On February 24, Beijing time, due to the turmoil, the Ukrainian Premier League officially announced: the league was suspended.
At the same time, UEFA will meet on Friday, and the venue of this season's Champions League final will most likely change the venue, which was originally located in St. Petersburg Stadium in Russia.
According to foreign media, UEFA is considering changing the venue of the final to last year's European Championship final venue, London's Wembley Stadium.
The 2021-2022 Ukrainian Premier League was originally scheduled to end its winter break this weekend, but due to martial law in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Premier League can only be suspended for now.
After the 18th round of the tournament on December 11 last year, perhaps for Ukrainians, this winter break is particularly cold...
Currently leading the Ukrainian Premier League is the familiar Donetsk Miners, followed by the Ukrainian capital team, Dynamo Kiev. It can be said that these two teams are the giants of the Ukrainian National League, and in the European arena, fans can often see the figure of these two teams.
Shakhtar Donetsk has won the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian Cup 13 times. In the 08-09 season, miners won the Europa League. However, as a leading giant team, the Donetsk miners are not having a good time. It is reported that as early as 2014, the miners embarked on a "wandering journey".
Since Donetsk became the forefront of the exchange of fire between Ukrainian government forces and independent armed forces, the miners were forced to move away from their former home stadium "Donbass Arena" and temporarily relocated their home stadium to Lviv, Kharkov and Kiev in the west. Miners were forced to wander between three other Ukrainian cities for eight years.
With the independence of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and the "Luhansk People's Republic" on February 21, the road home for the miners seems to be even more difficult ...
And given the current tensions in Ukraine, the foreign aid who plays in the Ukrainian league wants to leave there, and the Brazilian foreign aid who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kiev posted on personal social media that they want to leave Ukraine." ”
It is reported that the players are currently gathering in kiev hotels with family and friends, and their voices seem to be more like a call for help.
"All my friends and relatives, we are in a serious situation right now. We were confined in Kiev, waiting for a plan to get out. We are in a hotel, please pray for us. ”
"We ask everyone to forward this video to the relevant departments, which is desperate. Border closures, bank closures, no fuel, there will be food shortages, no money, and we are waiting for a solution. ”
War, the harm is always civilians, last night's Europa League, there are already teams pulled out the "stop the war" banner, hoping to stop the war.