gesture of Ukrainian players in the Euro Cup, game against Romania

Ukraine played the first game of group E of the Euro Cup this Monday in front of Romaniabut the least important thing was the game.

Ukrainian players They jumped onto the field of the Munich stadium wrapped in the flag of their countrytied around the neck, with which they sang the national anthem.

“One more gesture to draw international attention to the war in the country after the invasion of Russia two and a half years agoin one of the most powerful ‘speakers’ in the world, such as football and a Euro Cup,” said the EFE agency.

Sense moment

And he added: “One by one they went out onto the field with the emblem. The starting eleven: Andriy Lunin, Yukhym Konoplia, Illia Zabarnyi, Mykola Matviyenko, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Mykola Shaparenko, Taras Stepanenko, Viktor Tsygankov, Georgiy Sudakov, Mykhailo Mudryk and Artem Dovbyk.”

Also, intertwined, they listened to and sang the anthem before the start of the meeting in Munich. “Several of these footballers come from cities that have been destroyed or occupied by Russia. He remembered it Ukrainian Football Federation this week with a video on the occasion of the debut in the tournament, in which Mykola Shaparenko, Maksym Talovierov and Anatoliy Trubin narrated their feelings and what happened in their hometowns.