Hockey World Championship 2025: Latvian Freibergs has extra motivation against Slovakia

Stockholm. The hockey chronicle of this country is in many ways similar to the Slovak one and the mutual matches of both teams at the World Championships have been gradual in recent years.

Even in Stockholm at MS in hockey 2025 He will be a lot on Sunday. Slovaks they get up against Latvia.

Meanwhile, the Latvians have overcame the French and Slovenes in the tournament and have to score against the Slovaks. They can rely on the great support of fans, which are thousands in Sweden.

After a match against Finland, Ralfs Freibergs in a mixzone revealed that he would have extra motivation. He knows that there are also players who work or have worked in KHL, Russia.

« We, Latvians, are still for Ukraine. I know the opinion of the Slovaks, their ministers, what their politics is. This is also a bit of motivation for us. Diary n.

When the Russian troops attacked Ukraine three years ago, Freibergs played for Dinamo Riga, who in response to the invasion came out of KHL. Dinama players were looking for a new place, Freibergs went to Germany.

« It was difficult, war and Russians, terrorists, wanted to end it in three days. If it ended so quickly, it could happen that it would be Latvia in a week. The war is very close and we all have to help Ukraine to win it, » he commented.