directly affect how he works as the head of the trade union, because there are many questions about how a KHL official can behave like this, "the expert shared his opinion in hockey, columnist for "Soviet Sport" Pavel Lysenko.

Andriy Kovalenko has already been suspended indefinitely from participation in the Challenge Cup tournament. Most likely, the organizers will write him a fine for a fight with the referee.

Source: Sport-Express

WHAT HAPPENED?

An unpleasant incident occurred in the veterans tournament, held in Odintsovo near Moscow. The famous Russian forward, "Russian Tank" Andrey Kovalenko, who heads the union of KHL players, was dissatisfied with the referee's decision and hit referee Vladislav Kiselev in the face. After the conflict, the referee lay on the ice for a long time, and at the end of the game he went to the hospital.

CIRCUMSTANCES

The Rostec United Corporate Hockey League holds many hockey tournaments. One of the main ones is the Challenge Cup. This is an annual competition, which is not the first season. Its most important feature is that professionals can be declared for amateur teams. The notorious Gazprom Export team, whose captain is the first president of the KHL, Alexander Medvedev, takes part in the six-team tournament. In addition to Kovalenko, it includes players such as Alexei Yashin, Igor Varitsky, Sergei Gomolyako, Alexander Korolyuk, Ravil Yakubov, Alexander Kharitonov, Viktor Gordiyuk and many others.

And, for example, for the Sportima team, whose general manager, CSKA President Igor Esmantovich, is Ilya Bryzgalov, Alexei Troshchinsky, Andrey Skopintsev, Sergey Zolotov, Albert Leshchev and Andrey Nikolishin. There are enough stars and famous players of past years in other teams.

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The group stage went off without a hitch. In the playoffs, Gazprom Export met with the Tigers team. It also includes many interesting people, in particular, Andrey Razin and even the former head of the HC MVD and OHC Dynamo Mikhail Tyurkin.

The game was played with an age limit of 45+, according to veteran rules. That is, without power struggle and clicks.

JUDGING

According to eyewitnesses, the Gazprom Export team was extremely dissatisfied with the refereeing of referee Kiselev, who served the match in an extremely biased manner. According to the participants of the match, he openly strangled Gazprom Export so that they would not reach the final.

Why then did the organizers even need to invite this team? Or could the judge have his own score? Vladislav Kiselev has officiated KHL matches for eight seasons. But, before reaching the critical age of the judge - 50 years old, he unexpectedly ended his career before the season before last, along with Vyacheslav Bulanov and Anatoly Zakharov. Now he works as an inspector of KHL, VHL and MHL matches, and also judges amateurs.

According to Kovalenko, the judge missed violations. Pushing, poking with a stick - all this is not included in the concept of "veteran hockey". And in the third period of the match there was an episode involving the head of the KHL trade union. One of the opponents knocked him down at the entrance to the zone, Kovalenko waved his club away, for which he received a two-minute penalty - but his offender went unpunished.

After that, the famous hockey player lost his temper and started arguing with Kiselev. The judge is also known for his intransigent nature, and he expressed his dissatisfaction in response. Then a sad incident occurred: Kovalenko began to beat the referee, the blow fell in a slip, but the referee fell on the ice and could not get up for a long time. However, he was able to finalize the game to the end.

AFTER THE FIGHT

After the match, Kiselev went to the hospital with a suspected concussion and wrote a statement to the police. The police also took away Kovalenko himself from the match - Alexander Medvedev tried to intercede for the latter, trying to neutralize the conflict.

It is worth recognizing that the actions of the head of the KHL trade union in this situation cannot be justified by anything. Judges, whether they are right or not, cannot be beaten - hockey should not turn into an appendage of fighting disciplines. You always need to control yourself, especially for a major sports functionary, who is obliged to set an example for others by his behavior.

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"I hit him, but not with a club"

The head of the KHL union attacked the referee during the match

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The head of the KHL trade union and the player of the Gazprom Export team, Andrey Kovalenko, hit the referee during the Challenge Cup match among veterans in Odintsovo on March 9. Judge Vladislav Kiselyov was taken away in an ambulance after a skirmish with a hockey player. Prior to the incident, Kovalenko was sent off for two minutes for hitting with a stick. When the penalty time was over, he jumped onto the ice, attacked the referee, and then was removed from the site, receiving a 50-minute disciplinary penalty, writes "Championship".

“It so happened that in the heat of my emotions I did not agree with some of the referee's decisions. There was a small conflict, which outgrew ... I do not deny that I hit the judge with my hand. But not as they write on the Internet that I beat him with a stick. Hit once. And the referee judged this match to the end, all this is noted in the protocol, ”Kovalenko explained. In his opinion, the story "simply inflated." Judge Vladislav Kiselev said that the hockey player did not apologize for his behavior.