Commentator Viktor Vatsko said in an interview "Ukrainian football ", which of him was a football player.
Viktor Vatsko-‒ I will say this: football did not lose anything from the fact that I did not become a professional player. I was a striker, something worked out. At school, at university, he always played for all national teams. He ran to the region for the Carpathians (Kamyanka-Buzka) and Rochyn (Sosnivka). There was even a real chance to become a pro - Garai from Zhovkva, who later made a splash in the Second League of the Ukrainian Championship, invited him to watch. By the way, the team was great - Postransky in the goal, Benyo and Jezersky in defense, I am still friends with them, football brings people together for life. At the screening in Garay, it seemed to me that I was doing everything well - I scored a little there. But the head coach of the team, Bohdan Blavatsky, had a different view. That's how I got into the "we'll call you" cohort of football players.
Already at Euro-2020, Bohdan Ihorovych was an expert at our FC "Football". We talked, remembered those times. He said that first of all he paid attention to my modest "physics" and that's why he didn't take me to the team. And now I thanked him for making that decision then. It was for the best. And later I also injured my knee. At that time, the capabilities of our medicine were modest. Different doctors made different diagnoses, one even gave a referral for meniscus surgery. Then, in the mid-90s, people with meniscus injuries were graduating, and I hadn't even started yet... So all this came together in a complex. I focused already on journalism, moreover, something was coming out. At the age of 19, while simultaneously studying at the university, I became the head of the sports department in the "Express" newspaper - the largest print publication in Western Ukraine at the time, Viktor said.
