Mikhail Hrabouski Father: My son could become Russin citizen

Forward of the Belarusian hockey team and the NHL team New York Islanders, Mikhail Hrabouski could become a citizen of Russia. This was said by his father Yury in the program Sport-kadr on the TV channel Belarus 5.

According to him, the athlete had the chance to do it. "But it is an absolutely stupid move. We love the place, love the motherland. The issue of nationality change is sometimes decide not by the young players but their parents. I would, for example, want my son to become an Olympic champion. I am a happy man, because I still believe in the possibility of this. And many are unhappy, they do not believe in it and are trying to become Russians, Canadians, Czechs," Pressball reports Yury Hrabouski as sayinga.