“I have players who are up front right now.” With this dramatic statement fat dani explained last Tuesday in ‘El programa de Ortega’ of Radio BRAND the situation in the Belarusian Meshkov Brest. Following the rrecommendation of the Spanish embassy, the technician from Valladolid left this city on the border with Ukraine this wednesday for return to the Segovian town of Nava de la Asuncinwhose team was promoted to the Asobal League.
Sanctioned by the European Handball Federation (EHF), el Meshkov was eliminated from the Champions League, in the absence of two days of the group stage. Before this sports situation and with the war escalation in Ukraine after the invasion of Russia, Gordo did not think twice about returning to Spain. At full speed, prepare the necessary papers to leave Belarus and his luggage after his first campaign as a coach.
The embassies told us to go home. The sanction of the EHF and the European Union, and the problems at the time of currency exchanges and transfers, it did not make any sense to continue here
“The season was difficult in our first year, but now we had a higher competitive rhythm, we are leaders in the league and there were two Champions League games left, but the team was playing better and better, like against Aalborg and Pick Szeged. The embassies told us to go back home. The sanction of the EHF and the European Union, and the problems when it came to currency exchanges and transfers, it made no sense to continue here”, he pointed out even from Brest for Marca.comwhere there is no atmosphere of war among its population.
Atrs leaves more than his team before the end of the season and a club that had bet on him What axis of the new sports project after arriving at his bench last summer to replace his compatriot Ral Alonso. “These have been the saddest days of my life. Many people stay here, but I have to run away and not look back,” lamented Gordo, who has not given up going back to the Meshkov. “If the situation improves, the club wants me to return, and I have given my word that I will do so, because they have behaved very well with me. I owe it to them,” he says.
They have been the saddest days of my life. A lot of people stay here, but I have to run away and not look back. If the situation improves, the club wants me to return, and I have given them my word that I will, because they have been very good to me. I own him
An ambitious project in suspense
Now the sporting future of the Belarusian club is uncertain due to a war that changed everything in a week. Because the Meshkov wanted to keep growing after closing the signings for the next course of the ‘Hispanics’ Agustin Casado, Sergey Hernndez and Gonzalo Prez Arce or also international Lazar Kukic and Marin Jelinic, Serbian and Croatian, respectively. “If the sanctions are maintained, next season a league will have to be made between Russia and Belarus. For the time being, a beautiful experience is over and a project that looked very good,” he concludes. Dani Gordo, excited and overwhelmed by everything he experienced in Belarus.
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