Pain in football for the death of a Shakhtar Donetsk youth coach

The Russian military invasion in Ukrainian territory does not stop and the news that develops on that site is not encouraging. The world of sports is not oblivious to all the war events with news that in the last few hours has hit football hard: a Shakhtar Donetsk youth coach was killed in the middle of an attack.

An employee of ours died yesterday. A children’s coach. He was killed by shrapnel from a Russian shell. Russia is killing the Ukrainians. Stop this madness!”, expressed in his social networks Serhiy Palkin, general director of the entity that is located in the city of Donetsk.

The information on the death of this coach was provided by the manager in an extensive post addressed to owners, managers, and players of Russian soccer clubs with the aim of raising awareness in the environment: “Russia has committed a terrible and treacherous military attack against Ukraine. A country that each of you has visited and where you have always been welcome. A country where you have relatives, friends, acquaintances. The country where some of you were born. And this country, its people, is being destroyed today by the Russian army with all kinds of weapons.”

“Don’t stay silent, speak up! Otherwise, it will be his personal defeat. A defeat that all future generations will remember. A defeat that cannot be erased from the history of the world. And each of you will bear the blame and responsibility for the crimes committed,” he added.

The man who is in charge of Shakhtar also shared several photos of the damage caused by the Russian attacks on the buildings of different Ukrainian cities that were stalked by the military: “ Russia is going from being a nation that made an effort to defeat Nazism to a nation of terrorists, a nation of silent cowards. The whole world is watching you today. And the world is waiting for you to act to stop the madness. But you are afraid. In sports, fear is the feeling that reduces the probability of winning to zero. Your fear of speaking out against the war in Ukraine means cities destroyed, your fear means thousands and thousands of civilian deaths, your fear means children killed and millions of people maimed.

This crime on the youth coach, whose name was not known so far, adds to the deaths of soccer players Vitalii Sapylo, 21, and Dmytro Martynenko, 25, in information confirmed by the international soccer players union international (FIFPRO). Both performed in categories of the rise of that country: Sapylo died while facing the entry of Russian troops into Kyiv and Martynenko was hit by a bomb in the home he shared with his mother.