Serhiy Kryvtsov: “In Lviv, we were booed when we went out for a warm-up before the match against Dynamo”

Shakhtar defender Serhiy Kryvtsov spoke about the team's move to Lviv in 2014.

“I didn’t hear and didn’t see with my own eyes what the residents of Luhansk and Donetsk felt for eight years. Two weeks before these events, I was already on vacation - I was in Zaporozhye. I didn't hear bombs or rockets then - I just read it on the news. But on February 24, I saw and heard all this with my family. It's very scary.

We started playing in Lviv. At first, they treated us very well, everything was fine, and people came. Then, in principle, there was no bad attitude from the fans towards us, but fewer and fewer people came to our matches.

The attitude of the people of Lvov towards us was quite good. We immediately thought that there might be some kind of negative attitude, but I did not feel this myself. Yes, there were moments when we played our home game with Dynamo, and we were booed when we went out to warm up. More people were rooting for Dynamo, but these are their fan sectors who are friends with each other (fans of Dynamo and Karpaty, - ed.). We understand this," Krivtsov said.