“We have war raging all over the country, we have children and women dying on a daily basis, and our infrastructure [is] being ruined by Russian barbarians,” Ukraine's 64-year-old head coach Oleksandr Petrakov said yesterday at a press conference in Cardiff after his team’s game against Wales. “The Russians want to hurt us and the Ukrainians are resisting and defending their land.
We just want your support. We just want you to understand what is happening back at home.” Soccer coaches don’t often use this sort of language after a game.
But then games like yesterday’s don’t happen very often. This was, on its face, a one-off knockout to decide who would play at the World Cup in Qatar this winter, and who would stay home.
But what home meant yesterday, what it meant for those Ukrainian players and their supporters and the coach who was told he was too old to be on the front lines but could still be a leader for his country, was something visceral.
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