Former Shakhtar and Ukraine national team defender Vyacheslav Shevchuk spoke about the importance of the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifying match with England for our team.
- It's really hard in Ukraine today. The whole world knows that we are under attack, missiles are coming from everywhere. Soccer is a way to show that we still have life, we deserve to live and live peacefully.
Teams practice as best they can. Players have to hide in shelters, in tunnels, when they hear the air raid. Games are suspended. The stress is enormous, we don't want it to continue. We hope to get back to normal after we defeat the enemy. It's hard to develop our soccer at this time, but we go forward, we still want to compete with the best," Shevchuk said in a commentary to the BBC.