The famous Ukrainian defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy played the first official match for his new club, the Turkish Adana Demirspor.
The 33-year-old football player got into the starting lineup of Adana Demirspor for yesterday's match of the 1st round of the Turkish Championship with Giresunspor (3:2) and spent all 90 minutes of the game on the field. In stoppage time of the second half, Rakitskiy received a yellow card.
Interestingly, one of the three goals of Adana Demirspor in this match was on account of the former Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Younes Belanda.
Recall that the last club of Rakitsky was the Russian Zenit, the contract with which he broke after the start of the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. After that, the defender was actively matched with his native club, Shakhtar Donetsk, but in the end, the footballer signed a partnership with Adana Demirspor.