Obolon director Oleksandr Riznichenko: "We cannot play such matches!"

Obolon director Oleksandr Riznichenko expressed his indignation at the scheduling of matches during hot hours in an interview withUV.

- "You can't hold such matches at 15:00 when the temperature is over +40 C. As they say, not even a leaf on the tree will move! The broadcast operator, who was standing on the offside camera, fainted because of this. We changed Vovkun in the 73rd minute for the same reason. And a few other players were on the verge. We have a cup game with Zvyagel on Wednesday, scheduled for 15:00. I have already appealed to the competent authorities to postpone it to a later time. I don't know what decision they will make. We are just ruining the players' health. God forbid if there are bigger problems.

The daylight hours are long now. There is no problem to put the match on at 19. If they are worried about the lighting, then let them schedule the matches on different days. At this temperature, I think any issue can be resolved. We would like to play against Zvyagel at least at 17:00. The players lose a lot of moisture, drink a lot of water, so they start to feel nauseous, dizzy and have other troubles," said Riznichenko.