Sport has nothing to do with morality, because the Ukrainian Football Federation, the Polish Football Federation, UEFA, even FIFA are not moral. But athletes should have a moral outlook, even a sense of honor, especially in the face of this great right and wrong. On March 9, Beijing time, the Ukrainian Football Association officially announced that it had stripped former captain Anatoly Tymoshchuk of all honors for the national team, because the former captain not only did not have a problem for Ukraine and Russia, but even worked for Russian league club Zenit.
Although many of us may feel that sports should not be mixed with unrelated things, as athletes and even staff members, who have a clear nationality and a so-called sense of belonging, should condemn and resign from this job in an enemy country in the face of such a serious problem in Ukraine and Russia.
But as of now, Anatoly Tymoschuk has not only not spoken out on social media, but has even been playing for The Russian Premier League team Zenit, which is undoubtedly a selling act on another level.
In view of this, the Ethics and Fair Play Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association, after reviewing and verifying information about possible violations of the Code of Ethics and Fair Competition, decided to deprive the former captain of the Ukrainian national team of all the honors he had received at the national team level, as well as the coaching license, all the championships won in the domestic league and the national team roster.
Tymoszchuk, born on 30 March 1979, is the record holder for the number of matches in which the Ukrainian national team has played in its composition. He has won the Ukrainian Championship, the German and Russian Champions League, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup. During the periods 2007-2009 and 2013-2015 he played for the Russian football club Zenit St. Petersburg, where he has been coaching since 2017.
In terms of honor alone, Tymosshchuk is undoubtedly one of the best players in the history of the Ukrainian national team, but from the perspective of belonging to ghosts alone, he is not the player who loves Ukraine the most, or even a person who betrayed the formation for money or other values.
If we were to put ourselves in it, we would not only support this kind of behavior of the Ukrainian Football Federation, but even more extreme behavior, rather than some of the jokes that exist in the mother's domestic social media, after all, this is about the home country.