Despite the fact that the fighting did not stop at any time under the orders of General Winter, the Russian and Ukrainian league will resume tomorrow, Friday, after several months of winter break and only days after a year of war is finished.
Football, like other Ukrainians, longs for the coming of peace, but does not wait for a truce to be declared to return to the pitch.
Surprisingly, both championships start on March 3. The Russian one, included zenith as the undisputed leader, and the Ukrainian, with surprising Dnipro-1 at the top of the table.
AS TEACHED BY ZELENSKY
The Ukrainian league, which started in August and stops in December 2022, will resume on Friday with the match between Kryvbas and the Colossuseighth and sixth classified, respectively.
The match will be played in a small stadium with a capacity of less than 3,000 spectators Kryvyi Rihhometown of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Leaders Dnipro-1, who have 35 points, will play fifth-placed Oleksandria at home on Saturday in Nika Stadium (7,000 seats).
The Dnipropetrovsk club was founded in 2017 in the ruins of Dnipro which played in the 2015 Europa League final against Sevilla before disappearing four years later.
He Dynamo Kyiv will play its match at the Olympic, when the first round played home matches at the old Valeri Lobanovski stadium in the Ukrainian capital, which will turn 90 in 2023.
THE SHAKHTAR, NO MUDRYK
Shakhtar, ranked second with the same points as Dinamo (30), went to Lviv to face Metalist.
The “Miners” are used to playing in the safe capital of western Ukraine, as they have also played their home games here since 2014.
the stadium of arena of donbasswhich hosted the Euro 2012 semifinals between Spain and Portugal, is controlled by the Russian-annexed Donetsk People’s Republic.
The Donetsk team lost its main star, Mikhailo Mudryk, in the winter, who was transferred to a desperate Chelsea for 100 million euros.
The owner of Shakhtar, Rinat Akhmetov, announced that it would allocate a quarter of that money to treating the wounded in battle and helping the families of those killed on the front lines.
ABACAL’s SPARTAK challenges ZENIT
In Russia, with thirteen days remaining, all-powerful Zenit will take six points from Spaniard Guillermo Abascal’s Spartak Moscow and seven from Rostov’s Valery Karpin.
The team sponsored by the Gazprom gas consortium was strengthened in the winter with the Brazilian central Roberto Renanwho have been active in Corinthians.
In this way, he made up for the loss of his best defender, the Croatian Dejan Lovren, who returned to Lyon after playing in the World Cup in Qatar.
Spartak, who have not won the league since 2016, also announced in January the signing of Paraguayan central defender from Cerro Porteño, Alexis Duarte, and Portuguese defender from Benfica on loan at Basel, Tomás Tavares.
In addition, in a sample of the confidence of the Moscow club in the work of his coach, the Spartak renewed in Spanish until 2025.
WAR AND PEACE
While Russian football is at war with FIFA and UEFA due to their exclusion from European competitions due to the military campaign, the Ukrainian team is preparing for the qualification stage of Euro 2024.
Ukrainewho were left out of the World Cup in Qatar in the play-off against Wales, will face England on March 26 at the mythical Wembley.
While, according to the press, Russia He has no choice but to play in Germany and risks missing out on the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada.
At the moment, since they have almost nobody to play with, they will face Iraq on March 27, according to the newspaper “Sport-Express”.
Valery Karpin, the Russian coach, puts a good face on bad times. In fact, he was delighted that two Zenit stars, Malcom and Claudinho, received Russian passports from the president, Vladimir Putin, a week ago.
The local press is already rubbing shoulders with the fact that the Brazilians are playing in Russia after being marginalized by their country in the previous World Cup.
Source: La Verdad
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