12-year-old shoots Donetsk

Until four months ago, Schachtjor Donetsk still played in the Champions League.

After the Russian attack on his country, the Ukrainian football master has now launched the "Schachtjor Global Tour for Peace" with charity games in several European countries at the beginning of this month. After the kick-off match at Olympiakos Piraeus in Greece, Ukrainians arrived at Lech Gdańsk in Poland on Thursday evening. Fenerbahce Istanbul (April 19) and Hajduk Split (May 1) are already fixed as further opponents.

Emotional highlight of the game in Gdansk was the award of a boy who was fled with his family from the city of Mariupol destroyed by Russian attacks. Both teams let the twelve-year-old Dmytro Keda shoot 3: 2 victory goal for Donetsk.

The FC Schachtjor and his opponents run during this tour with a logo on the jerseys, which shows the Ukrainian flag and the lettering "Stop" (stops the war "). With the million donations of the club owner Rinat Achmetov was in the European Championship Stadium of the West Ukrainian City of Lviv already built up a center that supports and supplies war refugees.

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"These days there are many things more important than football," said Schachtjors Italian coach Roberto de Zerbi. "But we are grateful to everyone who gives us the opportunity to play in different cities in Europe."

De Zerbi was just like the Croatian months agos director Darijo Srna and all foreigners of the club briefly fled shortly after the beginning of Russian attacks from Kyiv. Several Brazilian professionals like Alan Patrick or Vitao were transferred to clubs in their homeland over the past few days. De Zerbi and exclusively Ukrainian players, the training has meanwhile recaptured.