While Oleksandr Karavayev's contract with Dynamo Kyiv has not been extended, the Ukrainian national team player has become part of the humanitarian and sports project Mriya by the Restorator. Potato Army". Karavayev was announced as an ambassador of the team, which consists entirely of IDPs, internally displaced persons, and plays in the championship of Bucha district in Kyiv region.
Alexander Karavayev (right)Alexander Karavayev:
- "Supporting IDPs in this tragic time is a task for each of us. It's great that we are able to do this through football, which has always united people. Dubas and Vasylkov's Mriya project is unique in its kind, and I am very happy to be a part of it.
The idea to create Mriya belongs to the well-known blogger Dmytro Dubas, and the club was co-organised by TV presenter and former press attaché of Andriy Shevchenko Mykola Vasylkov.
Mykola Vasylkov:
- "We are very pleased to welcome Sasha Karavayev to our family, I have known him personally for a long time, I know his family from Kherson. Volunteers from our headquarters evacuated people from their house on an island in Kherson just yesterday. Karavayev is the second public ambassador of Mriya. The first one in May was TV presenter Igor Kondratyuk.
In the Bucha district's top league, Mriya defeated Vyshnia in Gostomel in their last game and is currently in 3rd place in the league. During each home match of the unique club, a humanitarian festival is held in the town, and the teams are brought out on the field by young IDPs from families living in the region.
