Shakhtar head coach Marino Pusic shared his impressions of working at the Donetsk club.
"We are not a circus team that just goes out on the pitch to do a few tricks. We travel a lot, but the main thing is that we are a close-knit family. We have one main goal - to make the people of Ukraine proud, to give people positive emotions for a moment. Footballers face pain and emotions every day because of the war.
Of course, we want to win the Ukrainian championship and the national cup. When Shakhtar play in European cups, the whole Ukraine cheers for us. Even in the trenches people watch our matches. This causes very deep emotions in the guys," Soccernews.nl quoted Pusic as saying.