KOŠICE. The war has driven them out of their homeland. They identified a non permanent house a lot less than a hundred kilometers from the borders of their homeland. In Kosice.
Footballers of the Ukrainian workforce SC Dnipro-1 settled in the eastern Slovak metropolis, skilled on area fields and performed Ukrainian league matches in the border city of Uzhhorod.
Their residence stadium in the European Convention League, whose group stage kicks off Thursday with a match versus Dutchman Alkmaar, will be the Košice Football Arena.
At the very same time, Slovan Bratislava will enjoy against Lithuanian Žalgiris Vilnius.
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Center like in the hometown
The players of the Ukrainian workforce, which also includes legionaries from Brazil, Argentina and French of Algerian origin, have already settled in Košice. They will perform their next competitive match on Slovak soil.
A few months back, they dropped 1: 2 to Cyprus’ AEK Larnaca in the past qualifying round of the European League and, as they ended up not up to par in the second leg (: 3), they moved on to the team stage of the Convention League.
“Some of us have rented an condominium, other folks are in a lodge. Typical lifetime is not easy, but it is finding better. We currently really feel at home in Košice,” disclosed the exterior of Dnipro Oleksij Hucuľak.
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“I live in the metropolis center, I will not have to journey everywhere. The middle of Košice is in quite a few means identical to the metropolis I appear from. So which is alright with me,” reported the 24-calendar year-aged from Krasyliv in the Khmelnytskyi area, about 250 km east of Lviv.
In addition to the Košice football arena, Dnipro gamers are also making ready on the pitch in Mala Ida. They praise the standard circumstances and the local weather suits them.
“We have no troubles. Almost everything is high-quality,” claims assistant coach Valerij Horodov.
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They commenced the championship incredibly properly
It has been additional than 6 months considering the fact that February 24, when Russian troops invaded Ukraine. The large country of a lot more than 40 million folks was mired in a war conflict for the seventh month.
Persons there endure not only materially, but mentally as effectively. Not excluding the gamers.
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