Why is Shakhtar – Real Madrid played in Poland?

Tuesday’s game in between Shakhtar Donetsk Y real Madrid It won’t be played where everyone wants it, in Donetsk, but it will come in Poland. Specifically to Warsawin the stadium of legiawhere the Ukrainian team has maintained its base in recent months where Ukraine was invaded by the military of Russia.

It is a city, the capital of Poland, located more than 1,400 kilometers from Donetskabout 750 from Kyiv and 226 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. And that, without a doubt, is a territory that looks closely at what is happening in its neighboring country.

However, this is not a new situation for the orange team not being able to play in their city, Donetsksince conflict broke out in the region of donbass in 2014. A conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian militias denied the country’s EU membership and made the area a dangerous place to hold any sporting event.

Therefore, since then, the shaker It had different places until, unfortunately, he had to leave the country after living his last football moments in Kyiv. In fact, the meeting last year between real Madrid and the Ukrainian team, it is in the capital of the country, in the Olympic stadium where the whites also won the Thirteenth Champions League and it was played without any problems.

the ravages of war

Beyond the situation of the team and its headquarters, the team is also depleted of all players who have finished their time at the club fearing to suffer the reprisals of war. For this reason, it currently has a majority of Ukrainian players and no longer had the characteristic share of Brazilians, to whom it gave refuge during their first experience in Europe and where football players such as Douglas Costa, Fernandinho or Willian Borges.

Currently it has only four foreign players: Lucas Taylor (Brazil), Djurasek (Croatia), Kayode (Nigeria) and Traoré (Burkina Faso)