Shakhtar Academy graduate Mark Mampassi, who was sold to Lokomotiv Moscow for 3 million euros in January 2022 and now plays for Kortrijk in Belgium on loan, gave an interview to the club website, in which he did not dare to condemn actions of Russian occupiers.
Mark Mampassi. Photo: gettyimages.com
“I was in Turkey and was waiting for news about my transfer. My agent was negotiating with my club, Moscow Lokomotiv. And then I was suddenly informed that I could go to Belgium. I didn’t hesitate. I left immediately,” Mampassi said.
The defender now lives in the center of Kortrijk with his parents: “I like living here and playing football. You can enjoy walking around the city and the team at the club are fantastic. I can talk to everyone. I speak a little French and a little English.”
At the same time, the footballer’s grandmother remains living in Mampassi’s native Donetsk, where he was born in March 2003, although Mark himself does not want to talk about the war: “My grandmother still lives there. She doesn’t want to leave, but everything is going well for her. We are in constant contact. My father is Congolese. He was able to move to Europe to study thanks to a scholarship. It was not Paris, but Donetsk. There he studied economics at the university. My Ukrainian mother studied at the same institution with him. That’s where they met.”
Kortrijk leased Mampassi with an option to buy. The centerback has currently played 4 matches for the Belgians.
Let us note that Mampassi met the beginning of a full-scale military invasion of the Russian army into the territory of Ukraine in the status of a “locomotive” football player. Since then, the football player has not publicly reacted to the war and has still not condemned the Russian occupiers.
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2023-10-15 18:49:00
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