Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov spoke in connection with the decision to hold a friendly match between the national teams of Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in St. Petersburg. Earlier, the football associations of these two countries agreed to play such a match in November.
“Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, how much is a conscience worth?
When an aggressor terrorizes a neighboring country and threatens the whole world with hunger, cold and nuclear catastrophe, do you want to go out on the same field with them?
When the answers to these questions are obvious to all sane people, you support murder, violence and terror. Sports out of politics?
I thank Miralem Pjanic and Edin Dzeko for their position (both of them announced their refusal to take part in the match with Russia - ed.)”, Pyatov wrote on his page on the social network Instagram.