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On 28th May 2016 the fifth International children’s tournament EuroChem 2016 ended with the match between the teams “Victoria” and “Almaty”

The host of the tournament - hockey club “Victoria” became the cup winner in the last seconds of the match when it snatched victory from the club “Almaty”, Kazakhstan with the score 4:3.

The tournament started on May 25th and lasted 4 days. During five years of its history, the tournament 2016 became the most respectable. 12 hockey teams from Russia, Lithuania , Germany, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Finland and Belgium gathered in Novomoskovsk.

At the closing ceremony the acting governor of Tula region Alexei Dyumin, the general director of Mineral and Chemical company “EuroChem” Dmitry Strezhnev and the team of Russian hockey stars greeted the participants. Alexei Dyumin pointed out that the emotions that everyone had at the tournament were equal to the emotions at the World hockey championship, which had taken place in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg recently. “Emotions were overflowing us, we had the same show as adults had! I am very happy for the boys, especially for the team from Novomoskovsk, which has won today. You have seen the atmosphere, the intensity of emotions, everything was like in real hockey, like in adulthood.

The general director of MCC “EuroChem” Dmitry Strezhnev thanked the legends of Russian hockey for coming to support young players and promised that next year the championship would become bigger and gather more participants, so the fans will see serious fight and spectacular show of international tournament.

The tournament is one of the main social projects of MCC “EuroChem”. Its peculiarities are the age of children – they have to be not older than twelve, and also the small provincial towns where they come from and where “EuroChem” together with the Ministry of Sport of Russian Federation realizes the development program of children’s sport.