General Director of Shakhtar Donetsk Sergey Palkin said that the club decided to abandon the idea of holding a charity tour of the United States.
Photo: shakhtar.com“We were negotiating with MLS, there were certain agreements. But we started to "float" by dates - there was a mismatch. We understood that if we went to the USA, we would play a maximum of 2 games there. And purely economically, it turned out that we would be at a loss. We wanted to go there to give the money we earned to the army, to refugees, for the people of Ukraine.
And what should we give if we still have to? They just calculated and realized that economically we do not fall into the budget. If there were more games, we would go. We needed at least 4 matches, and then we would definitely go. Well, it didn't work out. We will prepare in Turkey,” Palkin said.
