Here is a little try at it:

I want to tell you I went to the movies yesterday, with my husband. (I want to tell you about the movie I watched with my husband yesterday. ) We saw "Number 17." This film is about the first meeting of the Soviet hockey team with Team Canada. It was a great event in the field of international relations and world sport. I like sport, but as for hockey....I watch mainly the important competitions – the Olympic Games, world Championships and games with team 'Amur" (this is the team of our city) (could also write: ‘this is our city’s team’). Also I want to relate to you the power and interest of Russian cinema. That is why I decided to see this film. I have no regrets about it! It's my subjective opinion, the film is cool! (or “extremely well done!”) It was a very emotional film for me. I even applauded. I know there were some moments that were not quite true. But the idea itself was still great! We watched this match on the internet today. I think they are (were) real heroes. They were able to overcome their fear of the real champions, great players. The Soviet team came to the country where everybody looked on them as losers. And they were able to get up courage and won (win). Of course there were many great players on the Soviet team - Tretyak, Kharlamov, Zimin, Petrov and others, and of course players from the Canadian team. I hope our hockey will be just as powerful and interesting as it was in the USSR (or “Soviet times”). Please don't think that this is just an attempt to remember one moment from the past and bask in the reflected glory of the past. I think our sportsmen still do many great things! And I believe they will win again many times. I hope our young hockey players will want to be like the great men, like Kharlamov and others, not for money but for the love of hockey itself.

For sports in general you can see an expression like "for the love of the game (sport) itself" and this could go in the last sentence: "...not for money but for the love of the game itself." or "...for the love of the game alone." And so this same expression can be dropped in for whatever the sport being discussed is, without having to name it.