Now it is clear that Simon Jansson is returning to Kuzbass and fulfilling his contract despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Jansson left Edsbyn before last season and signed a two-year contract with the Russian top club.
According to the club’s social media, Simon Jansson has landed in Siberia, where he was received by a large number of jubilant fans.
“It’s unbelievable,” he says of the reception in a local news item according to Bandypuls.
During the summer, the star has been connected with several elite series clubs, but it will not be like that.
— I hope everyone understands that if I go to Kuzbass and play bandy and do my job, it has nothing to do with what I feel about what is happening in Ukraine. I don’t stand behind anything just because I go there and play bandy, Jansson said The Express in March.
Jansson’s return means that he and Finn Tuomas Määttä are currently the only two Nordic players in the Russian bandy league.
The Finn has chosen to return to the top team Neftyanik.
Neftyanik was one of the teams that lined up in the Z-shaped war symbol before rejection last season, when Määttä was in the lead.
Kuzbass also lined them up in the formation, but then Jansson chose to remain in the dressing room.
The Russian bandy season starts with cup games on August 13.