The head coach of Odessa’s "Chornomorets," Alexander Babich, made it clear that as part of the preseason preparations, his team will not hold friendly matches with opponents that have Russian teams in their sparring schedule.
"When one of the sparring partners emerged in our plans for the upcoming training camp, with whom our team had the opportunity to play in Turkey, we learned that, besides the match against "Chornomorets," a Russian club was also on their list of opponents. After that, the question of playing against them was instantly dropped," Babich said.